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Main Entry: fault
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blame, sin; mistake

Synonyms:

accountability, answerability, blunder, crime, culpability, defect, delinquency, dereliction, error, evil doing, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, guilt, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, infirmity, lapse, liability, loss of innocence, malfeasance, malpractice, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, omission, onus, oversight, peccancy, responsibility, slip, slip-up, solecism, transgression, trespass, vice, weakness, wrong, wrongdoing

Antonyms:

advantage, benefit, blessing, correctness, good, perfection
Main Entry: fault
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: physical defect

Synonyms:

blemish, debility, deficiency, demerit, imperfection, infirmity, lack, pimple, shortcoming, weak point, weakness, zit

Antonyms:

perfection, soundness, strength
Main Entry: abuse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wrong use

Synonyms:

corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, injustice, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanage, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing
Notes: abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm
to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it
Main Entry: blame
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: responsibility

Synonyms:

accountability, answerability, burden, culpability, fault, guilt, incrimination, liability, onus, rap
Main Entry: blemish
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: flaw

Synonyms:

beauty spot, birthmark, blackhead, blister, bloom*, blot, blot on the landscape, blotch, blur, brand, bruise, bug*, catch, chip, cicatrix, defacement, defect, deformity, dent, discoloration, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, eyesore, fault, freckle, hickey, imperfection, impurity, lentigo, lump, macula, maculation, mark, mole, nevus, nodule, patch, pimple, pock, pockmark, scar, second, sight, smudge, snag, speck, speckle, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, vice, wart, whitehead, zit

Antonyms:

adornment, decoration, embellishment, ornament
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: blunder
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mistake

Synonyms:

blooper, boner, boo-boo, bungle, dumb move, dumb thing to do, error, fault, faux pas, flub, flub-up, fluff, gaffe, goof, howler, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, lapse, muff, oversight, slip, slip-up, solecism, trip*

Antonyms:

accuracy, correction, fix, restitution
Main Entry: bug
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: computer glitch

Synonyms:

breakdown, computer malfunction, defect, error, failure, fault, flaw, hitch, problem, something wrong, trouble
Main Entry: crime
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: offense against the law

Synonyms:

abomination, antisocial behavior, atrocity, breach, break, caper, case, corruption, criminality, delict, delictum, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, enormity, evil, evil behavior, fast one, fault, felony, hit, illegality, immorality, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malefaction, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, tort, transgression, trespass, unlawful act, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing

Antonyms:

good deed, kindness
Main Entry: default
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: failure; want

Synonyms:

absence, blemish, blunder, dearth, defect, deficiency, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, error, fault, imperfection, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, miss, neglect, nonpayment, offense, omission, overlooking, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing

Antonyms:

advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success
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