Disadvantage vs Inconvenient - What's the difference?
disadvantage | inconvenient |
A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
A setback or handicap.
* Burke
* Palfrey
Loss; detriment; hindrance.
* Bancroft
To place at a disadvantage.
* 2013 September 28, , "
(obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
*, II.14:
(obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
As nouns the difference between disadvantage and inconvenient
is that disadvantage is a weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con while inconvenient is an inconsistency, an incongruity.As a verb disadvantage
is to place at a disadvantage.As an adjective inconvenient is
not convenient.disadvantage
English
Alternative forms
* disadvauntage (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.
- My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.
- I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you.
- Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage .
- They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public.
Synonyms
* (an undesirable characteristic) afterdeal, con, drawback, downside * (a handicap) afterdeal, weaknessAntonyms
* advantageVerb
(disadvantag)- They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
Synonyms
* tell againstDerived terms
* disadvantageous * disadvantageously * disadvantageousnessinconvenient
English
Antonyms
* convenientNoun
(en noun)- To provide against this inconvenient , when the Stoikes were demanded whence the election of two indifferent things commeth into our soulethey answer, that this motion of the soule is extraorainarie and irregular comming into us by a strange, accidentall and casuall impulsion.
