A disadvantage is a factor which makes someone or something less useful, acceptable, or successful than other people or things. His two main rivals suffer the disadvantage of having been long-term political exiles the advantages and disadvantages of allowing priests to marry. advantage
If something is to your disadvantage or works to your disadvantage, it creates difficulties for you. A snap election would be to their disadvantage. something that causes problems, or that makes someone or something less likely to be successful or effective advantage disadvantage of. to make someone less likely to be successful or to put them in a worse situation than others
Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury
the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm; "This rule clearly disadvantages me
If you are at a disadvantage, you have a problem or difficulty that many other people do not have, which makes it harder for you to be successful. The children from poor families were at a distinct disadvantage