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| Main Entry: | losing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | said of one who loses |
| Synonyms: | defeated, doomed, failing, falling, ruined, undone, unsuccessful |
| Main Entry: | losing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | said of an activity in which one must lose |
| Synonyms: | desperate, futile, hopeless, lost |
| Main Entry: | lose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be deprived of; mislay |
| Synonyms: | bereave, capitulate, consume, default, deplete, disinherit, displace, dispossess, dissipate, divest, drain, drop, exhaust, expend, fail, forfeit, forget, lavish, misplace, miss, misspend, oust, relinquish, rob, sacrifice, squander, suffer, surrender, waste, yield, be careless, be impoverished, be reduced, become poorer, fail to keep, fall short, give up, pass up, suffer loss, use up |
| Notes: | loose means not restrained, fastened, confined or attached, while lose means fail to keep or to maintain or fail to win |
| Antonyms: | keep, maintain, hold on to |
| Main Entry: | lose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be defeated |
| Synonyms: | decline, drop, fall, miss, succumb, yield, be humbled, be outdistanced, be sunk, be taken to cleaners, be the loser, be worsted, come up short, drop a bundle, kiss goodbye, lose out, suffer defeat, take a beating, take the count, take the heat |
| Antonyms: | achieve, succeed, win |
| Main Entry: | lose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | escape, avoid |
| Synonyms: | clear, dodge, duck, elude, evade, outrun, rid, shake, shake off*, stray, throw off*, unburden, give the slip, leave behind, slip away, wander from |
| Antonyms: | confront, face, meet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incapable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not adequate; helpless |
| Synonyms: | butterfingers*, feeble, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, ineffective, ineligible, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, insufficient, losing, naive, poor, powerless, unable, unfit, unqualified, unskilled, unskillful, unsuited, weak, disqualified, inproficient, not equal to, not up to, uncool, unequipped |
| Antonyms: | capable, competent, qualified, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
| Synonyms: | accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, need, perdition, privation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage, dispossession, impairment, mislaying, misplacing, retardation, squandering |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | unsuccessful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | failing |
| Synonyms: | abortive, defeated, disastrous, doomed, fruitless, futile, ill-fated, ineffective, ineffectual, losing, unlucky, useless, vain, failed, foiled, thwarted |
| Main Entry: | bomb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fail miserably |
| Synonyms: | flop, flummox, lose, wipe out*, blow it, go out of business, wash out* |
| Antonyms: | succeed, win, do well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clean, clear away |
| Synonyms: | ameliorate, break up, brighten, clarify, cleanse, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, eliminate, empty, erase, extricate, free, lighten, loosen, lose, meliorate, open, purify, refine, rid, rule out, shake off, sweep, throw off, tidy, unburden, unload, unpack, untie, vacate, void, wipe, burn off, unblock, unclog, unloose |
| Antonyms: | clutter, pile up |
| Main Entry: | contract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | condense |
| Synonyms: | abate, abbreviate, abridge, clench, compress, confine, constrict, consume, curtail, decline, decrease, deflate, dwindle, ebb, edit, epitomize, evaporate, fall off, lessen, lose, narrow, omit, purse, recede, reduce, shrink, shrivel, subside, take in, tighten, wane, waste, weaken, wither, wrinkle, become smaller, draw in, fall away, grow less, syncopate |
| Antonyms: | amplify, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, increase, lengthen, spread, stretch |
| Main Entry: | cost |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | harm; exact a penalty |
| Synonyms: | expect, hurt, infuriate, lose, necessitate, obligate, require, do disservice to |
| Main Entry: | deprive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep or take away something wanted, needed |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, denude, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, expropriate, hold back, lose, oust, rob, seize, skim, stiff, strip, wrest |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, bestow, confer, endow, give, indulge, offer, present, supply |
| Main Entry: | displace |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move, remove from normal place |
| Synonyms: | change, derange, disarrange, dislocate, dislodge, dispossess, disturb, eject, evict, expel, lose, mislay, misplace, relegate, shift, transpose, unsettle, uproot, crowd out, disestablish, displant, expulse, force out |
| Antonyms: | leave |
| Main Entry: | divest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispossess; take off |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, denude, deprive, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, disrobe, ditch*, doff, dump, eighty-six*, lose, milk*, oust, plunder, remove, rob, seize, spoil, strip, uncover, undress, unload, denudate, take from, unclothe |
| Antonyms: | clothe, cover, invest, possess, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon; ignore |
| Synonyms: | abort, break with, call off, cancel, cast off, cease, desert, discontinue, dismiss, disown, ditch*, divorce, eighty-six*, end, forfeit, forsake, interrupt, jilt, kick*, leave, lose, quit, reject, relinquish, remit, renounce, repudiate, resign, sacrifice, scratch*, scrub*, separate, shake, stop, terminate, throw over, wipe out*, write off*, adios, be alienated from, dust off*, forget about, give up, have done with, part from, part with, wash out*, waste one |
| Antonyms: | continue, do, mount, pursue, take up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forfeit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give up something in sacrifice |
| Synonyms: | abandon, drop, lose, relinquish, renounce, sacrifice, surrender, be deprived of, be stripped of, give over |
| Antonyms: | gain, profit, win |
| Main Entry: | miss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fail, make a mistake |
| Synonyms: | blow, blunder, botch, disregard, drop, err, flub*, forget, fumble, ignore, juggle, lose, misfire, mislay, misplace, muff*, neglect, omit, overlook, pass over, skip, slight, slip, trip, be late for, drop the ball, fall flat on face, fall short, let go, let slip, miscarry, overshoot, pass up, trip up, undershoot |
| Antonyms: | get, succeed, do well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expel, get rid of |
| Synonyms: | banish, bereave, bounce*, chase, depose, deprive, dethrone, discharge, disinherit, dislodge, displace, dispossess, divest, eject, evict, fire, kick out, lay off, lose, ostracize, pink slip*, relegate, remove, rob, sack, send packing*, throw out, topple, transport, turn out, unseat, boot out, bundle off, cast out, drive out, expulse, force out, give the 1-2-3, let go, pack off, show the door |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, retain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rob |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal, deprive |
| Synonyms: | abscond, appropriate, bereave, cheat, con, cop*, defraud, despoil, disinherit, dispossess, divest, do out of*, embezzle, filch*, heist, hijack, hold up*, hustle, liberate, lift*, loot, lose, mug, oust, peculate, pilfer, pillage, pinch, plunder, promote, purloin, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off*, roll*, sack*, scrounge, snitch*, strip, strong-arm*, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, withhold, break into, burglarize, burgle, defalcate, stick up |
| Antonyms: | give, offer |
* = 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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