Disadvantage vs Preponderate - What's the difference?
disadvantage | preponderate |
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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To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
* Glanvill
To overpower by stronger or moral power.
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(obsolete) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
* Fuller
To exceed in weight; hence, to predominate
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In lang=en terms the difference between disadvantage and preponderate
is that disadvantage is to place at a disadvantage while preponderate is to exceed in weight; hence, to predominate.As verbs the difference between disadvantage and preponderate
is that disadvantage is to place at a disadvantage while preponderate is to outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.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 * disadvantageousnesspreponderate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(preponderat)- An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the centre of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes.
- The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.
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