Definition for Detriment:

• That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; - used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc.

Synonyms for Detriment:

• n.

  •
  • havoc,
  • sabotage,
  • ruin,
  • destruction.
  •badness (noun)
  • inadvisability,
  • baseness,
  • malfeasance,
  • blackness,
  • wrongness,
  • turpitude,
  • depravity,
  • unpleasantness,
  • vice.
  •damage (noun)
  • mutilation,
  • pollution.
  •disadvantage (noun)
  • liability,
  • spoiling,
  • impairment,
  • Marring,
  • mischief.
  •evil (noun)
  • evil,
  • monstrosity,
  • calamitousness,
  • disgrace,
  • Repellency,
  • badness,
  • offensiveness,
  • heinousness,
  • repulsiveness,
  • reprehensibleness,
  • damnation,
  • terribleness,
  • bane,
  • nefariousness,
  • foulness,
  • abomination,
  • wickedness,
  • hideousness,
  • sinisterness,
  • atrocity.
  •loss (noun)
  • losing,
  • losses.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • crack-up,
  • leaven,
  • calamity,
  • constitute,
  • haggard,
  • corruption,
  • disruption,
  • encroachment,
  • infection,
  • breakage,
  • elevate,
  • defilement,
  • collapse,
  • ill,
  • ruinously,
  • canker,
  • inroad,
  • bad,
  • emit,
  • standard,
  • defect,
  • introduce,
  • despoilment,
  • spoliation,
  • alloy,
  • catch,
  • breakdown,
  • earn,
  • hitch,
  • waste,
  • lesion,
  • perversion,
  • create,
  • lose,
  • bring,
  • furnish,
  • expense,
  • Delaceration,
  • robbery,
  • Inquination,
  • dispossession,
  • total loss,
  • damagingly,
  • threadbare,
  • get,
  • dilapidation,
  • losing streak,
  • injure,
  • stumbling block,
  • venom,
  • Hurter,
  • sacrifice,
  • befoulment,
  • disrepair,
  • bias,
  • outrage,
  • discoloration,
  • scathe,
  • develop,
  • prosaic,
  • contamination,
  • violate,
  • taking away,
  • grievance,
  • obstruction,
  • describe,
  • hurdle,
  • infringement,
  • necessitate,
  • vitiation,
  • obstacle,
  • induce,
  • harmfulness,
  • bring in,
  • wrong,
  • vexation,
  • hackneyed,
  • ruination,
  • fetch,
  • despoliation,
  • deterioration,
  • deliver,
  • oxidation,
  • establish,
  • Incapacitation,
  • drowsy,
  • commonplace,
  • mayhem,
  • abuse,
  • misfortune,
  • problem,
  • affliction,
  • trauma,
  • hindrance,
  • clear,
  • impair,
  • price,
  • shopsoiled,
  • dangerously,
  • trite,
  • disinterest,
  • humdrum,
  • bankruptcy,
  • ravage,
  • jaded,
  • banal,
  • hurtfully,
  • difficulty,
  • wreckage,
  • unglamorous,
  • poisoning,
  • disablement,
  • blight,
  • loser,
  • attain,
  • forfeit,
  • tired,
  • sickening,
  • suffering,
  • crippling,
  • distress,
  • debit,
  • spoil,
  • shopworn,
  • timeworn,
  • toxin,
  • denial,
  • Defoedation,
  • involve,
  • Hobbling,
  • injuriously,
  • woe,
  • generate,
  • trouble,
  • perdition,
  • adopt,
  • weakening,
  • hurting,
  • choose,
  • originate,
  • snag,
  • adulteration,
  • step backward,
  • privation,
  • prostitution,
  • Scath,
  • tamper with,
  • stripping,
  • Ruinousness,
  • unglamourous,
  • denudation,
  • poison,
  • detrimentally,
  • send,
  • forfeiture,
  • Maiming,
  • venenation,
  • disadvantageously,
  • bereavement,
  • harmfully.

Paraphrases for Detriment:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    impairment.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    stresses, men, prejudice, burden, Endangerment, Endangering, infringement, exclusion, undermining, loss, injurious, deterioration, unfavourable, encroachment, handicap, devastation, disruption, brunt, erosion.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    disadvantage, expense, damage, harm, injury, cost, disservice, downside, drawback, inconvenience, contempt.

Antonyms for Detriment:

• n.

  • disadvantage
    gain, advantage, assistance, profit, favor, blessing, boon, good, benefit, help, aid.
  • Other antonyms:
    healing, amelioration, improvement, cure, utility, recovery, fix, remedy, service.

Homophones for Detriment:

• drown out, dairymaid, dreamed, determined, deodorant, death warrant, dry mouth, durant, deodourant, drawn-out, determent, darned, drained, drum out, doormat, dry unit, deerhound, deterrent, determinate, deer hunt, drumhead, durante, drowned, durum wheat, dethronement, determinant, dormant.

Hypernym for Detriment:

• n.

  • event
    expense.

Hyponym for Detriment:

• n.

  • event
    harm, damage, impairment.