Advantage
Advantage noun - The more favorable condition or position in a competition.
Usage example: your experience volunteering at the hospital will put you at an advantage when you're applying for a job there
Hindrance
Hindrance noun - Something that makes movement or progress difficult.
Usage example: made a survey of all the hindrances to wheelchair access, such as curbs and stairs
Nearby Word: hinder
How words are described
| physical | physical advantage | physical hindrance |
| complete | complete advantage | complete hindrance |
| actual | actual advantage | actual hindrance |
| real | real advantage | real hindrance |
| Other adjectives: massive, big, extreme, great, serious, little, slight, main, major, useful, minor, additional, significant, greatest. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Similar to Final Fantasy Tactics, the landscape can be a hindrance or an advantage to the player.
Source: Geo Effects - Crittendon was just too incompetent and genre-blind to be anything less then a complete hindrance, though the clever spies would occasionally manage to use his bumbling stupidity to their advantage.
Source: The Obi-Wannabe -
Latrice Royale in particular became a fan favorite for her flawless presentation and using her size as an advantage and not a hindrance or excuse, and won Miss Congeniality for her good nature and being the Team Mom.
Source: Series / RuPaul's Drag Race
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Hindrance and Advantage. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/advantage/hindrance
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