Synonyms for drawback
ˈdrɔˌbækdraw·back

Princeton's WordNet

1. drawbacknoun

   the quality of being a hindrance

   "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"

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1. • Disadvantage

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1. drawbacknoun

   Synonyms:
   disadvantage, detriment, injury, damage, faultiness, imperfection, deficiency

2. drawbacknoun

   Synonyms:
   discount, allowance, deduction, reduction, rebate, abatement

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1. drawbacknoun

   Synonyms:
   disadvantage, hindrance, defect, imperfection, rebate, deduction, discount

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1. List of paraphrases for "drawback":

   disadvantage, drawbacks, inconvenience, downside, shortcoming, cla, handicap

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1. Anne Grete Hestnes:

   Their basic drawback is their relatively low efficiency, however, it is all a question of price. If the transparent cells are cheaper, and if the cells are to cover a relatively large area... it may be the better solution.

2. Baruch Spinoza:

   Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

3. Yvonne Maldonado:

   Pooled testing can be one good option if schools decide to do routing surveillance testing. The benefits are that the tests can be batched and run together, decreasing time to getting The Results and potentially decreasing cost of testing, the major drawback is that pooled testing is best used in low prevalence settings, because if there is a positive pool then all of the individual samples in that' batch' have to be disaggregated and tested individually to identify the actual positive sample or samples.

4. Kurt Russell:

   I didn't want to have a long name, Russell Estates or something. I didn't think trying to slap a name on a bottle that people might recognize was not only, to me, not necessarily a good thing, I thought it was a drawback, gogi is an old nickname of mine, so the brand is GoGi.

5. Erica Strausssaid she:

   It’s a fantastic moisturizer, the only drawback is the smell.