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malfunction - 7 thesaurus results
| 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: | come unglued |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose one's cool |
| Synonyms: | disintegrate, fall apart, go to pieces, malfunction, break down, come apart at the seams, come apart at the seams, come unstuck, come unwrapped, fall to bits, fall to bits, fall to pieces, fall to pieces |
| 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: | miscarriage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure |
| Synonyms: | abortion, botch, breakdown, defeat, error, interruption, malfunction, misadventure, mischance, misfire, mishap, miss, mistake, perversion, undoing, nonsuccess |
| Antonyms: | carriage, success |
| Main Entry: | act up (malfunction) |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to malfunction |
| Synonyms: | break, fail, improperly, jam, malfunction, stall, break down, conk out, function go on the blink, not work, stop running |
| Antonyms: | function properly |
| Main Entry: | irregularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that is irregular |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, allowance, anomaly, characteristic, deviation, dispensation, eccentricity, exception, excess, exemption, innovation, laxity, malformation, malfunction, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, privilege, quirk, rarity, strangeness, looseness, singularity, unconformity, uniqueness, unorthodoxy |
| Antonyms: | custom, regularity, rule |
| Main Entry: | trouble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad health |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailment, complaint, curse, defect, disability, disease, disorder, failure, illness, malady, malfunction, upset |
| Antonyms: | fitness, good health |
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