What are the opposite words for boon?
Boon, as a noun, refers to something that is helpful or beneficial. In contrast, antonyms for the word "boon" include words that refer to something unpleasant or harmful. Some of these words include: curse, bane, affliction, vexation, harm, injury, damage, and hurt. A curse is something that brings bad luck or misfortune, while a bane is a cause of great distress or annoyance. Affliction implies discomfort or suffering, and vexation refers to a feeling of irritation or annoyance. Harm, injury, damage, or hurt all imply some level of physical or emotional pain or suffering. In contrast to boon, these antonyms suggest misfortune or difficulty rather than benefit or advantage.
- evil
- adversity
- difficulty
-
disease
- ill health,
- Sickliness,
- dis ease,
- dis eases,
- dis temper,
- dis tempers,
- dis-ease,
- dis-eases,
- dis-temper,
- dis-tempers,
- endemics,
- flus,
- ill healths,
- in disposition,
- in dispositions,
- in-disposition,
- in-dispositions,
- pathosis,
- sicklinesses,
- un healthiness,
- un healthinesses,
- un-healthiness,
- un-healthinesses,
- unhealthinesses.
- bane
- deterioration
- loss
- hindrance
-
defeat
- kos,
- subjugation,
- Downthrow,
- Insuccess,
- Whaling,
- nonsuccess,
- de feat,
- de feats,
- de-feat,
- de-feats,
- downthrows,
- ex terminations,
- ex-termination,
- ex-terminations,
- in-success,
- in-successes,
- insuccesses,
- ko's,
- lacings,
- non success,
- non successes,
- non-successes,
- nonsuccesses,
- paddlings,
- re buff,
- re buffs,
- re pulses,
- re-buffs,
- re-pulses,
- scalpings,
- subjugations,
- waxings,
- whitewashings.
- blow
- crisis
- descent
-
damage
- cave in,
- mutilation,
- cave ins,
- cave-in,
- cave-ins,
- cavein,
- caveins,
- de basement,
- de basements,
- de privation,
- de privations,
- de-basement,
- de-basements,
- de-privation,
- de-privations,
- dis service,
- dis services,
- dis-service,
- dis-services,
- marrings,
- mis chief,
- mis chiefs,
- mis-chief,
- mis-chiefs,
- mutilations,
- out rages,
- out-rage,
- out-rages,
- ruinings,
- wreckings.
- predicament
-
disappointment
- disenchantment,
- disillusionment,
- letdown,
- setback,
- bringdown,
- unfulfillment,
- adverse fate,
- adverse fates,
- bringdowns,
- dis appointment,
- dis appointments,
- dis content,
- dis contents,
- dis enchantment,
- dis enchantments,
- dis illusion,
- dis illusions,
- dis satisfaction,
- dis satisfactions,
- dis-appointment,
- dis-appointments,
- dis-content,
- dis-contents,
- dis-enchantment,
- dis-enchantments,
- dis-illusion,
- dis-illusions,
- dis-satisfaction,
- dis-satisfactions,
- disenchantments,
- disillusionments,
- flash in pan,
- flash the pan,
- in efficacies,
- in efficacy,
- in-efficacies,
- in-efficacy,
- lack of success,
- lack success,
- mis calculation,
- mis-calculation,
- mis-calculations,
- old one two,
- old one twos,
- old one-twos,
- old onetwo,
- old onetwos,
- the knock,
- the knocks,
- un fulfillments,
- un-fulfillment,
- un-fulfillments,
- unfulfillments.
- anticlimax
- bathos
- cataclysm
- defect
- depredation
- detriment
- disadvantage
- distress
-
doom
- foreordination,
- lap of the gods,
- predetermination,
- foreordinations,
- Fore-ordination,
- de cree,
- de crees,
- de-cree,
- de-crees,
- fixed future,
- fixed futures,
- fore ordination,
- fore ordinations,
- fore-ordinations,
- handwriting on wall,
- handwriting wall,
- lap god,
- lap gods,
- lap of god,
- lap of gods,
- lap of the god,
- lap the god,
- lap the gods,
- pre destination,
- pre destinations,
- pre determination,
- pre-destination,
- pre-destinations,
- pre-determination,
- pre-determinations,
- predeterminations,
- way ball bounce,
- way ball bounces,
- way cookie crumble,
- way cookie crumbles,
- way the ball bounce,
- way the ball bounces,
- way the cookie crumble,
- way the cookie crumbles.
- frustration
- havoc
- impediment
- misery
- misplacement
- pest
- position
- sentimentality
- snag
- stalemate
- accident
- advantage
-
bad luck
- hard cheese,
- hard time,
- ill luck,
- hard luck,
- bad-luck,
- devil luck,
- devil lucks,
- devil own luck,
- devil own lucks,
- devil's luck,
- devil's lucks,
- devil's own luck,
- devil's own lucks,
- devils luck,
- devils lucks,
- devils own luck,
- devils own lucks,
- hard cheeses,
- hard lucks,
- ill lucks,
- mis chance,
- mis chances,
- rotten luck,
- rotten lucks,
- tough break,
- tough breaks.
- blight
- calamity
- catastrophe
- corner
- curse
- debacle
- disaster
-
disgrace
- disbarment,
- Ingloriousness,
- putdown,
- de basing,
- de-basing,
- debasings,
- dis credit,
- dis credits,
- dis esteem,
- dis esteems,
- dis favor,
- dis favors,
- dis grace,
- dis graces,
- dis honor,
- dis honors,
- dis repute,
- dis reputes,
- dis respect,
- dis respects,
- dis-credit,
- dis-credits,
- dis-esteem,
- dis-esteems,
- dis-favor,
- dis-favors,
- dis-grace,
- dis-graces,
- dis-honor,
- dis-honors,
- dis-repute,
- dis-reputes,
- dis-respect,
- dis-respects,
- disbarments,
- humblings,
- in gloriousness,
- in gloriousnesses,
- in-gloriousness,
- in-gloriousnesses,
- ingloriousnesses.
-
embarrassment
- disconcertion,
- self-consciousness,
- awkward situation,
- awkward situations,
- dis composure,
- dis composures,
- dis-composure,
- dis-composures,
- disconcertions,
- egg face,
- egg on face,
- in discretion,
- in discretions,
- in-discretion,
- self consciousness,
- self consciousnesses,
- selfconsciousness,
- selfconsciousnesses,
- un eases,
- un easiness,
- un-ease,
- un-eases,
- un-easiness,
- un-easinesses.
- exigency
- extremity
- flop
- hardship
- impasse
- locus
- melancholy
- misadventure
- misfortune
- mishap
- outlay
- plight
-
retardation
- cunctation,
- demurral,
- logjam,
- prorogation,
- showstopper,
- cooling-off period,
- cooling off period,
- cooling off periods,
- cooling-off periods,
- coolingoff period,
- coolingoff periods,
- cunctations,
- dawdlings,
- demurrals,
- dis continuation,
- dis continuations,
- dis-continuation,
- dis-continuations,
- logjams,
- loiterings,
- pro rogation,
- pro rogations,
- pro-rogation,
- pro-rogations,
- procrastinations,
- prorogations,
- putting offs,
- re mission,
- re missions,
- re-mission,
- re-missions,
- showstoppers,
- sur cease,
- sur ceases,
- sur-cease,
- sur-ceases,
- tarryings,
- tieup.
- rub
- scourge
- setback
- slump
- spot
-
suffering
- woe.
- tragedy
- trouble
- undoing
- woe
- bad luck, situation
- hurt condition; something that causes hurt
- comedown
- ineffective conclusion
- rotten break
-
cause of misery
- bane.
- quandary
- disease; plague
- fiasco
- disaster; tragedy
- blistered infection
- calamity; unhappy conclusion
- dilemma
- letdown, blow
- critical situation
- misfortune wished upon someone
- injury, loss
- stumbling block
- overthrow, beating
- blemish, imperfection
- devastation, destruction
- mental burden
- affliction
- saddening situation; letdown
- accident, trouble
- ailment, affliction
- state of shame; bad reputation
- hardship, adversity
-
fate or decision, usually unpleasant
- doom.
- bad situation
- humiliation, shame
-
badness, immorality; disaster
- evil.
- drawback
-
difficult or ticklish situation
- fix.
-
miserable failure
- flop.
- disappointment, thwarting
- personal burden
- obstruction, hindrance
-
troublesome situation
- jam.
-
misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost
- loss.
- depression, sadness
-
difficulty, predicament
- mess.
- bad luck, mishap
- pain, mental or physical
- expenses
-
person or thing that presents problem
- pest.
- sticky situation
- annoyance, curse
- dilemma, difficulty; situation
-
stroke, massage
- rub.
- plague, torment
- bad or embarrassing situation
- decline, failure
-
complication in situation
- snag.
-
mark, stain
- spot.
- annoyance, worry
- destruction, misfortune
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Other relevant words
- accident,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- bane,
- bereavement,
- casualty,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- chastisement,
- curse,
- denouement,
- detriment,
- disadvantage,
- failure,
- hurt,
- impairment,
- injury,
- injustice,
- loss,
- mischance,
- mischief,
- misery,
- misfortune,
- mishap,
- nemesis,
- outrage,
- prejudice,
- scourge,
- sequel,
- visitation,
- compensation,
- earnings,
- guerdon,
- misanthropic,
- mum,
- mute,
- nongregarious,
- penalty,
- reclusive,
- remuneration,
- reserved,
- reticent,
- silent,
- taciturn,
- unsocial,
- wages,
- Insociable.
- Other antonyms
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