| Main Entry: | depletion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exhaustion |
Synonyms: |
deficiency, reduction |
| Main Entry: | consumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devouring; use |
Synonyms: |
burning, consuming, damage, decay, decrease, depletion, desolation, destruction, devastation, diminution, dispersion, dissipation, drinking, eating, exhaustion, expenditure, loss, misuse, ruin, swallowing, using up, utilization, waste, wear and tear |
Antonyms: |
fasting, starvation |
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, retrenchment, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, shrinkage, shrinking, slightness, stint, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
Synonyms: |
accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage |
Antonyms: |
accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
Synonyms: |
abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy |
Antonyms: |
abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth |
| Main Entry: | wear and tear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devaluation due to use |
Synonyms: |
ablation, attrition, consumption, decrement, depletion, depreciation, dissipation, erosion, hard wear, overuse, ravages of time, wearing away, weathering |
| Main Entry: | attenuation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debilitation |
Synonyms: |
depletion, devitalization, enfeeblement, exhaustion, fading, impoverishment, weakening, weakness |
| Main Entry: | debilitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depletion of strength |
Synonyms: |
debility, depletion, devitalization, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, fatigue, infirmity, weakness |
| Main Entry: | devitalization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debilitation |
Synonyms: |
depletion, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
| Main Entry: | enervation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debilitation |
Synonyms: |
attenuation, debility, depletion, devitalization, enfeeblement, exhaustion, feebleness, frailness, frailty, weakening, weakness |