Handicap
Antonyms of HANDICAP
- allow, assist, impairment, relief, permit, command, forward, goad, further, freedom, help, head start, stimulant, ascendancy, facilitate, control, catalyst, restriction, privilege, benefit, start, margin, incentive, mastery, handmaiden, blessing, asset, advance, advantage, supremacy, superiority, assistance, impetus, shortcoming, better, spur, stimulus, boost, release, aid, promote, opportunity, limitation, transcendence, support, jump, disadvantage, break, lead, plus, drawback, vantage, prerogative, encourage, predominance.
Examples of usage:
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Although not that person whom numerous men of his acquaintance had begun affectionately to handicap with the perilous nickname of " the ladies' man," he was thinking of no less than five ladies; two of one name and three of another. "Kincaid's Battery" by George W. Cable
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This, however, is something which I refuse to accept as a burden and a handicap. "The Prairie Mother" by Arthur Stringer
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If you find it a handicap being engaged to me... "The Adventures of Sally" by P. G. Wodehouse
