Vantage vs Disadvantage - What's the difference?
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An advantage.
A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
* William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of Richard the Second ActV, scene III:
(dated, tennis) (score after deuce)
(obsolete) To profit; to aid.
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, , "
As nouns the difference between vantage and disadvantage
is that vantage is an advantage while disadvantage is a weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.As verbs the difference between vantage and disadvantage
is that vantage is to profit; to aid while disadvantage is to place at a disadvantage.vantage
English
Alternative forms
* vauntage (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!
Verb
(vantag)- (Spenser)
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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.