Synonyms for injury
ˈɪn dʒə riin·ju·ry

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. injury

   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, impairment, injustice, loss, mischief, outrage, prejudice, wrong

   Antonyms:
   advantage, amelioration, benefit, blessing, boon, help, improvement, remedy, service, utility

   Preposition:
   The injury of the cause; an injury to the structure; injury by fire; by or from collision, interference, etc.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. injury, hurt, harm, traumanoun

   any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

   Synonyms:
   hurt, wound, distress, detriment, harm, accidental injury, psychic trauma, impairment, suffering, trauma, damage, scathe, combat injury

2. injury, accidental injurynoun

   an accident that results in physical damage or hurt

   Synonyms:
   wound, trauma, combat injury, hurt, accidental injury, harm

3. wound, injury, combat injurynoun

   a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

   Synonyms:
   hurt, wound, harm, accidental injury, lesion, trauma, wounding, combat injury

4. injurynoun

   an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage

   Synonyms:
   wound, trauma, combat injury, hurt, accidental injury, harm

5. injurynoun

   wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted

   Synonyms:
   wound, trauma, combat injury, hurt, accidental injury, harm

Matched Categories

1. • Military
   • Personnel Casualty
   • Wrongdoing

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. injurynoun

   Synonyms:
   wrong, injustice

2. injurynoun

   Synonyms:
   hurt, damage, harm, detriment, mischief, prejudice

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. injurynoun

   Synonyms:
   damage, detriment, harm, hurt, wound, impairment, mutilation, defacement, violation, lesion

   Associated words:
   vulnerable, vulnerability, invulnerable, invulnerability, inviolable, vulnific

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1. List of paraphrases for "injury":

   injuries, damage, wound, prejudice, harm, lesion, wounds, lesions, trauma, injured, accident, wounded, wounding, accidents, damages, hurt, detriment, pity, shame

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1. List of known nicknames for "Injury":

   Danijel Levatic

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1. Lord Herbert:

   Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.

2. Stephen Hargarten:

   The bullet enters the body, and the energy, as it dissipates, tissues stretch and lacerate, bones fracture. The bullet and its kinetic energy causes acute injury, we advocate for research funding support so we can seek better ways to prevent these injuries and to improve the treatment of these injuries that impact long-term disabilities.

3. Sarah Clark:

   Parents need to own their part of it, own their responsibility to make sure, as best they can, that they aren't setting up a situation that is going to mar or impede from the celebration because somebody got burned or somebody had an injury.

4. Carl Tobias:

   I don't have the impression that Parnell set out to kill people, he just ran his business in a way that caused a lot of injury and some deaths. The sentence was appropriate and maybe it should have been stiffer.

5. De Grasse:

   I will heal quickly from this injury, i will go be with my daughter and focus on being a dad for the next few weeks as I heal, and I will plan to come back stronger than ever.