What does handicap mean?
Handicap means Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders..
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/ˈhændikæp/ · noun
Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders..
Age is often a handicap.
Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
The older boy won, even though his opponent had been granted a handicap of five meters.
A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook.
Eventually the elephant and camel were depatched by themselves with two laps start of the bicyclist and horse, the motor car being scratch. It was a sensational race owing to the conduct of the field, but on the handicap the elephant won, bicycle second, motor car third.
Here some of us fell to handicap, a sport that I never knew before, which was very good.
The candidate was handicapped by her lack of experience.
Grandpa Andy would buy the racing form the day ahead of time so he could handicap the race before he even arrived at the track.
Use handicap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Handicap means Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders..
Common synonyms include hand-in-cap, impediment, hindrance, invalid.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Age is often a handicap.
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