drawback Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality of being a hindrance
    • he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan

WordNet

Draw"back` noun
Definitions
  1. A lose of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.
    The avarie of Henry VII . . . . must be deemed a drawback from the wisdom ascribed to him. Hallam.
  2. (Com.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. MCulloch.

Webster 1913