What are the opposite words for advantage?
Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings to a certain word. For the word "advantage," the antonyms are disadvantages, downside, and weakness. A disadvantage is a condition that puts someone at a disadvantage compared to others. The downside is the negative aspect or drawback of something. And weakness is the lack of strength or power to accomplish something. Understanding the antonyms of advantage is important in evaluating situations objectively. By recognizing the disadvantages or weaknesses, one can make better-informed decisions and develop a realistic understanding of the situation. It is essential to consider both the advantages and disadvantages to make wise choices.
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- social
- hopelessness
- wrong
- error
- evil
- blemish
- attribute
- pain
- limit
- control
- adversity
- difficulty
- disease
- bane
- punishment
- weakness
- ruin
- shortage
- poverty
- detraction
- depression
- loss
- hindrance
- shaft
- guilt
- imperfection
- restraint
- blow
- failing
- deception
- duty
- failure
- pitfall
- crisis
- pity
- damage
- lack
- predicament
- disappointment
- awkwardness
- bar
- barrier
- blockage
- burden
- care
- catch
- check
- contingency
- dearth
- default
- defect
- desperation
- detriment
- disability
- disadvantage
- discomfort
- discouragement
- disquiet
- disservice
- distress
- epidemic
- fault
- flaw
- glitch
- grievance
- handicap
- hole
- ill
- impediment
- imposition
- inadequacy
- incommodiousness
- infection
- inhibition
- lapse
- letdown
- millstone
- mischief
- misery
- misplacement
- mournfulness
- nuisance
- oversight
- passion
- pest
- pinch
- problem
- scantiness
- snag
- speck
- torment
- trial
- twinge
- unease
- worry
- abuse
- anxiety
- bad luck
- blockade
- bother
- bug
- calamity
- catastrophe
- clog
- contagion
- curse
- deficiency
- deprivation
- disaster
- embarrassment
- encumbrance
- exigency
- frailty
- gloom
- grief
- hardship
- harm
- headache
- hitch
- hurt
- inconvenience
- injury
- juncture
- knot
- leak
- liability
- melancholy
- misadventure
- misfortune
- mistake
- muddle
- obstruction
- outrage
- pickle
- plague
- plight
- pressure
- sadness
- setback
- sin
- sorrow
- strait
- suffering
- tragedy
- tribulation
- trouble
- turning point
- undoing
- weight
- physical hurting, injuring
- upset
- benefit, favored position or circumstance
- disadvantage(s)
- bad luck, situation
- hurt condition; something that causes hurt
- infirmity
- worry, tension
- rotten break
- restriction
- cause of misery
- rod; straight length of material
- obstruction to goal
- quandary
- mark; flaw
- fiasco
- trouble, inconvenience
- obstacle
- computer glitch
- mental weight; stress
- disaster; tragedy
- personal interest, concern
- misfortune/mishap
- calamity; unhappy conclusion
- trick, hidden disadvantage
- dilemma
- restraint, hindrance
- difficult situation
- chance happening; possibility
- command, mastery
- penalty, sacrifice
- critical situation
- misfortune wished upon someone
- injury, loss
- nonfeasance
- insolvency
- deficit
- stumbling block
- dissatisfaction
- stalemate, impasse
- insufficiency, scarcity
- failure; want
- blemish, imperfection
- imperfection, inadequacy
- shortage of something needed, required
- low spirits; despair
- taking, keeping away; need
- misrepresentation; slander
- problem; situation requiring great effort
- affliction
- disadvantage, restriction
- hurt, loss
- difficulty, trouble
- saddening situation; letdown
- accident, trouble
- irritation, pain
- ailment, affliction
- worry; mental upset
- discontent, unhappiness
- unkindness
- pain, agony
- a negative aspect of a situation
- bad situation
- responsibility, assignment
- humiliation, shame
- crisis, danger
- widespread disease
- badness, immorality; disaster
- lapse, shortcoming
- drawback
- blame, sin; mistake
- difficult or ticklish situation
- personal imperfection
- weakness, flaw
- mental suffering
- complaint, gripe
- blame; bad conscience over responsibility
- personal burden
- injury, evil
- obstruction, difficulty
- problem, difficulty
- barrier, obstacle
- injury; damage
- obstruction, hindrance
- limitation
- insubstantiality
- shortage, defect, inability
- bother, trouble
- hurt, harm
- troublesome situation
- deficiency, need
- opening; seepage through opening
- burden, debt
- restraint, disadvantage
- misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost
- breakdown, failure
- difficulty, problem
- depression, sadness
- bad luck, mishap
- trouble, damage
- pain, mental or physical
- confused state
- annoyance; annoying person
- impediment, barrier
- obstacle, impediment
- atrocity, evil
- failure, omission
- physical suffering
- ache, twinge
- strong emotion
- person or thing that presents problem
- sticky situation
- tight pressing
- hazard, trap
- feeling of mercy toward another
- disease that is widespread
- dilemma, difficulty; situation
- want; extreme need, often financial
- demand, difficulty
- difficulty; bad situation
- unhappiness, depression
- plague, torment
- bad or embarrassing situation
- long part of something
- weak point
- illegal or immoral action
- complication in situation
- extreme upset, grief
- crisis, difficulty
- contamination, corruption
- severe mental distress
- trouble, big problem
- annoyance, worry
- sharp pain
- unsoundness
- destruction, misfortune
- lack, need
- defect, proneness
- anxiety, trouble
- offense, sin
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- social
- hopelessness
- wrong
- error
- evil
-
blemish
- beauty spot,
- blackhead,
- cicatrix,
- hickey,
- macula,
- nevus,
- nodule,
- Cicatrices,
- Maculae,
- Nevi,
- whiteheads,
- blackheads,
- beauty spots,
- blot landscape,
- blot on landscape,
- blot on the landscape,
- blot the landscape,
- dis coloration,
- dis colorations,
- dis grace,
- dis graces,
- dis honor,
- dis honors,
- dis-coloration,
- dis-colorations,
- dis-grace,
- dis-graces,
- dis-honor,
- dis-honors,
- lentigines,
- maculations.
- attribute
- pain
- limit
-
control
- containment,
- predomination,
- subjection,
- containments,
- de termination,
- de terminations,
- de-termination,
- de-terminations,
- driver seat,
- drivers seat,
- pre domination,
- pre dominations,
- pre-domination,
- pre-dominations,
- predominations,
- sub ordination,
- sub ordinations,
- sub-ordinations,
- super visions,
- super-vision,
- super-visions,
- wire pulling,
- wire pullings.
- adversity
- difficulty
-
disease
- ill health,
- Sickliness,
- dis ease,
- dis eases,
- dis temper,
- dis tempers,
- dis-ease,
- dis-eases,
- dis-temper,
- dis-tempers,
- endemics,
- flus,
- ill healths,
- in disposition,
- in dispositions,
- in-disposition,
- in-dispositions,
- pathosis,
- sicklinesses,
- un healthiness,
- un healthinesses,
- un-healthiness,
- un-healthinesses,
- unhealthinesses.
- bane
- punishment
- weakness
-
ruin
- crackup,
- crackups,
- crumblings,
- de generation,
- de generations,
- de-generation,
- de-generations,
- dis integration,
- dis integrations,
- dis repair,
- dis repairs,
- dis solution,
- dis solutions,
- dis-integration,
- dis-integrations,
- dis-repair,
- dis-repairs,
- dis-solution,
- dis-solutions,
- over throw,
- over throws,
- over-throw,
- over-throws,
- sub version,
- sub versions,
- sub-version,
- sub-versions,
- the end,
- the ends.
- shortage
- poverty
-
detraction
- muckraking,
- scandalmongering,
- pejoratives,
- backstabbings,
- de rogation,
- de rogations,
- de traction,
- de tractions,
- de-rogation,
- de-rogations,
- de-traction,
- de-tractions,
- dis esteem,
- dis esteems,
- dis-esteem,
- dis-esteems,
- in justices,
- in-justice,
- in-sinuation,
- in-sinuations,
- libelings,
- malignings,
- muckrakings,
- running downs,
- scandalmongerings,
- traducings.
-
depression
- abjection,
- blahs,
- bleakness,
- cheerlessness,
- dispiritedness,
- lowness,
- melancholia,
- woefulness,
- Abjectness,
- Disconsolation,
- Melancholias,
- the blues,
- abjections,
- abjectnesses,
- bleaknesses,
- cheerlessnesses,
- dis consolation,
- dis consolations,
- dis-consolation,
- dis-consolations,
- disconsolations,
- dispiritednesses,
- gloominesses,
- heaviness heart,
- lownesses,
- lugubriosities,
- lugubriosity,
- woefulnesses.
- loss
- hindrance
- shaft
-
guilt
- blameworthiness,
- self-reproach,
- Malefaction,
- blameworthinesses,
- male faction,
- male factions,
- male-faction,
- male-factions,
- malefactions,
- mis behavior,
- mis behaviors,
- mis steps,
- mis-behavior,
- self condemnation,
- self condemnations,
- self reproach,
- self reproaches,
- self-condemnations,
- selfcondemnation,
- selfcondemnations,
- selfreproach,
- selfreproaches.
- imperfection
- restraint
- blow
- failing
- deception
- duty
- failure
- pitfall
- crisis
- pity
- damage
- lack
- predicament
-
disappointment
- letdown,
- setback,
- bringdown,
- bringdowns,
- de feat,
- de feats,
- de-feat,
- de-feats,
- dis appointment,
- dis appointments,
- dis-appointment,
- dis-appointments,
- flash in pan,
- flash the pan,
- in efficacies,
- in efficacy,
- in-efficacies,
- in-efficacy,
- mis calculation,
- mis-calculation,
- mis-calculations,
- old one two,
- old one twos,
- old one-twos,
- old onetwo,
- old onetwos.
-
awkwardness
- inopportuneness,
- painfulness,
- untimeliness,
- ticklishness,
- thorniness,
- in opportuneness,
- in opportunenesses,
- in-opportunenesses,
- painfulnesses,
- thorninesses,
- ticklishnesses,
- un comfortableness,
- un comfortablenesses,
- un pleasantness,
- un pleasantnesses,
- un timeliness,
- un-pleasantness,
- un-pleasantnesses,
- un-timeliness,
- uncomfortablenesses.
-
bar
- alehouse,
- beer garden,
- courtroom,
- crossbar,
- crosspiece,
- law practice,
- legal profession,
- rail,
- rathskeller,
- restraint,
- watering hole,
- crosspieces,
- palings,
- courtrooms,
- spokes,
- Cross piece,
- alehouses,
- beer gardens,
- blank wall,
- blank walls,
- cross bar,
- cross bars,
- cross pieces,
- cross-bar,
- cross-bars,
- cross-piece,
- cross-pieces,
- crossbars,
- drinkeries,
- drinkery,
- law practices,
- legal professions,
- rathskellers,
- watering holes.
- barrier
-
blockage
- clog.
- burden
- care
- catch
- check
- contingency
- dearth
- default
- defect
- desperation
- detriment
-
disability
- invalidity,
- dis qualification,
- dis qualifications,
- dis-qualification,
- dis-qualifications,
- in capacity,
- in competencies,
- in competency,
- in experience,
- in experiences,
- in validities,
- in validity,
- in-capacities,
- in-capacity,
- in-competencies,
- in-competency,
- in-experience,
- in-experiences,
- in-validities,
- in-validity,
- invalidities,
- un fitness,
- un fitnesses,
- un-fitness,
- un-fitnesses.
- disadvantage
- discomfort
- discouragement
- disquiet
- disservice
- distress
- epidemic
-
fault
- answerability,
- slip up,
- answerabilities,
- evil doing,
- evil doings,
- in accuracies,
- in accuracy,
- in-accuracies,
- in-accuracy,
- in-discretions,
- loss innocence,
- loss of innocence,
- mis conduct,
- mis conducts,
- mis cue,
- mis cues,
- mis demeanor,
- mis demeanors,
- mis-conduct,
- mis-conducts,
- mis-cue,
- mis-cues,
- mis-demeanor,
- mis-demeanors,
- slip ups,
- slip-up,
- slip-ups.
- flaw
- glitch
- grievance
- handicap
- hole
- ill
- impediment
- imposition
-
inadequacy
- defectiveness,
- inadequateness,
- inaptness,
- skimpiness,
- defectivenesses,
- faultinesses,
- in adequacies,
- in adequacy,
- in adequateness,
- in adequatenesses,
- in aptness,
- in competence,
- in effectiveness,
- in effectivenesses,
- in effectualness,
- in effectualnesses,
- in efficiencies,
- in efficiency,
- in-adequacies,
- in-adequacy,
- in-adequateness,
- in-adequatenesses,
- in-aptness,
- in-competences,
- in-effectiveness,
- in-effectivenesses,
- in-effectualness,
- in-efficiencies,
- in-efficiency,
- inadequatenesses,
- inaptnesses,
- skimpinesses,
- un suitableness,
- un suitablenesses,
- un-suitableness,
- un-suitablenesses.
- incommodiousness
- infection
- inhibition
- lapse
- letdown
- millstone
- mischief
- misery
- misplacement
- mournfulness
- nuisance
- oversight
- passion
- pest
- pinch
- problem
- scantiness
- snag
- speck
- torment
- trial
- twinge
- unease
- worry
- abuse
-
anxiety
- butterfly,
- cold sweat,
- fretfulness,
- unease,
- willies,
- worriment,
- Butterflies,
- Nail Biting,
- all overs,
- allovers,
- ants in pants,
- ants pants,
- cold sweats,
- dis quietude,
- dis quietudes,
- dis-quietude,
- dis-quietudes,
- fore boding,
- fore bodings,
- fore-boding,
- fretfulnesses,
- mis giving,
- mis trust,
- mis trusts,
- mis-giving,
- mis-trust,
- nail-biting,
- nail-bitings,
- nailbiting,
- pins needles,
- un certainties,
- un certainty,
- un easiness,
- un-certainties,
- un-certainty,
- un-easiness,
- un-easinesses.
-
bad luck
- hard cheese,
- hard time,
- ill luck,
- hard luck,
- bad-luck,
- devil luck,
- devil lucks,
- devil own luck,
- devil own lucks,
- devil's luck,
- devil's lucks,
- devil's own luck,
- devil's own lucks,
- devils luck,
- devils lucks,
- devils own luck,
- devils own lucks,
- hard cheeses,
- hard lucks,
- ill lucks,
- mis chance,
- mis chances,
- rotten luck,
- rotten lucks,
- tough break,
- tough breaks.
- blockade
- bother
- bug
- calamity
- catastrophe
- clog
- contagion
- curse
- deficiency
- deprivation
- disaster
- embarrassment
- encumbrance
- exigency
- frailty
- gloom
- grief
- hardship
- harm
- headache
- hitch
- hurt
-
inconvenience
- cumbersomeness,
- incommodiousness,
- troublesomeness,
- unwieldiness,
- Unhandiness,
- bothersomeness,
- bothersomenesses,
- cumbersomenesses,
- in convenience,
- in conveniences,
- in-convenience,
- in-conveniences,
- troublesomenesses,
- un handiness,
- un handinesses,
- un timelinesses,
- un-handiness,
- un-handinesses,
- un-timelinesses,
- unhandinesses,
- untimelinesses,
- unwieldinesses.
- injury
- juncture
- knot
- leak
- liability
- melancholy
- misadventure
- misfortune
- mistake
-
muddle
- ataxia,
- Ataxias,
- dis arrangement,
- dis arrangements,
- dis array,
- dis arrays,
- dis organization,
- dis organizations,
- dis-arrangement,
- dis-arrangements,
- dis-array,
- dis-arrays,
- dis-organization,
- dis-organizations,
- foul ups,
- foul-up,
- foul-ups,
- foulup,
- foulups,
- mess a half,
- mess a halves,
- mess and a half,
- mess and a halves,
- mess and half,
- mess and halves,
- mess half,
- mess halves,
- rat nest,
- rat's nest,
- rats nest,
- rats nests.
- obstruction
- outrage
- pickle
- plague
- plight
- pressure
- sadness
- setback
-
sin
- gluttony,
- tort,
- ungodliness,
- unrighteousness,
- wrongness,
- Gluttonies,
- Veniality,
- Torts,
- evil-doing,
- dis obedience,
- dis obediences,
- dis-obedience,
- dis-obediences,
- evil-doings,
- un godliness,
- un godlinesses,
- un righteousness,
- un righteousnesses,
- un-godliness,
- un-righteousness,
- un-righteousnesses,
- unrighteousnesses,
- venialities,
- wrongnesses.
- sorrow
- strait
-
suffering
- woe.
- tragedy
- tribulation
- trouble
- turning point
- undoing
-
weight
- adiposity,
- counterweight,
- heft,
- pendulum,
- poundage,
- sandbag,
- sinker,
- tonnage,
- weightiness,
- Forcibleness,
- Pendulums,
- Counter weight,
- hefts,
- sinkers,
- counter-balance,
- adiposities,
- counter balance,
- counter balances,
- counter poise,
- counter poises,
- counter weights,
- counter-balances,
- counter-poise,
- counter-poises,
- counter-weight,
- counter-weights,
- counterweights,
- g factor,
- g factors,
- g-factors,
- gfactors,
- sandbags,
- sub stance,
- sub stances,
- sub-stance,
- sub-stances,
- tonnages,
- weightinesses.
- physical hurting, injuring
- upset
- benefit, favored position or circumstance
- disadvantage(s)
- bad luck, situation
- hurt condition; something that causes hurt
- infirmity
- worry, tension
- rotten break
- restriction
-
cause of misery
- bane.
-
rod; straight length of material
- bar.
- obstruction to goal
- quandary
-
mark; flaw
- blot.
- fiasco
- trouble, inconvenience
- obstacle
-
computer glitch
- bug.
- mental weight; stress
- disaster; tragedy
-
personal interest, concern
- care.
- misfortune/mishap
- calamity; unhappy conclusion
- trick, hidden disadvantage
- dilemma
- restraint, hindrance
- difficult situation
- chance happening; possibility
- command, mastery
-
penalty, sacrifice
- cost.
- critical situation
- misfortune wished upon someone
- injury, loss
- nonfeasance
-
insolvency
- implosion,
- nonperformance,
- nonsuccess,
- Non-performance,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- implosions,
- in solvency,
- in-solvencies,
- in-solvency,
- lead balloon,
- lead balloons,
- non performance,
- non performances,
- non success,
- non successes,
- non-successes,
- nonperformances,
- nonsuccesses,
- sinking ship,
- sinking ships,
- total loss,
- total losses.
- deficit
- stumbling block
-
dissatisfaction
- lamentation,
- querulousness,
- dis approval,
- dis approvals,
- dis favor,
- dis favors,
- dis inclination,
- dis inclinations,
- dis liking,
- dis likings,
- dis relish,
- dis relishes,
- dis satisfaction,
- dis satisfactions,
- dis taste,
- dis tastes,
- dis-approval,
- dis-approvals,
- dis-favor,
- dis-favors,
- dis-inclination,
- dis-inclinations,
- dis-liking,
- dis-likings,
- dis-relish,
- dis-relishes,
- dis-satisfaction,
- dis-satisfactions,
- dis-taste,
- dis-tastes,
- dislikings,
- malcontentment,
- malcontentments,
- malcontents,
- querulousnesses.
- stalemate, impasse
- insufficiency, scarcity
- failure; want
- blemish, imperfection
- imperfection, inadequacy
- shortage of something needed, required
- low spirits; despair
- taking, keeping away; need
- misrepresentation; slander
- problem; situation requiring great effort
- affliction
- disadvantage, restriction
- hurt, loss
- difficulty, trouble
- saddening situation; letdown
- accident, trouble
- irritation, pain
- ailment, affliction
- worry; mental upset
- discontent, unhappiness
- unkindness
- pain, agony
- a negative aspect of a situation
- bad situation
-
responsibility, assignment
- duty.
- humiliation, shame
- crisis, danger
- widespread disease
-
badness, immorality; disaster
- evil.
- lapse, shortcoming
- drawback
- blame, sin; mistake
-
difficult or ticklish situation
- fix.
- personal imperfection
- weakness, flaw
- mental suffering
- complaint, gripe
- blame; bad conscience over responsibility
- personal burden
-
injury, evil
- harm.
- obstruction, difficulty
- problem, difficulty
- barrier, obstacle
-
injury; damage
- hurt.
- obstruction, hindrance
- limitation
- insubstantiality
- shortage, defect, inability
- bother, trouble
- hurt, harm
-
troublesome situation
- jam.
-
deficiency, need
- lack.
-
opening; seepage through opening
- leak.
- burden, debt
- restraint, disadvantage
-
misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost
- loss.
- breakdown, failure
- difficulty, problem
- depression, sadness
- bad luck, mishap
- trouble, damage
- pain, mental or physical
- confused state
- annoyance; annoying person
- impediment, barrier
- obstacle, impediment
- atrocity, evil
- failure, omission
-
physical suffering
- pain.
-
ache, twinge
- pang.
- strong emotion
-
person or thing that presents problem
- pest.
- sticky situation
- tight pressing
- hazard, trap
-
feeling of mercy toward another
- pity.
- disease that is widespread
- dilemma, difficulty; situation
- want; extreme need, often financial
- demand, difficulty
- difficulty; bad situation
- unhappiness, depression
- plague, torment
- bad or embarrassing situation
- long part of something
- weak point
-
illegal or immoral action
- sin.
-
complication in situation
- snag.
- extreme upset, grief
- crisis, difficulty
- contamination, corruption
- severe mental distress
- trouble, big problem
- annoyance, worry
- sharp pain
- unsoundness
- destruction, misfortune
-
lack, need
- want.
- defect, proneness
- anxiety, trouble
- offense, sin
-
Other relevant words
- catch,
- check,
- constraint,
- damage,
- destruction,
- disability,
- disparity,
- failing,
- harm,
- hindrance,
- hitch,
- imbalance,
- inequality,
- inhibitor,
- lurch,
- restraint,
- rub,
- ruin,
- setback,
- shortcoming,
- stranglehold,
- trammel,
- unevenness,
- waste.
-
Other antonyms
- care,
- control,
- dearth,
- defect,
- deficiency,
- discouragement,
- fault,
- fix,
- foible,
- frailty,
- impairment,
- inadequacy,
- limitation,
- mischief,
- miss,
- neglect,
- pass,
- passion,
- poverty,
- strike,
- vice,
- want.
Antonym of the day
leading the way
- Antonyms:
- abandon, follow, misguide.
