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| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
bereaved, bereft, cut off, denuded, deprived of, dispossessed, imperdible, irretrievable, long lost, losing, lost, minus, not having, off one's hands, out of pocket, quit of, viduous
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loss; deperdition, perdition; forfeiture, lapse., privation, bereavement; deprivation (dispossession) [more]; riddance; damage, squandering, waste.
-verbs
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| Antonyms: | acquisition, retention |
| Main Entry: | abend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abnormal end of task |
| Synonyms: | abort, crash, loss |
| Main Entry: | bankruptcy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inability to pay debts |
| Synonyms: | Chapter 11*, default, destitution, disaster, exhaustion, failure, indebtedness, indigence, lack, loss, nonpayment, privation, repudiation, ruin, defalcation, destituteness, insolvency, liquidation, overdraft, pauperism, ruination |
| Antonyms: | richness, solvency, wealth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bottom line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indispensable content |
| Synonyms: | basis, conclusion, core, crux, determination, essence, fiber, final decision, fundamentals, income, key point, last word, loss, main idea, main point, main thing, meat and potatoes, name of the game, net, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, point, profit, reality, sum and substance, what it's all about, whole story |
| Main Entry: | consumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devouring; use |
| Synonyms: | burning, consuming, damage, decay, decrease, depletion, desolation, destruction, devastation, diminution, dispersion, dissipation, eating, exhaustion, expenditure, loss, misuse, ruin, swallowing, waste, wear and tear, drinking, using up, utilization |
| Antonyms: | starvation, fasting |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains*, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extinction, fatality, finish, grave, grim reaper*, heaven, loss, mortality, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, quietus, release, repose, ruin, silence, sleep, termination, tomb, annihilation, eternal rest, extermination, finis, necrosis, obliteration, passing over, ruination |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decrease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | diminishing, lessening |
| Synonyms: | abatement, compression, condensation, constriction, contraction, cutback, decline, depression, diminution, discount, downturn, ebb, loss, reduction, shrinkage, waning, declining, decrescence, dwindling, falling off, striction, subsidence |
| Antonyms: | addition, development, enlargement, expansion, growth, increase, raise |
| 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: | deficit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage of something needed, required |
| Synonyms: | arrears, default, deficiency, dues, in the red, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, loss, paucity, shortcoming, shortfall, dead horse, defalcation, due bill, in hock, in the hole, insufficience, red ink, scantiness, underage |
| Antonyms: | enough, excess, plenty, superfluousness |
| Main Entry: | deprivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking, keeping away; need |
| Synonyms: | denial, destitution, detriment, disadvantage, distress, hardship, loss, privation, removal, seizure, want, withdrawal, withholding, deprival, dispossession, divestiture, divestment, expropriation |
| Antonyms: | endowment, giving, indulgence, offer, offering, presentation, supply, bestowal |
| Main Entry: | destruction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demolition, devastation |
| Synonyms: | abolition, bane, carnage, downfall, elimination, end, eradication, extinction, extirpation, havoc, loss, massacre, murder, overthrow, ruin, slaughter, subversion, undoing, wreckage, wrecking, abolishing, annihilation, assassinating, crashing, crushing, disintegrating, disrupting, dissolving, extermination, extinguishing, invalidating, invalidation, liquidation, ravaging, ruination, sacking, shattering, slaying, subjugation, subverting |
| Antonyms: | building, construction, creation, improvement, reparation, restoration |
| Main Entry: | detriment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | damage, disability, disservice, drawback, handicap, harm, hurt, injury, liability, loss, mischief, prejudice, impairment, marring, spoiling |
| Antonyms: | advantage, assistance, benefit, gain, help, profit |
| Main Entry: | devastation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destruction |
| Synonyms: | confusion, demolition, depredation, desolation, havoc, loss, pillage, plunder, ruin, waste, defoliation, ravages, ruination, spoliation |
| Antonyms: | building, construction, creation |
| Main Entry: | disappearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vanishing |
| Synonyms: | departure, desertion, disintegration, dissipation, dissolution, eclipse, escape, evanescence, evaporation, exit, exodus, fading, flight, loss, melting, passing, recession, removal, wane, withdrawal, ceasing to exist, decline and fall, dematerialization, disappearing act, dispersal, ebbing, going, receding, retirement, wearing away |
| Antonyms: | appearance, arrival, coming, entrance |
| Main Entry: | expense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cost, payment |
| Synonyms: | amount, assessment, bite*, bottom line*, budget, charge, consumption, debit, debt, deprivation, disbursement, duty, expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, insurance, investment, liability, loan, loss, mortgage, obligation, outdo*, outlay, output, overhead, price, price tag, rate, responsibility, risk, sacrifice, sum, surcharge, tariff, toll, upkeep, use, value, worth, decrement, out of pocket, payroll, spending |
| Notes: | expenditure refers to an actual outlay of money or goods, whereas expense has a more general sense, a charge or cost of goods or property; we have expenses, but we make expenditures |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forfeit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something given as sacrifice |
| Synonyms: | cost, fine, loss, mulct, penalty, damages, relinquishment |
| Antonyms: | gain, victory, win |
| Main Entry: | harm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury, evil |
| Synonyms: | abuse, damage, detriment, disservice, foul play*, hurt, ill, infliction, iniquity, loss, mischance, mischief, misfortune, misuse, outrage, prejudice, ravage, ruin, sabotage, sin, vandalism, vice, violence, wear and tear*, wickedness, wrong, banefulness, deleteriousness, immorality, impairment, marring, noxiousness, perniciousness, ruination, sinfulness |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, good, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | havoc |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chaotic situation |
| Synonyms: | calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, chaos, confusion, damage, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, disorder, disruption, loss, mayhem, plunder, rack and ruin, shambles*, vandalism, waste, wreck, wreckage, despoiling, ravages, ruination |
| Antonyms: | peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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