Word Meanings - LOSS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property. (more info) 1. The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. Assured loss before the match

Additional info about word: LOSS

Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property. (more info) 1. The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. Assured loss before the match be played. Shak. 2. The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing. Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss. Shak 3. That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable. 4. The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel. 5. Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle. 6. Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOSS)

• Detriment
• Loss
• harm
• hurt
• injury
• deterioration
• impairment
• disadvantage
• prejudice
• damage
• inconvenience
• Forfeit
• Fine
• penalty
• mulct
• amercement
• damages
• loss
• Perdition
• Destruction
• ruin
• demolition
• Privation
• Deprivation
• destitution
• absence
• negation
• bereavement
• hardship
• want

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LOSS)

• Suit
• aid
• benefit
• subserve
• assist
• help

Related words: (words related to LOSS)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• ABSENCE
  1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• HARDSHIP
  That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. Swift.
• DEMOLITIONIST
  A demolisher. Carlyle.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• INCONVENIENCE
  1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies
• MULCTARY; MULCTUARY
  Imposing a pecuniary penalty; consisting of, or paid as, a fine. Fines, or some known mulctuary punishments. Sir W. Temple.
• ASSISTLESS
  Without aid or help. Pope.
• ASSISTOR
  A assister.
• DETRIMENTAL
  Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison. Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious.
• DAMAGE FEASANT
  Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.
• DESTRUCTIONIST
  One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist. Shipley. (more info) 1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy
• SUBSERVE
  To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote. It is a great credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
• BENEFITER
  One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.
• DISADVANTAGE
  1. Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke.
• DEPRIVATION
  the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
• INDAMAGED
  Not damaged. Milton.
• ENDAMAGE
  To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton.
• DEPERDITION
  Loss; destruction. Sir T. Browne.
• ENDAMAGEMENT
  Damage; injury; harm. Shak.
• ENDAMAGEABLE
  Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable.
• SELF-DESTRUCTION
  The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide. Milton.