| Main Entry: | bane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cause of misery |
Synonyms: |
affliction, blight, burden, bête noir, calamity, curse, despair, destruction, disaster, downfall, fatal attraction, misery, nuisance, pest, plague, poison, ruin, ruination, scourge, torment, trial, trouble, undoing, venom, woe |
Antonyms: |
advantage, blessing, fortune, good luck |
| Concept: | Bane. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to Ends; Degree of Subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
bane, curse; evil; hurtfulness (badness); painfulness (cause of pain); scourge (punishment); damnosa hereditas; white elephant., sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle., poison, leaven, virus, venom; arsenic; antimony, tartar emetic; strychnine, nicotine; miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas; pest., Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid; bichloride of mercury; carbonic acid, carbonic gas; choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp; hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide; marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane., rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper (evil doer); demon., hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite; banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish; Upas tree., [Science of poisons] toxicology.
-adjectives
-phrases
bibere venenum in auro.
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Antonyms: |
remedy |
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| Main Entry: | anathema |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something hated |
Synonyms: |
abomination, bane, bugbear, detestation, enemy, hate, pariah |
Antonyms: |
love |
| Main Entry: | bête noire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disliked person |
Synonyms: |
adversary, anathema, antagonist, bad news, bad news, bane, bitter enemy, bugbear, competitor, curse, devil, enemy, foe, opponent, pet hate, plague, rival, trouble |
| Main Entry: | blight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; plague |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bane, blot on the landscape, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe |
Antonyms: |
blessing, boon, health, prosperity |
| Main Entry: | canker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blistered infection |
Synonyms: |
bane, blight, blister, boil, cancer, corrosion, corruption, lesion, rot, scourge, smutch, sore, ulcer |
| Main Entry: | contagion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infection |
Synonyms: |
bane, contamination, corruption, illness, miasma, pestilence, plague, poison, pollution, taint, transmission, venom, virus |
| Main Entry: | curse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hateful, swearing remark |
Synonyms: |
anathema, ban, bane, blaspheming, blasphemy, commination, cursing, cuss word, cussing, damning, denunciation, dirty name, dirty word, double whammy, execration, expletive, four-letter word, fulmination, imprecation, malediction, malison, naughty words, no-no, oath, objuration, obloquy, obscenity, profanation, profanity, sacrilege, swear word, swearing, vilification, whammy |
Antonyms: |
compliment, praise |
| Main Entry: | curse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune wished upon someone |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bane, burden, calamity, cancer, cross, disaster, evil, evil eye, hydra, jinx, ordeal, pestilence, plague, scourge, torment, tribulation, trouble, vexation, voodoo |
| Main Entry: | damage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury, loss |
Synonyms: |
accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane, blemish, blow, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, cave-in, contamination, corruption, debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, deterioration, detriment, devastation, disservice, disturbance, evil, hardship, harm, hurt, illness, impairment, infliction, knockout, marring, mischief, mishap, mutilation, outrage, pollution, ravage, reverse, ruin, ruining, spoilage, stroke, suffering, waste, wound, wreckage, wrecking, wrong |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement, profit |