| Main Entry: | breakdown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nervous collapse |
Synonyms: |
basket case, crackup, disintegration, disruption, failure, mishap, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neurosis, psychasthenia |
Antonyms: |
mental health |
| Main Entry: | breakdown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of finances or other business |
Synonyms: |
analysis, categorization, classification, detailed list, diagnosis, dissection, itemization, resolution |
| Main Entry: | analysis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | examination and determination |
Synonyms: |
assay, breakdown, dissection, dissolution, division, inquiry, investigation, partition, reasoning, resolution, scrutiny, search, separation, study, subdivision, test |
| Notes: | analysis is breaking down or taking apart; synthesis is bringing together |
| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden dysfunction or disorder |
Synonyms: |
access, ailment, bout, breakdown, convulsion, disease, failure, fit, illness, paroxysm, relapse, seizure, spasm, spell, stroke, throe |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | breakup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of relationship |
Synonyms: |
breakdown, breaking, crackup, disintegration, dispersal, dissolution, divorce, ending, parting, rift, separation, split, splitsville, splitting, termination, wind-up |
Antonyms: |
reconciliation |
| Main Entry: | bug |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computer glitch |
Synonyms: |
breakdown, computer malfunction, defect, error, failure, fault, flaw, hitch, problem, something wrong, trouble |
| Main Entry: | debacle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catastrophe |
Synonyms: |
beating, blue ruin, breakdown, collapse, crack-up, crash, defeasance, defeat, devastation, disaster, dissolution, downfall, drubbing, failure, fiasco, havoc, licking, overthrow, reversal, rout, ruin, ruination, shellacking, smash, smashup, trouncing, vanquishment, washout, wreck |
Antonyms: |
boon, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overthrow, beating |
Synonyms: |
KO, ambush, annihilation, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess, killing*, lacing, licking, loss, massacre, mastery, nonsuccess, paddling, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, scalping, setback, shellacking, slaughter, subjugation, thrashing, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whipping, whitewashing |
Antonyms: |
conquest, success, triumph, victory, win |
| Main Entry: | disease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ailment, affliction |
Synonyms: |
ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, convulsions, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, flu, hemorrhage, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, pathosis, plague, seizure, sickliness, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, unhealthiness, unsoundness, upset, virus, visitation |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | dissection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thorough analysis |
Synonyms: |
breakdown, breakup, criticism, critique, examination, inquest, inspection, investigation, resolution, review, scrutiny, study |