What is another word for loss?
Synonyms for loss
lɔs, lɒsloss
This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word loss.
Wiktionary
lossnoun
lossnoun
The match ended in their first loss of the season.
lossnoun
It was written off as a loss.
lossnoun
We mourn his loss.
lossnoun
The battle was won, but losses were great.
lossnoun
The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.
lossnoun
It was a terrible crash: both cars were total losses
lossnoun
The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid
lossnoun
Antonyms:
profit
English Synonyms and Antonyms
loss
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, injury, injustice, 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.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
loss
Synonyms:
mislaying, dropping, forfeiture, missing, privation, waste, detriment, damageAntonyms:
preservation, recovery, earning, satisfaction, restoration, economy, augmentation, advantage, gain
Princeton's WordNet
lossnoun
something that is lost
"the car was a total loss"; "loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt"
Synonyms:
passing, red, exit, deprivation, release, red ink, going, personnel casualty, expiration, departureAntonyms:
gainlossnoun
gradual decline in amount or activity
"weight loss"; "a serious loss of business"
Synonyms:
passing, red, exit, deprivation, release, red ink, going, personnel casualty, expiration, departureAntonyms:
gainlossnoun
the act of losing someone or something
"everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock"
Synonyms:
passing, red, exit, deprivation, release, red ink, going, personnel casualty, expiration, departureAntonyms:
gainloss, deprivationnoun
the disadvantage that results from losing something
"his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"
Synonyms:
passing, red, exit, deprivation, release, red ink, going, personnel casualty, expiration, privation, neediness, departure, wantAntonyms:
gainlossnoun
the experience of losing a loved one
"he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather"
Synonyms:
passing, red, exit, deprivation, release, red ink, going, personnel casualty, expiration, departureAntonyms:
gainloss, red ink, rednoun
the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
"the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year"
Synonyms:
passing, red, exit, deprivation, release, red ink, going, bolshy, personnel casualty, expiration, redness, departure, bolshieAntonyms:
gainpersonnel casualty, lossnoun
military personnel lost by death or capture
Synonyms:
passing, red, exit, deprivation, release, red ink, going, personnel casualty, expiration, departureAntonyms:
gainpassing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, releasenoun
euphemistic expressions for death
"thousands mourned his passing"
Synonyms:
sledding, firing, overtaking, liberation, passage, dismissal, expiry, divergence, release, freeing, spill, difference, sacking, personnel casualty, vent, passing game, breathing out, sack, tone ending, deviation, passing play, acquittance, red, departure, press release, outlet, expiration, waiver, button, exhalation, handout, pass, exit, leaving, qualifying, dismission, way out, going, discharge, red ink, issue, going away, spillage, deprivation, termination, passingAntonyms:
gain
Dictionary of English Synonymes
lossnoun
Synonyms:
privation, deprivation, bereavementlossnoun
Synonyms:
forfeiture, failure to winlossnoun
Synonyms:
destruction, overthrow, damage, detriment, ruinlossnoun
Synonyms:
waste, squandering
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
lossnoun
Synonyms:
forfeitureAssociated words:
damnific, damnify, damnification
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "loss":
losses, lost, losing, disappearance, damage, waste, depletion, wastage, casualties, prejudice, undoing, decline, lack, decrease, lose, defeat, leakage, forfeiture, doom, impoverishment
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#254 | want | |
#500 | going | |
#554 | red | |
#604 | issue | |
#625 | release | |
#972 | loss | |
#1079 | lost | |
#1205 | button | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1673 | wrong | |
#1845 | difference | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2246 | missing | |
#2266 | damage | |
#2498 | lack | |
#2620 | injury | |
#3009 | evil | |
#3169 | lose | |
#3214 | leaving | |
#3227 | exit | |
#3448 | outlet | |
#4462 | passing | |
#4574 | losses | |
#4933 | decrease | |
#5093 | hurt | |
#5211 | losing | |
#5374 | departure | |
#5615 | decline | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#5723 | passage | |
#6054 | termination | |
#6159 | harm | |
#8135 | defeat | |
#8838 | doom | |
#8962 | qualifying | |
#9091 | deviation | |
#9331 | waiver | |
#9491 | expiration | |
#10373 | dropping | |
#10456 | prejudice | |
#10997 | impairment | |
#11298 | firing | |
#11371 | vent | |
#11626 | liberation | |
#11777 | spill | |
#14057 | dismissal | |
#15199 | sack | |
#15222 | casualties | |
#15341 | disadvantage | |
#16947 | expiry | |
#17226 | leakage | |
#17473 | injustice | |
#19109 | deprivation | |
#19580 | depletion | |
#20114 | outrage | |
#20318 | handout | |
#21577 | disappearance | |
#22834 | forfeiture | |
#23258 | divergence | |
#24690 | mischief | |
#26476 | freeing | |
#30803 | detriment | |
#33623 | redness | |
#35792 | sledding | |
#43554 | blemish | |
#48660 | undoing | |
#55635 | spillage | |
#57854 | overtaking | |
#60362 | wastage | |
#66000 | sacking | |
#84828 | impoverishment | |
#96144 | exhalation | |
#112192 | privation | |
#229574 | neediness |
How to use loss in a sentence?
I think this team has got it, we just have to stick together and forget about this loss. It is a tough loss, but I think the most important thing right now is to forget about this loss and start thinking about tomorrow because the Spurs are going to come to.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Patients who suffer from decreased or total loss of smell, called ‘hyposmia’ or ‘anosmia’ are deeply affected by this problem, compared to the other special senses, for example, loss of vision or hearing, the loss of smell is often thought of as relatively inconsequential, but this is far from the truth.
Translations for loss
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- خسارةArabic
- pèrduaCatalan, Valencian
- ztráta, prohraCzech
- Verlust, NiederlageGerman
- derrota, pérdidaSpanish
- باخت, زیانPersian
- menetys, tappio, häviö, häviöt, hävikkiFinnish
- perte, défaiteFrench
- callScottish Gaelic
- हानिHindi
- veszteségHungarian
- վնաս, կորուստArmenian
- הפסדHebrew
- 損失, 損益Japanese
- nederlaag, verliezen, krachtverlies, verlies, verslagenheid, warmteverlies, stroomverliesDutch
- tapNorwegian
- zguba, strata, przegrana, straty, utrata, porażkaPolish
- perdaPortuguese
- потеря, проигрыш, поражение, утрата, убытокRussian
- förlustSwedish
- hasaraSwahili
- పరాజయం, నష్టము, ఓటమిTelugu
- kayıpTurkish
- втратаUkrainian
- نقصانUrdu
- mấtVietnamese
- 失利Chinese
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