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exhaustion - 13 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | exhaustion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
| Synonyms: | collapse, consumption, debility, expenditure, fatigue, feebleness, lassitude, prostration, weariness, burnout, debilitation, enervation |
| Antonyms: | energy, liveliness, readiness, vigor |
| Main Entry: | bankruptcy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inability to pay debts |
| Synonyms: | Chapter 11*, default, destitution, disaster, exhaustion, failure, indebtedness, indigence, lack, loss, nonpayment, privation, repudiation, ruin, defalcation, destituteness, insolvency, liquidation, overdraft, pauperism, ruination |
| Antonyms: | richness, solvency, wealth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | collapse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | downfall, breakdown |
| Synonyms: | bankruptcy, basket case*, cataclysm, catastrophe, crash, debacle, destruction, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, exhaustion, failure, faint, flop, prostration, smash, smashup, undoing, wreck, cave-in, conk out*, crackup*, ruination, ruining, subsidence |
| Antonyms: | increase, rise, success, build-up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devouring; use |
| Synonyms: | burning, consuming, damage, decay, decrease, depletion, desolation, destruction, devastation, diminution, dispersion, dissipation, eating, exhaustion, expenditure, loss, misuse, ruin, swallowing, waste, wear and tear, drinking, using up, utilization |
| Antonyms: | starvation, fasting |
| Main Entry: | debility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incapacity, weakness |
| Synonyms: | decrepitude, disease, exhaustion, feebleness, frailty, infirmity, languor, malaise, enervation, enfeeblement, faintness, sickliness, unhealthiness |
| 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: | ability, capability, health, strength, vigor |
| Main Entry: | emptiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | void, bareness |
| Synonyms: | blank, chasm, desolation, destitution, exhaustion, gap, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, waste, blankness, depletedness, desertedness, hollowness, inanition |
| Antonyms: | capacity, fill, fullness |
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
| Synonyms: | debility, dullness, ennui, exhaustion, feebleness, heaviness, languor, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, weakness, weariness, brain fag, burnout, enervation, faintness, fatigation, overtiredness |
| Antonyms: | energy, freshness, liveliness, spirit, vigor |
| Main Entry: | feebleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of strength; ineffectiveness |
| Synonyms: | debility, decrepitude, delicacy, disease, exhaustion, frailty, inability, inadequacy, incapacity, incompetence, infirmity, insignificance, insufficiency, languor, lassitude, malaise, senility, weakness, effeteness, enervation, etiolation, flimsiness, frailness, ineffectualness, infirmness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness |
| Antonyms: | ability, effectiveness, health, power, soundness, strength, heartiness |
| Main Entry: | lassitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lethargy |
| Synonyms: | apathy, dullness, exhaustion, fatigue, idleness, inaction, languor, laziness, listlessness, sleepiness, sluggishness, torpor, weakness, weariness, inactivity, tiredness |
| Main Entry: | vacuum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness |
| Synonyms: | exhaustion, gap, nothingness, space, vacuity, void, free space, rarefaction |
| Antonyms: | fullness |
| Main Entry: | weariness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fatigue |
| Synonyms: | exhaustion, lassitude, listlessness, tiredness |
| Main Entry: | absorption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assimilation, incorporation |
| Synonyms: | consumption, digestion, exhaustion, fusion, intake, osmosis, penetration, reception, retention, saturation, drinking in, imbibing, impregnation, ingestion, inhalation, soaking up, suction, taking in |
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spending, use without thought |
| Synonyms: | decay, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, dissipation, disuse, exhaustion, expenditure, extravagance, fritter*, havoc, improvidence, lavishness, loss, misuse, ravage, ruin, squander, lost opportunity, misapplication, overdoing, prodigality, squandering, unthriftiness, wastage, wastefulness |
| Antonyms: | saving, hoarding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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