Injury vs Disadvantage - What's the difference?
injury | disadvantage | Related terms |
damage to the body of a human or animal
violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests
(archaic) injustice
(obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
*, II.12:
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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Injury is a related term of disadvantage.
As nouns the difference between injury and disadvantage
is that injury is damage to the body of a human or animal while disadvantage is a weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.As verbs the difference between injury and disadvantage
is that injury is (obsolete) to wrong, to injure while disadvantage is to place at a disadvantage.injury
English
(wikipedia injury)Alternative forms
* enjuryNoun
(injuries)- The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
- Slander is an injury to the character.
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* harm * hurt * damage * loss * mischief * impairment * detriment * wrong * evil * injusticeVerb
- The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.
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* *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.
