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| 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: | abnormality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being different from standard or norm |
| Synonyms: | aberration, anomaly, deformity, deviation, eccentricity, exception, flaw, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, strangeness, aberrancy, anomalism, atypicalness, bizarreness, deviance, deviancy, extraordinariness, preternaturalness, singularity, uncommonness, unnaturalness, unusualness, weirdness |
| Antonyms: | normality, sameness, standard, normalness |
| 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: | deform |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distort, disfigure |
| Synonyms: | batter, blemish, buckle, contort, cripple, damage, deface, flaw, grimace, impair, injure, knot, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, ruin, skew, spoil, twist, warp, wince, gnarl, malform, misshape |
| Antonyms: | beautify, improve |
| 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: | 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 |
| Notes: | a failing is a flaw or weak point or a failure to reach a minimum required performance; a foible a minor weakness or failing of character |
| Antonyms: | advantage, strength, strong point |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fallacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, misconception |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, delusion, deviation, equivocation, erratum, error, evasion, falsehood, flaw, heresy, inconsistency, mistake, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, subterfuge, untruth, deceptiveness, elusion, erroneousness, faultiness, illogicality, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, non sequitur, speciousness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth |
| Main Entry: | flurry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commotion, burst |
| Synonyms: | ado, agitation, brouhaha, bustle, confusion, disturbance, excitement, ferment, flap*, flaw, fluster, flutter, furor, fuss, gust, haste, hurry, outbreak, pother, spell, spurt, squall, stir*, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, whirl, whirlwind |
| Antonyms: | calm, calmness, quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glitch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | error |
| Synonyms: | bug*, defect, flaw, hitch, malfunction, misfire, mishap, problem, setback, snafu, snag, something wrong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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
| Main Entry: | inadequacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage, defect, inability |
| Synonyms: | blemish, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drawback, failing, flaw, imperfection, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, ineptitude, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, paucity, poverty, shortcoming, weakness, defalcation, defectiveness, faultiness, inadequateness, inaptness, incompetency, incompleteness, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, scantiness, skimpiness, underage, unfitness, unsuitableness |
| Antonyms: | ability, adequacy, enough, plenty, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | malfunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breakdown, failure |
| Synonyms: | bug*, defect, fault, flaw, glitch*, gremlin*, slip, impairment |
| Antonyms: | perfection, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scar |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blemish from previous injury or illness |
| Synonyms: | blister, crater, defect, discoloration, flaw, hurt, mark, pockmark, track, wound, cicatrice, cicatrix, disfigurement, scab |
| Antonyms: | perfection |
| Main Entry: | scar |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mark, hurt |
| Synonyms: | beat, blemish, brand, cut, damage, deface, disfigure, flaw, injure, maim, mar, pinch, score, scratch, slash, stab, traumatize |
| Antonyms: | perfect, smooth |
| Main Entry: | shortcoming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weak point |
| Synonyms: | bug*, catch*, defect, deficiency, demerit, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, frailty, imperfection, infirmity, lack, lapse, sin, weakness |
| Antonyms: | advantage, success, strong point |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shortfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficit; imperfection |
| Synonyms: | arrears, default, deficiency, flaw, in the red, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, loss, shortage, shortcoming, defectiveness, in the hole, incompleteness, insufficience, red ink, underage |
| Main Entry: | slipup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | error |
| Synonyms: | blooper, blunder, boner*, bungle, faux pas, flaw, glitch, goof*, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, misunderstanding, oversight, slight, stumble, transgression, boo-boo, miscalculation, misjudgment, screwup |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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