Disadvantage vs Lack - What's the difference?
disadvantage | lack |
A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
A setback or handicap.
* Burke
* Palfrey
Loss; detriment; hindrance.
* Bancroft
To place at a disadvantage.
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(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
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A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
* Shakespeare
* 1994 , (Green Day),
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To be short (of'' or ''for something).
* Shakespeare
To be in want.
* Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
As verbs the difference between disadvantage and lack
is that disadvantage is to place at a disadvantage while lack is .As a noun disadvantage
is a weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.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 * disadvantageousnesslack
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let his lack of years be no impediment.
- I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''
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Antonyms
* glut * surplusVerb
(en verb)- My life lacks excitement.
- He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.
- The young lions do lack , and suffer hunger.