Drawback vs Disadvantage - What's the difference?
drawback | disadvantage |
A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
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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Disadvantage is a antonym of drawback.
Disadvantage is a synonym of drawback.
As nouns the difference between drawback and disadvantage
is that drawback is a disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away while disadvantage is a weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.As a verb disadvantage is
to place at a disadvantage.drawback
English
Noun
(en noun)- Poor fuel economy is a common drawback among larger vehicles.
Anagrams
*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.