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.

  •
  • destruction,
  • the ravages of something,
  • havoc,
  • decay,
  • sabotage,
  • devastation,
  • ruin,
  • demolition.
  •badness (noun)
  • inadvisability,
  • baseness,
  • malfeasance,
  • blackness,
  • wrongness,
  • turpitude,
  • depravity,
  • unpleasantness,
  • vice.
  •damage (noun)
  • pollution,
  • mutilation,
  • cave-ins,
  • mutilations,
  • cave in,
  • cave-in.
  •deprivation (noun)
  • dis possessions,
  • dis possession,
  • with holding,
  • de-privations,
  • de-privation,
  • with-holdings,
  • dis-possession,
  • with-holding,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis tresses,
  • dis tress,
  • dis-possessions,
  • divestments,
  • with holdings,
  • de privation,
  • de privations,
  • dis-tresses.
  •difficulty, trouble (noun)
  • disadvantage(s).
  •disability (noun)
  • in capacity,
  • dis-qualifications,
  • in capacities,
  • in competency,
  • in-competency,
  • in-experience,
  • in-competencies,
  • dis qualifications,
  • in-capacities,
  • in competencies,
  • un-fitnesses,
  • un fitnesses,
  • in experiences,
  • in-validity,
  • dis qualification,
  • in validity,
  • in-validities,
  • in-capacity,
  • un-fitness,
  • in experience,
  • in-experiences,
  • un fitness,
  • in validities,
  • dis-qualification.
  •disadvantage (noun)
  • liability,
  • spoiling,
  • impairment,
  • Marring,
  • mischief.
  •disadvantage(s) (noun)
  • dis-commodity,
  • dis-commodities,
  • in-adequacy,
  • fly the ointment,
  • in convenience,
  • adverse circumstance,
  • in-utility,
  • in-convenience,
  • in utility,
  • fly in ointment,
  • dis commodities,
  • in-conveniences,
  • dis-advantages,
  • in utilities,
  • dis advantages,
  • dis commodity,
  • in-utilities,
  • fly ointment,
  • in conveniences,
  • in adequacy,
  • in adequacies,
  • in-adequacies,
  • blockings.
  •disservice (noun)
  • in justice,
  • injustice,
  • bad turn.
  •event (noun)
  • detriment.
  •evil (noun)
  • evil,
  • monstrosity,
  • calamitousness,
  • disgrace,
  • Repellency,
  • badness,
  • offensiveness,
  • heinousness,
  • repulsiveness,
  • reprehensibleness,
  • damnation,
  • terribleness,
  • bane,
  • nefariousness,
  • foulness,
  • abomination,
  • wickedness,
  • hideousness,
  • sinisterness,
  • atrocity.
  •handicap (noun)
  • re striction,
  • re-striction,
  • psychological baggages,
  • re-strictions,
  • re strictions.
  •harm (noun)
  • mis fortune,
  • deleteriousnesses,
  • banefulnesses,
  • mis-chances,
  • wear tear,
  • mis chance,
  • mis fortunes,
  • noxiousnesses,
  • sinfulnesses,
  • perniciousnesses,
  • mis chances,
  • mis-chance,
  • mis-fortunes.
  •hurt (noun)
  • dis comfort,
  • black blue,
  • black and blues,
  • illtreatment,
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis comforts,
  • ill-treatments,
  • ill treatment,
  • dis-comforts,
  • black and blue,
  • illtreatments,
  • black blues.
  •prejudice (noun)
  • dis-relish,
  • jaundiced eyes,
  • dis-gusts,
  • pre possession,
  • dis relish,
  • narrow mindedness,
  • dis relishes,
  • pre-possession,
  • dis pleasure,
  • narrowmindednesses,
  • pre possessions,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • un fairness,
  • un-fairness,
  • one sidedness,
  • dis crimination,
  • dis gust,
  • pre-conception,
  • pre-judgments,
  • pre-judgment,
  • jaundiced eyne,
  • mis judgments,
  • dis-gust,
  • un fairnesses,
  • bad opinions,
  • jaundiced eyen,
  • un-fairnesses,
  • dis pleasures,
  • dis-criminations,
  • dis gusts,
  • dis-relishes,
  • dis criminations,
  • mis-judgment,
  • dis-crimination,
  • narrow-mindednesses,
  • pre judgments,
  • mis judgment,
  • xenophobias,
  • pre-possessions,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • narrow mindednesses,
  • mis-judgments,
  • pre conceptions,
  • contemptuousnesses,
  • dis-pleasure,
  • pre judgment,
  • pre conception.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • boo-boo,
  • cost,
  • damage,
  • dead weight,
  • deformation,
  • deprivation,
  • disability,
  • disadvantage,
  • disservice,
  • drawback,
  • encumbrance,
  • flaw,
  • fly in the ointment,
  • handicap,
  • harm,
  • hurt,
  • ill-treatment,
  • illiberality,
  • impediment,
  • inadequacy,
  • incompetency,
  • infirmity,
  • inhibition,
  • injury,
  • inutility,
  • invalidity,
  • leak,
  • leakage,
  • loss,
  • millstone,
  • minus,
  • narrow-mindedness,
  • noxiousness,
  • percolation,
  • perniciousness,
  • prejudgment,
  • prejudice,
  • racism,
  • retardation,
  • scar,
  • sinfulness,
  • xenophobia,
  • Discommodity,
  • Divestment,
  • Retardment,
  • Short circuit,
  • Contemptuousness,
  • sores,
  • ill treatments,
  • short circuits,
  • prohibitions,
  • BADS,
  • booboos,
  • illiberalities,
  • failings,
  • deformations,
  • minuses,
  • inutilities,
  • Downs,
  • prejudgments,
  • booboo,
  • leakages,
  • withholdings,
  • outgoings,
  • Banefulness,
  • deleteriousness,
  • jaundiced eye,
  • bad opinion,
  • adverse circumstances,
  • boo-boos,
  • discommodities,
  • hangup,
  • invalidities,
  • leakings,
  • narrowmindedness,
  • out goings,
  • psychological baggage,
  • road block,
  • onesidedness.
  •v.
  • deed,
  • effect,
  • result.

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.

Detriment Sentence Examples:

• Fame, the plaudits of the world, the highest scientific honours - all these in my effort to annihilate her, I had deliberately thrust upon this woman to my own everlasting detriment and disgrace.

• Then he proceeded to slide down the banister, to the trifling detriment of his waistcoat.

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.