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defect - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: defect
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: break from belief, faith
Synonyms: abandon, abscond, back out, break faith*, depart, desert, forsake, go, go over, lapse, leave, pull out, quit, rat*, rebel, reject, renege, renounce, revolt, run out, schism, sell out*, spurn, tergiversate, turn, walk out on, withdraw, apostatize, change sides, fall away from, go back on, go over the fence, take a walk, tergiverse, turn coat
Antonyms: come in, join
Main Entry: blemish
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: flaw
Synonyms: birthmark, blister, bloom*, blot, blotch, blur, brand, bruise, bug*, catch, chip, defacement, defect, deformity, dent, discoloration, disgrace, dishonor, eyesore, fault, freckle, imperfection, impurity, lump, mark, mole, patch, pimple, pock, pockmark, scar, second, sight, smudge, snag, speck, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, vice, wart, zit*, beauty spot, blackhead, blot on the landscape, cicatrix, disfigurement, hickey, lentigo, macula, maculation, nevus, nodule, speckle, whitehead
Antonyms: adornment, decoration, embellishment, ornament
Main Entry: blindness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sightlessness
Synonyms: darkness, defect, amaurosis, anopsia, astigmatism, cataracts, myopia, presbyopia, purblindness, typhlosis
Antonyms: sight, sightedness
Main Entry: blot
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mark; flaw
Synonyms: black eye*, blemish, blotch, blur, brand, defect, discoloration, disgrace, fault, odium, onus, patch, slur, smear, smudge, speck, spot, stain, stigma, taint
Antonyms: blank, clarity
Main Entry: dearth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insufficiency, scarcity
Synonyms: absence, default, defect, deficiency, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, shortage, want, exiguousness, rareness, scantiness, scantness, slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness
Antonyms: abundance, excess, plenty, sufficiency, plentifulness
Main Entry: deficiency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: imperfection, inadequacy
Synonyms: absence, bug*, dearth, default, defect, deficit, demerit, dereliction, failing, failure, fault, flaw, frailty, glitch*, insufficiency, lack, loss, need, neglect, paucity, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness, defalcation, inability to hack it, insufficience, scantiness
Antonyms: adequacy, enough, perfection, plenty, satisfaction, sufficiency, superfluity, faultlessness
Main Entry: deformity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disfigurement, distortion
Synonyms: aberration, abnormality, buckle, contortion, corruption, damage, defacement, defect, depravity, evil, injury, irregularity, knot, malformation, ugliness, warp, asymmetry, crookedness, grossness, hideousness, impairment, malconformation, misproportion, misshape, misshapenness, repulsiveness, unattractiveness, unnaturalness, unsightliness
Antonyms: beauty, grace, shapeliness
Main Entry: disability
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disadvantage, restriction
Synonyms: affliction, ailment, defect, detriment, disqualification, drawback, inability, incapacity, infirmity, injury, lack, weakness, impairment, incompetency, inexperience, invalidity, unfitness
Notes: debility is the state of being weak in health or body; disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; inability is lack of mental ability or physical ability to do something
Antonyms: advantage, fitness, strength
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
Antonyms: health
Main Entry: downside
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a negative aspect of a situation
Synonyms: defect, disadvantage, drawback, fault, flaw, inconvenience, minus, problem, trouble
Main Entry: drawback
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disadvantage
Synonyms: check, defect, deficiency, detriment, difficulty, disability, evil, failing, fault, flaw, handicap, hindrance, hitch, ill, impediment, imperfection, inconvenience, lack, nuisance, obstacle, shortcoming, snag, stumbling block*, trouble, weakness, fly in the ointment
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, boon, extra, perfection
Main Entry: failing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lapse, shortcoming
Synonyms: blind spot*, defect, deficiency, drawback, error, failure, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, imperfection, infirmity, miscarriage, misfortune, vice, weakness, weak point
Antonyms: advantage, strength, strong point
Main Entry: flaw
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: imperfection
Synonyms: Catch-22*, blemish, bug, catch*, defect, failing, fault, foible, glitch*, gremlin*, pitfall, slipup, speck, spot, stain, vice, wart*, weak spot, weakness, disfigurement, typo
Antonyms: perfection, strength, fine point
Main Entry: foible
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: personal imperfection
Synonyms: characteristic, defect, eccentricity, failing, fault, frailty, idiosyncrasy, infirmity, kink, mannerism, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, shortcoming, vice, weakness, singularity, weak point
Antonyms: strength
Main Entry: frailty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weakness, flaw
Synonyms: Achilles heel*, blemish, debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, error, failing, fallibility, fault, feebleness, foible, foil, imperfection, infirmity, peccadillo, shortcoming, solecism, daintiness, flimsiness, peccability, suscept, weak point
Antonyms: firmness, strength
Main Entry: glitch
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: error
Synonyms: bug*, defect, flaw, hitch, malfunction, misfire, mishap, problem, setback, snafu, snag, something wrong
Main Entry: impediment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: obstruction, hindrance
Synonyms: Catch-22*, bar, barricade, barrier, block, bottleneck*, burden, catch*, chain, check, clog, cramp, curb, defect, delay, deterrent, detriment, difficulty, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, encumbrance, fault, flaw, handicap, hazard, hitch, holdup, hurdle, inhibition, load, manacle, millstone*, obstacle, prohibition, red tape*, restraint, restriction, road block*, rub*, setback, shackle, snag, stoppage, stricture, stumbling block*, tie, trammel, wall, blockage, dead weight, retardation, retardment
Antonyms: aid, assistance, furtherance, help, support, facilitation
Main Entry: imperfection
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: flaw
Synonyms: blemish, bug*, catch, defect, deficiency, deformity, demerit, failing, fallibility, fault, foible, frailty, glitch*, gremlin*, inadequacy, infirmity, insufficiency, peccadillo, problem, shortcoming, sin, stain, taint, weakness, disfigurement, incompleteness, weak point
Antonyms: excellence, perfection, purity, flawlessness
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