Used in a Sentence

drawbacks

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for drawbacks.

Editorial note

I'm not saying the gravitylight is a good replacement, just that battery powered flashlights do have some drawbacks.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of drawbacks gathered in one view.

noun

A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.

noun

A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.

noun

The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette, viewed as a skill of the practised smoker.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for drawbacks.

noun

A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.

noun

A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.

noun

The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette, viewed as a skill of the practised smoker.

Example sentences

1

I'm not saying the gravitylight is a good replacement, just that battery powered flashlights do have some drawbacks.

2

What you call drawbacks is what you experience in your childhood and what you think today's child are missing.

3

So you can have all the benefits of flash authoring, without the drawbacks (killing your customer's batteries).

4

Because it has very few advantages over it's competitors and tons of drawbacks.

5

But pretending that there are no drawbacks would be dumb and blinding oneself.

6

You do not need build tools to write JavaScript and depending on which tools you use there are significant drawbacks to using any them.

7

But to answer your question, there are a few benefits and drawbacks of Kotlin as a language and a platform: + World class IDE support.

8

You have none of the benefits and many of the drawbacks.

9

Easy solution with no drawbacks: don't move to San Francisco.

10

It's certainly convenient for getting started, but I think he wants to say that the drawbacks of choosing PHP outweigh the benefits.

11

Looking younger has many advantages, but also some drawbacks.

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> What you call drawbacks is what you experience in your childhood and what you think today's child are missing.

Quote examples

1

I was referring to the "higher level languages and run standalone" class of solution and I agree with you about their drawbacks (hard to use).

2

Currently, the most popular way of implementing "native apps" in the browser are Single Page Applications, which breaks the web paradigm and hence have practical drawbacks such as the inability to open some resources in a new tab or to bookmark them.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use drawbacks in a sentence?

I'm not saying the gravitylight is a good replacement, just that battery powered flashlights do have some drawbacks.

What does drawbacks mean?

A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.

What part of speech is drawbacks?

drawbacks is commonly used as noun.