Definition for Flaw:

• add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective

Synonyms for Flaw:

• n.

  •Achilles heel (noun)
  • weak links,
  • tender spots,
  • heel achilles,
  • chink the armor,
  • achilles-heel,
  • damaging weaknesses.
  •
  • alter ego,
  • incarnation,
  • predisposition.
  •
  • help,
  • better,
  • beautiful,
  • bruise,
  • burnout,
  • breakage,
  • burn.
  •abnormality (noun)
  • deviation,
  • Anomalism,
  • oddity,
  • deformity,
  • eccentricity,
  • aberrancy,
  • exception,
  • aberration,
  • deviance,
  • singularity,
  • peculiarity,
  • deviancy,
  • anomaly.
  •blemish (noun)
  • eyesore,
  • blotch,
  • brand,
  • abrasion,
  • sore,
  • spoilage,
  • defacement,
  • lesion,
  • imperfection,
  • wart,
  • weal,
  • impurity,
  • stigma,
  • discoloration,
  • disfigurement.
  •bug (noun)
  • hitch,
  • failure,
  • problem,
  • trouble,
  • breakdown.
  •crack up (noun)
  • crack.
  •defect (noun)
  • mistake,
  • seam,
  • second,
  • Marring,
  • sin,
  • hole,
  • shortage,
  • catch,
  • patch,
  • gap,
  • birthmark,
  • want,
  • scarcity,
  • unsoundness,
  • break,
  • frailty,
  • injury,
  • weak point,
  • study at defect,
  • lack,
  • glitch.
  •deficiency (noun)
  • demerit,
  • neglect,
  • loss,
  • default,
  • dearth,
  • deficit,
  • insufficiency,
  • paucity,
  • need,
  • privation,
  • dereliction,
  • absence.
  •deformity (noun)
  • asymmetry,
  • crookedness,
  • perversity,
  • bend,
  • corruption,
  • contortion,
  • freakishness,
  • lopsidedness.
  •difficulty, trouble (noun)
  • disadvantage(s).
  •disadvantage(s) (noun)
  • burden,
  • hindrance,
  • restraint,
  • objection,
  • detriment,
  • obstacle,
  • nuisance,
  • liability,
  • stumbling block,
  • snag,
  • bar,
  • blocking,
  • handicap,
  • disability,
  • hamper,
  • adverse circumstance,
  • imposition,
  • hardship,
  • deprivation,
  • inconvenience.
  •disfigurement (noun)
  • de formations,
  • de formation,
  • de-formation,
  • de-formations.
  •downside (noun)
  • disadvantage.
  •drawback (noun)
  • difficulty,
  • evil,
  • ill.
  •error (noun)
  • misdeed,
  • Misbelief,
  • X,
  • Misjudgment,
  • miscue,
  • lapse,
  • inaccuracy,
  • bad job,
  • miscalculation,
  • screamer,
  • oversight,
  • wrongdoing,
  • blunder,
  • slight,
  • misconception,
  • slip,
  • boner,
  • stumble,
  • omission,
  • offense,
  • falsehood,
  • misprint,
  • gaffe,
  • untruth,
  • falsity,
  • screw-up,
  • fall,
  • mismanagement,
  • delusion,
  • distortion,
  • transgression,
  • absurdity,
  • misestimation,
  • typo,
  • miss,
  • trespass,
  • misconstruction,
  • delinquency.
  •failing (noun)
  • failings.
  •fallacy (noun)
  • in-exactness,
  • in validities,
  • misconstruals,
  • faultinesses,
  • in-consistencies,
  • in validity,
  • mis interpretation,
  • pre-conception,
  • non sequiturs,
  • pre conceptions,
  • in consistencies,
  • in-validities,
  • quibblings,
  • in exactness,
  • deceptivenesses,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • mis interpretations,
  • in consistency,
  • mis-interpretation,
  • in-consistency,
  • in-exactnesses,
  • inexactnesses,
  • in exactnesses,
  • pre conception,
  • in-validity,
  • mis-interpretations.
  •fault (noun)
  • slip ups,
  • in discretions,
  • mis conduct,
  • in-discretions,
  • mis-demeanors,
  • mis demeanor,
  • mis-conduct,
  • answerabilities,
  • mis-conducts,
  • mis-demeanor,
  • in-discretion,
  • mis conducts,
  • mis demeanors,
  • evil doings,
  • in discretion,
  • loss innocence.
  •feet of clay (noun)
  • character flaws,
  • feet clay,
  • feet-clay.
  •flaw (noun)
  • slipup,
  • catch-22,
  • weak spot,
  • pitfall,
  • gremlin,
  • vice.
  •flimsiness (noun)
  • shoddinesses,
  • un substantiality,
  • in-substantiality,
  • in-substantialities,
  • un-substantiality,
  • un-substantialities,
  • un substantialities,
  • in substantiality,
  • in substantialities.
  •flurry (noun)
  • out breaks,
  • out break,
  • out-break,
  • out-breaks.
  •rent (noun)
  • dis cords,
  • dis cord,
  • dis-cord,
  • dis-cords.
  •shortfall (noun)
  • in hole,
  • in red,
  • red inks.
  •spot (noun)
  • little bits.
  •taint (noun)
  • dis grace,
  • dis-grace,
  • dis-honors,
  • dis graces,
  • dis honors,
  • dis honor,
  • dis-graces,
  • dis-honor.
  •undoing (noun)
  • mis chances,
  • de feats,
  • mis adventures,
  • over throws,
  • sub-versions,
  • de stroyers,
  • re-verse,
  • un doing,
  • over-throws,
  • mis chance,
  • re-versal,
  • de stroyer,
  • mis-adventure,
  • mis-adventures,
  • re versal,
  • de-feats,
  • over-turn,
  • bad omens,
  • un-doing,
  • sub version,
  • un-doings,
  • de-stroyer,
  • over-throw,
  • un doings,
  • de feat,
  • mis adventure,
  • sub versions,
  • de-stroyers,
  • over turns,
  • over throw,
  • de-feat,
  • sub-version,
  • bad omen,
  • re verse.
  •unevenness (noun)
  • un evennesses,
  • un evenness,
  • un-evennesses,
  • un-evenness.
  •unnaturalness (noun)
  • un naturalnesses,
  • un naturalness,
  • un-naturalness,
  • un-naturalnesses.
  •weakness (noun)
  • faintness,
  • vitiation,
  • sore point,
  • flimsiness,
  • powerlessness,
  • inconstancy,
  • inconstancies,
  • chink in armor.
  •weak point (noun)
  • weak-point.
  •wrongness (noun)
  • wrongness,
  • perversion,
  • incorrectness,
  • fallaciousness,
  • badness,
  • illegality.

• v.

  •blemish (verb)
  • fracture,
  • gash,
  • chip,
  • scrape,
  • discolor,
  • disfigure,
  • blister,
  • damage,
  • scuff,
  • fleck,
  • dot,
  • slit,
  • mark,
  • pockmark,
  • hurt,
  • scratch,
  • stain,
  • hack,
  • score,
  • blot,
  • mole,
  • abrade,
  • notch,
  • mar,
  • deface,
  • nick,
  • tarnish,
  • spoil,
  • freckle,
  • distort,
  • blemish,
  • splotch,
  • check.
  •deform (verb)
  • malform,
  • cripple,
  • mangle,
  • grimace,
  • Misshape,
  • ruin,
  • twist,
  • batter,
  • warp,
  • wince,
  • gnarl,
  • mutilate,
  • skew,
  • buckle,
  • contort,
  • maim.
  •scar (verb)
  • dis figure,
  • dis-figure,
  • dis-figuring,
  • dis figured,
  • dis figuring,
  • dis figures,
  • dis-figured,
  • dis-figures.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • mishap,
  • bungle,
  • indiscretion,
  • overestimate,
  • foul up,
  • endowment,
  • tendency,
  • goof up,
  • quality,
  • misapprehension,
  • streak,
  • cock up,
  • misinterpretation,
  • misstep,
  • snafu,
  • faux pas,
  • quirk,
  • affectation,
  • mistaken identity,
  • trait,
  • pratfall,
  • foible,
  • propensity,
  • false move,
  • blooper,
  • howler,
  • underside,
  • Freudian Slip,
  • persona,
  • muddle,
  • erratum,
  • Disserve,
  • Achilles' Heel,
  • spoonerism.
  •
  • solecism,
  • surface,
  • discrepancy,
  • goof,
  • underestimate,
  • confusion,
  • misunderstanding,
  • bobble,
  • boo-boo,
  • mix up,
  • boob.
  •
  • strain,
  • impair,
  • cloud,
  • limitation,
  • vitiate,
  • injure,
  • sensitivity.
  •
  • fuck up,
  • screw up,
  • side.
  •
  • fluff.
  •
  • trap.
  •deform
  • flawed,
  • Gnarling,
  • grimacing,
  • knotted,
  • Flawing,
  • malformed,
  • Winced,
  • gnarls.

Paraphrases for Flaw:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    weakness.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    failure, handicap, breach.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    shortcoming, fault, drawback, mistake, disadvantage, loophole, imperfection, irregularity, shortfall, failing, error, malfunction, omission, lack, lacuna, Lacunae, inadequacy, blunder, shortage, anomaly, absence, glitch, scarcity, deficit, blemish, abnormality, miscalculation, rift, imbalance, impropriety, breakdown, insufficiency, gash, impairment, inconsistency, problem.

Antonyms for Flaw:

• n.

  • abnormality
    sameness, normality, standard, normalness.
  • defect
    improvement, advantage.
  • deficiency
    superfluity, enough, adequacy, satisfaction, faultlessness, plenty, sufficiency.
  • disadvantage(s)
    good fortune.
  • drawback
    benefit, boon, extra.
  • error
    validity, truth, right, certainty, accuracy, correction.
  • flaw
    perfection, strength, fine point.
  • imperfection
    strong point, blessing.
  • Other antonyms:
    embellishment, decoration, enhancement, ornament, adornment.

• v.

  • deform
    improve, beautify.

Flaw Sentence Examples:

• It certainly does not count for much that I should be unable to find any flaw in my own case, but I think it counts for a good deal that Mr. Gladstone appears to have been equally unable to do so.

• What is the flaw in the masterpiece?

Homophones for Flaw:

• flaugh.

Hypernym for Flaw:

• n.

  • state
    hole, tragic flaw, hamartia, bug, blister, glitch.

Hyponym for Flaw:

• n.

  • state
    imperfection, failing, imperfectness, weakness.

• v.

  • change
    damage.