| Main Entry: | infliction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curse |
Synonyms: |
castigation, pain, punishment, visitation |
| Main Entry: | catastrophe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calamity; unhappy conclusion |
Synonyms: |
accident, adversity, affliction, alluvion, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains, debacle, denouement, desolation, devastation, disaster, emergency, end, failure, fatality, fiasco, finale, grief, hardship, havoc, ill, infliction, meltdown, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, the worst, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo, wreck |
Antonyms: |
benefit, blessing, favor, good fortune, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder |
| Main Entry: | damage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury, loss |
Synonyms: |
accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane, blemish, blow, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, cave-in, contamination, corruption, debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, deterioration, detriment, devastation, disservice, disturbance, evil, hardship, harm, hurt, illness, impairment, infliction, knockout, marring, mischief, mishap, mutilation, outrage, pollution, ravage, reverse, ruin, ruining, spoilage, stroke, suffering, waste, wound, wreckage, wrecking, wrong |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement, profit |
| Main Entry: | harm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury, evil |
Synonyms: |
abuse, banefulness, damage, deleteriousness, detriment, disservice, foul play, hurt, ill, immorality, impairment, infliction, iniquity, loss, marring, mischance, mischief, misfortune, misuse, noxiousness, outrage, perniciousness, prejudice, ravage, ruin, ruination, sabotage, sin, sinfulness, vandalism, vice, violence, wear and tear, wickedness, wrong |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, blessing, good, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doom, fate |
Synonyms: |
affliction, castigation, chastisement, correction, damnation, infliction, manifestation, misfortune, mortification, punishment, retribution, visitation |
| Notes: | judgment is the U.S. preferred spelling while judgement is the British preferred spelling |
| Main Entry: | nemesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bane |
Synonyms: |
adversary, affliction, bête noire, curse, infliction, opponent, plague, rival, ruination, scourge, torment |
| Main Entry: | nuisance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | annoyance; annoying person |
Synonyms: |
besetment, blister, bore, bother, botheration, botherment, bum*, creep, drag*, drip*, exasperation, frump, gadfly, headache, inconvenience, infliction, insect*, irritant, irritation, louse, nag*, nudge*, offense, pain, pain in the neck, pest, pester, pesterer, pill, plague, poor excuse, problem, terror, trouble, vexation |
Antonyms: |
delight, happiness, pleasantry, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | punishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty |
Synonyms: |
abuse, amercement, beating, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, confiscation, correction, deprivation, disciplinary action, discipline, forfeit, forfeiture, gallows, hard work, infliction, just desserts, lumps, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, punitive measures, purgatory, reparation, retribution, rod, rough treatment, sanction, sequestration, short shrift, slave labor, suffering, torture, trial, unhappiness, victimization, what for |
Antonyms: |
encouragement, exoneration, praise, protection, reward |
| Main Entry: | scourge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plague, torment |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bane, correction, curse, infliction, misfortune, penalty, pest, pestilence, punishment, terror, visitation |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, delight, happiness |
| Main Entry: | persecution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affliction |
Synonyms: |
annoyance, banishment, bashing, exile, expulsion, galling, ill-treatment, imprisonment, infliction, killing, maltreatment, massacre, mistreatment, murder, oppression, pestering, provoking, teasing, torment, torture, torture |
Antonyms: |
help, stimulation, succor |