different between aggravation vs handicap

English

Etymology

From Middle French aggravation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

aggravation (countable and uncountable, plural aggravations)

1. The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

   Synonym: exacerbation

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 10

     Adrian, whose health had always been weak, now suffered considerable aggravation of suffering from the effects of his wound.

2. Exaggerated representation.
3. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
4. (informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.

Related terms

• aggravate

Translations

Further reading

• “aggravation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• aggravation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• aggravation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

aggravation f (plural aggravations)

1. aggravation

Further reading

• “aggravation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From hand in cap, in reference to holding the game stakes in a cap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hænd?kæp/

Noun

handicap (countable and uncountable, plural handicaps)

1. Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
2. An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
3. (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
4. A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
5. (obsolete, uncountable, card games) An old card game, similar to lanterloo.

Derived terms

• Benghazi Handicap

Translations

Verb

handicap (third-person singular simple present handicaps, present participle handicapping, simple past and past participle handicapped)

1. (transitive) To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
2. (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To place at disadvantage.

3. To estimate betting odds.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English handicap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n.di?k?p/

Noun

handicap m (plural handicaps, diminutive handicapje n)

1. disability
2. handicap, disadvantage
3. (sports, golf) handicap, measure of ability

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English handicap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hændikæp/, [?hændikæp]

Noun

handicap

1. (anglicism) handicap (allowance)

Declension

Synonyms

• tasoitus

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English handicap.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /??.di.kap/

Noun

handicap m (plural handicaps)

1. handicap
2. disability

Derived terms

• handicapé

Further reading

• “handicap” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English handicap.

Noun

handicap m (invariable)

1. handicap (disability; horserace)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English handicap.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: han?di?cap

Noun

handicap m (uncountable)

1. handicap, disadvantage
2. advantage

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English handicap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /andi?kap/, [ãn?.d?i?kap]

Noun

handicap m (plural handicaps)

1. handicap