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| Main Entry: | fault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame, sin; mistake |
| Synonyms: | accountability, blunder, crime, defect, delinquency, dereliction, error, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, guilt, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, infirmity, lapse, liability, malfeasance, malpractice, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, omission, onus, oversight, responsibility, slip, solecism, transgression, trespass, vice, weakness, wrong, wrongdoing, answerability, culpability, evil doing, loss of innocence, peccancy, slip-up* |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, correctness, good, perfection |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical defect |
| Synonyms: | blemish, debility, deficiency, demerit, imperfection, infirmity, lack, pimple, shortcoming, weakness, zit*, weak point |
| Antonyms: | perfection, soundness, strength |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blunder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake |
| Synonyms: | blooper*, boner*, bungle, error, fault, faux pas, flub*, fluff*, gaffe, goof*, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, lapse, muff*, oversight, slip, solecism, trip*, boo-boo, dumb move, dumb thing to do, flub-up, howler, slip-up |
| Antonyms: | accuracy, correction, fix, restitution |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense against the law |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrocity, breach, break, caper, case, corruption, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, enormity, evil, fault, felony, hit, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, transgression, trespass, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, antisocial behavior, criminality, delict, delictum, evil behavior, fast one, illegality, immorality, malefaction, tort, unlawful act |
| Notes: | crime is from Latin crimen 'judgment, accusation, offense' and a crime is an act in violation of a law; a misdemeanor is a less serious crime while a felony is a major crime |
| 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, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing, overlooking |
| Antonyms: | advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success |
| Main Entry: | defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blemish, imperfection |
| Synonyms: | birthmark, blot, blotch, break, bug, catch, check, crack, deficiency, deformity, discoloration, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, glitch, gremlin, hole, infirmity, injury, irregularity, kink, knot, lack, mark, mistake, patch, rift, scar, scarcity, scratch, seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, vice, want, weakness, marring, rough spot, unsoundness, weak point |
| Antonyms: | advantage, improvement, perfection, strength |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delinquency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconduct |
| Synonyms: | crime, default, dereliction, failure, fault, lapse, misbehavior, misdeed, misdemeanor, neglect, offense, oversight, weakness, wrongdoing, nonfeasance, nonobservance |
| Antonyms: | good behavior |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | earthquake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tremor from inside the earth |
| Synonyms: | convulsion, fault, movement, quake, seism, shake, shock, slip, undulation, upheaval, macroseism, microseism, quaker, seimicity, seismism, temblor, trembler* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | error |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake; wrong |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, blunder, boner*, delinquency, delusion, deviation, erratum, failure, fall, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, glitch, goof*, inaccuracy, lapse, misconception, miscue, misdeed, miss, misstep, misunderstanding, offense, omission, oversight, sin, slight, slip, slipup, solecism, stumble, transgression, trespass, untruth, wrongdoing, X*, bad job, boo-boo, howler, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, misjudgment, mismanagement, screamer, screw-up |
| Antonyms: | accuracy, certainty, correction, right, truth, validity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame; bad conscience over responsibility |
| Synonyms: | contrition, crime, delinquency, dereliction, disgrace, dishonor, error, failing, fault, indiscretion, infamy, iniquity, lapse, liability, malfeasance, malpractice, misbehavior, misconduct, misstep, offense, onus, penitence, regret, remorse, responsibility, shame, sin, slip, solecism, stigma, transgression, wickedness, wrong, answerability, blameworthiness, criminality, culpability, malefaction, peccability, self-condemnation, self-reproach, sinfulness |
| Antonyms: | innocence |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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