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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 |
| Main Entry: | net loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | total amount of money lost |
| Synonyms: | bottom line, deficit, diminishing returns, losses |
| Main Entry: | diminishing returns |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increases not proportional to more investment |
| Synonyms: | going belly up, law of diminishing returns, losings, losses |
| 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: | casualty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | victim |
| Synonyms: | dead, fatality, injured, loss, missing, prey, wounded, death toll, killed, sufferer |
| 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: | cost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty, sacrifice |
| Synonyms: | damage, deprivation, detriment, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, loss, suffering |
| Antonyms: | repayment, retribution |
| 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: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | downward change in value, position |
| Synonyms: | declivity, decrease, depression, descent, dip, downturn, drop, hill, incline, lapse, loss, lowering, pitch, sag, slide, slip, slope, slump, downslide, downswing, downtrend, drop-off, fall-off |
| Notes: | one declines (or accepts) something that is offered; one refuses (or agrees) to accept something offered |
| Antonyms: | ascent, increase, rise |
| 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: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overthrow, beating |
| Synonyms: | ambush, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, destruction, discomfiture, embarrassment, failure, fall, killing*, loss, massacre, mastery, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, setback, slaughter, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, whipping, KO, annihilation, defeasance, downthrow, drubbing, extermination, insuccess, lacing, licking, nonsuccess, paddling, scalping, shellacking, subjugation, thrashing, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whitewashing |
| Antonyms: | conquest, success, triumph, victory, win |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frustration |
| Synonyms: | disappointment, discomfiture, downfall, failure, foil, loss, rebuff, repulse, reversal, reverse, setback, thwarting |
| Antonyms: | attainment, mastery, success, triumph |
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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