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Breakdown - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | breakdown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nervous collapse |
| Synonyms: | basket case*, disintegration, disruption, failure, mishap, neurosis, crackup*, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, psychasthenia |
| Antonyms: | mental health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | breakdown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of finances or other business |
| Synonyms: | analysis, classification, diagnosis, dissection, resolution, categorization, detailed list, itemization |
| Main Entry: | breakup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of relationship |
| Synonyms: | breakdown, breaking, disintegration, dissolution, divorce, ending, parting, rift, separation, split, termination, crackup*, dispersal, splitsville, splitting, wind-up |
| Antonyms: | reconciliation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | debacle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catastrophe |
| Synonyms: | beating, breakdown, collapse, crash, defeat, devastation, disaster, dissolution, downfall, failure, fiasco, havoc, overthrow, reversal, rout, ruin, smash, smashup, washout, wreck, blue ruin, crack-up, defeasance, drubbing, licking, ruination, shellacking, trouncing, vanquishment |
| Antonyms: | boon, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | disease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ailment, affliction |
| Synonyms: | ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, hemorrhage, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, plague, seizure, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, upset, virus, visitation, convulsions, flu, ill health, pathosis, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | downfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgrace, ruin |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, bane, breakdown, cloudburst, collapse, comedown, comeuppance, debacle, decadence, degeneracy, deluge, descent, destruction, deterioration, discomfiture, down, drop, failure, fall, flood, overthrow, rack and ruin, storm, undoing, declension, degeneration, devolution, on the rocks, road to ruin, ruination, the skids |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, ascent, rise, success |
| Main Entry: | explanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarification; reason |
| Synonyms: | account, annotation, answer, breakdown, brief, cause, comment, commentary, confession, definition, demonstration, description, details, display, elucidation, evidence, example, excuse, exposition, expression, gloss, history, illustration, information, interpretation, justification, meaning, mitigation, motive, narration, note, recital, rendition, report, resolution, sense, showing, significance, specification, statement, story, summary, tale, talking, telling, vindication, writing, explication |
| Antonyms: | complication |
| Main Entry: | fiasco |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catastrophe |
| Synonyms: | abortion, blunder, breakdown, debacle, disaster, embarrassment, error, failure, farce, flap, flop, mess, miscarriage, route, ruin, stunt, washout*, botched situation, dumb thing to do, dumb trick, screwup |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, miracle, success, wonder |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; bad health |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailing, ailment, attack, breakdown, bug*, collapse, complaint, confinement, convalescence, disability, diseasedness, disorder, disturbance, dose, failing health, fit, flu, ill health, indisposition, infirmity, malady, malaise, poor health, prostration, relapse, seizure, sickness, syndrome, unhealth, virus, what's going around |
| Antonyms: | good health, health, well-being, wellness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | miscarriage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure |
| Synonyms: | abortion, botch, breakdown, defeat, error, interruption, malfunction, misadventure, mischance, misfire, mishap, miss, mistake, perversion, undoing, nonsuccess |
| Antonyms: | carriage, success |
| Main Entry: | neurosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental disturbance, disorder |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, mental illness, obsession, phobia, crack-up, maladjustment, neurasthenia, personality disorder, psychological disorder, psychopathy |
| Antonyms: | adjustment, balance, sanity |
| Main Entry: | ruin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation of devastation |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, bane, bankruptcy, bath, breakdown, collapse, confusion, crash, crumbling, damage, decay, defeat, degeneracy, demolition, destitution, destruction, deterioration, dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, extinction, failure, fall, havoc, loss, nemesis, overthrow, subversion, undoing, waste, waterloo, wreck, wreckage, crackup, degeneration, insolvency, ruination, skids, the end |
| Antonyms: | building, construction, creation, development, growth |
| Main Entry: | shock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complete surprise; blow |
| Synonyms: | awe, breakdown, bump, clash, collapse, collision, concussion, confusion, consternation, crash, distress, disturbance, double whammy, earthquake, encounter, excitement, hysteria, impact, injury, jarring, jolt, percussion, prostration, ram, scare, start, stroke, stupefaction, stupor, trauma, turn, upset, whammy*, wreck, bombshell, eye-opener, traumatism |
| Antonyms: | expectation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overthrow, beating |
| Synonyms: | ambush, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, destruction, discomfiture, embarrassment, failure, fall, killing*, loss, massacre, mastery, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, setback, slaughter, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, whipping, KO, annihilation, defeasance, downthrow, drubbing, extermination, insuccess, lacing, licking, nonsuccess, paddling, scalping, shellacking, subjugation, thrashing, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whitewashing |
| Antonyms: | conquest, success, triumph, victory, win |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | examination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | test, analysis |
| Synonyms: | assay, audit, battery, breakdown, canvass, diagnosis, dissection, experiment, exploration, final, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, interrogation, investigation, observation, once-over*, oral, perusal, probe, quest, questioning, questionnaire, quiz, raid, reconnaissance, research, review, scan, scrutiny, search, study, survey, third degree, trial, tryout, view, written, blue book, catechism, checking, checkup, cross-examination, exam, grilling, legwork, make-up, perlustration, the eye |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | failure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of success |
| Synonyms: | abortion, bankruptcy, bomb, botch*, breakdown, bungle*, bust, checkmate, collapse, decay, decline, defeat, deficiency, deficit, deterioration, downfall, failing, false step, faux pas, fiasco, flash in the pan*, flop*, frustration, inadequacy, lemon*, loser, loss, mess, misadventure, miscarriage, misstep, overthrow, rout, rupture, stalemate, stoppage, washout*, wreck, implosion, lead balloon, nonperformance, nonsuccess, sinking ship, total loss, turkey |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, attainment, earnings, gain, merit, success, win |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | seizure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convulsive attack |
| Synonyms: | access, breakdown, convulsion, fit, illness, paroxysm, spasm, spell, stroke, throe, turn |
| Main Entry: | smash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collision; defeat |
| Synonyms: | accident, bang, bash, blast, blow, boom, breakdown, breaking, breakup, burst, clap, collapse, crack, crash, debacle, destruction, disaster, downfall, failure, ruin, slam, sock, wallop, welt, whack, wham, wreck, crack-up, pile-up, shattering, smash-up |
| Main Entry: | dissection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thorough analysis |
| Synonyms: | breakdown, breakup, criticism, critique, examination, inquest, inspection, investigation, resolution, review, scrutiny, study |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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