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Synonyms for impairment
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Princeton's WordNet
damage, harm, impairment(noun)
the occurrence of a change for the worse
Synonyms:
equipment casualty, hurt, scathe, terms, price, legal injury, injury, disability, handicap, constipation, damage, wrong, harm, deadening, deterioration, disablement, trauma, stultificationdeterioration, impairment(noun)
a symptom of reduced quality or strength
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constipation, stultification, worsening, harm, disablement, disability, declension, handicap, deadening, damage, deterioration, decline in qualitydisability, disablement, handicap, impairment(noun)
the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
"reading disability"; "hearing impairment"
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impediment, constipation, baulk, deterrent, disability, handicap, balk, check, harm, deadening, deterioration, damage, hinderance, hindrance, disablement, stultificationimpairment(noun)
damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality
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constipation, stultification, harm, disability, deadening, handicap, damage, deterioration, disablementstultification, constipation, impairment, deadening(noun)
the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
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constipation, harm, stultification, deadening, disablement, irregularity, handicap, damage, befooling, disability, deterioration
English Synonyms and Antonyms
impairment
Injury (Latin in, not, and jus, juris, right, law) signifies primarily something done contrary to law or right; hence, something contrary to some standard of right or good; whatever reduces the value, utility, beauty, or desirableness of anything is an injury to that thing; of persons, whatever is so done as to operate adversely to one in his person, rights, property, or reputation is an injury; the word is especially used of whatever mars the integrity of the body or causes pain; as, when rescued from the wreck his injuries were found to be very slight. Injury is the general term including all the rest. Damage (Latin damnum, loss) is that which occasions loss to the possessor; hence, any impairment of value, often with the suggestion of fault on the part of the one causing it; damage reduces value, utility, or beauty; detriment (Latin deterere, to rub or wear away) is similar in meaning, but far milder. Detriment may affect value only; damage always affects real worth or utility; as a rule, the slightest use of an article by a purchaser operates to its detriment if again offered for sale, tho the article may have received not the slightest damage. Damage is partial; loss is properly absolute as far as it is predicated at all; the loss of a ship implies that it is gone beyond recovery; the loss of the rudder is a damage to the ship; but since the loss of a part still leaves a part, we may speak of a partial or a total loss. Evil commonly suggests suffering or sin, or both; as, the evils of poverty, the social evil. Harm is closely synonymous with injury; it may apply to body, mind, or estate, but always affects real worth, while injury may concern only estimated value. A hurt is an injury that causes pain, physical or mental; a slight hurt may be no real harm. Mischief is disarrangement, trouble, or harm usually caused by some voluntary agent, with or without injurious intent; a child's thoughtless sport may do great mischief; wrong is harm done with evil intent. An outrage combines insult and injury. Compare synonyms for BLEMISH; CRIMINAL; INJUSTICE.
Synonyms:
blemish, damage, detriment, disadvantage, evil, harm, hurt, injury, injustice, loss, mischief, outrage, prejudice, wrongAntonyms:
advantage, amelioration, benefit, blessing, boon, help, improvement, remedy, service, utilityPreposition:
The injury of the cause; an injury to the structure; injury by fire; by or from collision, interference, etc.
Editors Contribution
mischeif
to hurt someone
harming something or someone
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "impairment":
disability, deficiency, alteration, deterioration, disabilities, depreciation, infirmity, disorder, degradation, impairments, disorders, weathering, handicap, insufficiency, write-down, reduced
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#101 | price | |
#229 | terms | |
#272 | check | |
#972 | loss | |
#1673 | wrong | |
#2266 | damage | |
#2620 | injury | |
#2680 | reduced | |
#3009 | evil | |
#3459 | disability | |
#4055 | disorders | |
#4305 | disabilities | |
#5093 | hurt | |
#5268 | disorder | |
#6159 | harm | |
#9538 | trauma | |
#10456 | prejudice | |
#10765 | deficiency | |
#10997 | impairment | |
#11185 | degradation | |
#11906 | depreciation | |
#12951 | handicap | |
#14250 | alteration | |
#15341 | disadvantage | |
#17473 | injustice | |
#18311 | deterioration | |
#20114 | outrage | |
#22866 | constipation | |
#23005 | impairments | |
#24690 | mischief | |
#28533 | deterrent | |
#30803 | detriment | |
#31954 | insufficiency | |
#33235 | worsening | |
#35729 | weathering | |
#38554 | impediment | |
#43554 | blemish | |
#44966 | hindrance | |
#51563 | irregularity | |
#53908 | balk | |
#71523 | disablement | |
#72653 | infirmity | |
#107606 | deadening | |
#117527 | declension | |
#197935 | baulk | |
#204694 | hinderance |
How to use impairment in a sentence?
Alzheimers Association saysWith many doctors:
Mild cognitive impairment is often harder to pick up than dementia because it's often much more subtle.
Drug impairment is a complicated topic, drugs can affect people in different ways. Some things make you super excited, and some things slow you down.
Right now, we don’t have a nationally agreed upon way to test drivers for drug impairment similar to a breathalyzer or blood test for alcohol.
There are many things that have been shown to improve outcomes such as quality of life among people with memory impairment – these include having plenty of social experiences in person with others and engaging in regular physical activity, it would be a shame to push 3D gaming to the point of inadvertently negatively impacting these evidence-based treatments.
Ultimately it's just very quiet. I can hear my radio for a change. Normally I can't hear that. So that's kind of nice, but yeah, there's actually a lot less load on the helmet, too, so visually there's been really no impairment.
Translations for impairment
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- تلفArabic
- deterioroSpanish
- arvonalentuminen, häiriö, vika, arvonalennusFinnish
- handicap, dépréciationFrench
- हानिHindi
- pelemahanIndonesian
- indebolimentoItalian
- 機能障害Japanese
- оштетување, намалување, нарушувањеMacedonian
- handicapDutch
- PrejuízoPortuguese
- hendikep, onesposobljenost, oštećenjeSerbo-Croatian
- nedskrivningSwedish
- suy nhượcVietnamese
- 减值Chinese
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