Definition for Loss:

• Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle.

Synonyms for Loss:

• n.

  •
  • disaster,
  • trial,
  • accident,
  • cataclysm,
  • misadventure,
  • sacrifice,
  • giving up,
  • catastrophe,
  • trouble,
  • bereavement,
  • calamity,
  • perdition,
  • mishap.
  •
  • misery,
  • regret,
  • grief,
  • sadness,
  • remorse,
  • wound,
  • disappointment,
  • sorrow,
  • distress.
  •
  • get,
  • bruising,
  • scrape,
  • sprain.
  •
  • rich,
  • give,
  • snag,
  • flip side.
  •abandonment (noun)
  • forfeiture.
  •act (noun)
  • loss.
  •bankruptcy (noun)
  • non payment,
  • over-drafts,
  • de fault,
  • de-faults,
  • non-payments,
  • over-draft,
  • non payments,
  • destitutenesses,
  • pauperisms,
  • de faults,
  • de-fault,
  • over drafts,
  • over draft.
  •bottom line (noun)
  • pro fit,
  • what it about,
  • what it's abouts,
  • in comes,
  • de terminations,
  • what it all abouts,
  • in come,
  • sum substances,
  • whole stories,
  • pro fits,
  • main ideas,
  • in-come,
  • name the game,
  • sum substance,
  • what it's about,
  • sum and substances,
  • what its all about,
  • nittygritty,
  • what it all about,
  • meat potatoes,
  • nuts bolts,
  • what its about,
  • de-terminations,
  • what its abouts,
  • de-termination,
  • what it's all abouts,
  • what it abouts,
  • pro-fits,
  • main things,
  • de termination,
  • in-comes,
  • name game,
  • what its all abouts,
  • final decisions.
  •casualty (noun)
  • injureds,
  • death tolls,
  • killeds,
  • woundeds.
  •consumption (noun)
  • de-cay,
  • de cays,
  • de-cays,
  • drinkings,
  • de solations,
  • de cay,
  • de-solation,
  • wear tear,
  • consumings,
  • de-solations,
  • de solation,
  • using ups.
  •death (noun)
  • necrosis,
  • eternal rest,
  • finis,
  • after life,
  • passing,
  • finises.
  •decline (noun)
  • de-scents,
  • de cline,
  • in-clines,
  • fall offs,
  • de-scent,
  • downtrends,
  • drop offs,
  • de scents,
  • in-cline,
  • drop-offs,
  • in cline,
  • in clines,
  • de clines,
  • de-clines,
  • de scent,
  • fall-offs,
  • de-cline,
  • falloffs.
  •decrease (noun)
  • waning,
  • shrinkage,
  • Striction,
  • decrescence.
  •defeat (noun)
  • Whaling,
  • subjugation,
  • massacre,
  • trouncings,
  • nonsuccess,
  • killing,
  • thrashing,
  • lacings,
  • Insuccess,
  • kos,
  • Vanquishment,
  • waxings,
  • Downthrow,
  • non-success,
  • subjugations.
  •deficiency (noun)
  • in sufficiencies,
  • de merit,
  • in-sufficiencies,
  • in-sufficiency,
  • de-merits,
  • de-merit,
  • inability hack it,
  • insufficiences,
  • in sufficiency,
  • de merits.
  •deficit (noun)
  • in hocks,
  • dead horses,
  • in red,
  • in-adequacies,
  • in adequacy,
  • in adequacies,
  • in-adequacy,
  • red inks,
  • in hole,
  • due bills.
  •departure (noun)
  • departure.
  •deprivation (noun)
  • dis-tresses,
  • dis-advantages,
  • with-holdings,
  • de privations,
  • with-holding,
  • divestments,
  • de privation,
  • dis advantage,
  • dis advantages,
  • with holding,
  • dis tresses,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis tress,
  • de-privations,
  • dis-advantage,
  • with holdings,
  • de-privation.
  •destruction (noun)
  • crashings,
  • shipwreck,
  • crushings,
  • devastation,
  • sackings,
  • ruination,
  • slayings.
  •detriment (noun)
  • marrings,
  • dis service,
  • mis chiefs,
  • mis-chief,
  • dis-services,
  • dis-service,
  • mis-chiefs,
  • spoilings,
  • mis chief,
  • dis services.
  •devastation (noun)
  • de predations,
  • de-foliation,
  • de predation,
  • de-predation,
  • de-foliations,
  • defoliations,
  • de foliation,
  • de-predations,
  • de foliations.
  •disappearance (noun)
  • decline and fall,
  • disappearing act,
  • ceasing to exist,
  • wearing away,
  • dematerialization,
  • Vanishment,
  • ebbings.
  •dispossession (noun)
  • dis possessions,
  • dis possession,
  • dis-possession,
  • dis-possessions.
  •exit (noun)
  • exit.
  •expense (noun)
  • out-puts,
  • out puts,
  • in vestment,
  • de bits,
  • out-put,
  • sur charge,
  • outdi,
  • up keeps,
  • out put,
  • out-lays,
  • in vestments,
  • out lays,
  • up-keep,
  • up keep,
  • sur-charges,
  • sur-charge,
  • out pocket,
  • de bit,
  • in-vestment,
  • up-keeps,
  • over-heads,
  • in-vestments,
  • de-bits,
  • sur charges,
  • de-bit,
  • out-lay,
  • over heads.
  •expiration (noun)
  • expiration.
  •failure (noun)
  • lapse,
  • nonperformance,
  • lemon,
  • crash,
  • Non-performance,
  • breakdown,
  • nonfeasance,
  • lead balloon,
  • faux pas,
  • fiasco,
  • Unsuccess,
  • sinking ship,
  • error,
  • total loss,
  • insolvency,
  • loser,
  • unsuccessfulness,
  • implosion,
  • debacle,
  • washout,
  • malfunction,
  • collapse.
  •fall (noun)
  • de-gradations,
  • de-gradation,
  • sur renders,
  • de gradation,
  • sur-render,
  • de gradations,
  • sur-renders.
  •forfeiture (noun)
  • giving ups.
  •harm (noun)
  • mis-chances,
  • mis chance,
  • noxiousnesses,
  • out-rages,
  • mis-chance,
  • deleteriousnesses,
  • out rages,
  • sinfulnesses,
  • banefulnesses,
  • out-rage,
  • mis chances,
  • perniciousnesses.
  •havoc (noun)
  • shambles,
  • havoc.
  •hurt (noun)
  • dis comforts,
  • black blue,
  • dis-comfort,
  • ill-treatments,
  • dis comfort,
  • black and blues,
  • dis-comforts,
  • illtreatments,
  • black and blue,
  • ill treatment,
  • black blues,
  • illtreatment.
  •injury (noun)
  • de formation,
  • in-juries,
  • in-dignities,
  • in-justice,
  • de-formations,
  • in jury,
  • in-jury,
  • de-formation,
  • in dignity,
  • in-dignity,
  • in justices,
  • de formations,
  • in juries,
  • in dignities.
  •insolvency (noun)
  • in-solvencies,
  • in solvency,
  • in-solvency,
  • in solvencies.
  •lack (noun)
  • shortness,
  • exiguity,
  • retrenchment,
  • retrenchments,
  • shrinking,
  • slightness.
  •leak (noun)
  • out-going,
  • out going,
  • out-goings,
  • percolations.
  •licking (noun)
  • licking.
  •loss (noun)
  • exhaustion,
  • attrition,
  • setback,
  • decrement,
  • ruin,
  • privation,
  • depletion,
  • dissolution,
  • going,
  • erosion,
  • release,
  • divestiture,
  • dissipation,
  • debit,
  • personnel casualty,
  • expropriation.
  •losses (noun)
  • write off.
  •misfortune (noun)
  • un lucks,
  • un luck,
  • un-luck,
  • mis fortune,
  • un-lucks,
  • mis-fortune,
  • unlucks.
  •misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost (noun)
  • retardation,
  • destitution,
  • debt,
  • Mislaying,
  • squandering,
  • undoing,
  • disadvantage,
  • want,
  • impairment,
  • bad luck,
  • need,
  • Misplacing,
  • fatality,
  • waste,
  • wreckage.
  •misfortune/mishap (noun)
  • in-felicities,
  • un-pleasantness,
  • bad breaks,
  • in felicities,
  • in conveniences,
  • in-conveniences,
  • in felicity,
  • stroke bad luck,
  • mis fortunes,
  • in-felicity,
  • rotten lucks,
  • un pleasantnesses,
  • hard lucks,
  • tough lucks,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • un pleasantness,
  • in-convenience,
  • casualities,
  • un-pleasantnesses.
  •miss (noun)
  • mis-takes,
  • mis takes,
  • over sights,
  • over-sights,
  • over-sight,
  • mis take,
  • mis-take,
  • over sight.
  •nonfeasance (noun)
  • non feasances,
  • non feasance,
  • non-feasances.
  •obliteration (noun)
  • obliteration.
  •passing (noun)
  • Defunction.
  •relapse (noun)
  • relapse,
  • recurrence,
  • turn for the worse.
  •ruin (noun)
  • crackups,
  • crackup,
  • the end.
  •shortfall (noun)
  • in completenesses,
  • defectivenesses,
  • in completeness,
  • incompletenesses,
  • in-completeness,
  • in-completenesses.
  •toll (noun)
  • in-road,
  • in road.
  •unfortunateness (noun)
  • un fortunatenesses,
  • un fortunateness,
  • un-fortunateness,
  • un-fortunatenesses.
  •unluckiness (noun)
  • un luckinesses,
  • un luckiness,
  • un-luckiness,
  • un-luckinesses.
  •unsuccess (noun)
  • un successes,
  • un success,
  • un-success,
  • un-successes.
  •unsuccessfulness (noun)
  • un successfulnesses,
  • un successfulness,
  • un-successfulness,
  • un-successfulnesses.
  •untowardness (noun)
  • un-towardnesses,
  • un towardnesses,
  • un towardness,
  • un-towardness.
  •vanishment (noun)
  • fade outs,
  • fadeouts,
  • fade-outs.
  •waste (noun)
  • Unthriftiness,
  • wastage,
  • lost opportunity,
  • wastages.
  •wear (noun)
  • in-roads,
  • in roads.

• v.

  •confused (verb)
  • puzzled,
  • undecided,
  • unsure,
  • at sea,
  • doubtful.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • nonattendance,
  • shortage,
  • outgo,
  • compound fracture,
  • grievous bodily harm,
  • absence,
  • rupture,
  • deprival,
  • drawback,
  • fracture,
  • wear and tear,
  • self-harm,
  • downside,
  • self-injury,
  • misplacement,
  • poverty,
  • Without,
  • inefficiency,
  • concussion,
  • stress fracture,
  • reduction,
  • absent.
  •
  • limitation,
  • handicap,
  • losing,
  • trauma.
  •
  • cutting,
  • bruise.
  •
  • price,
  • minus.
  •
  • bite.
  •flight
  • rout.
  •injury
  • damage.

Paraphrases for Loss:

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    deaths.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    damage, decline, failure, death.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    losses.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    allowances, loses.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    defeats, decrease, diminution, reduction, destruction, toll, deterioration, extirpation, deprivation, degradation, detriment, prejudice, lack, disqualification, undoing, interruption, cost, mourning, deletion, wasting.
  • Verb, past tense
    decreased, Incurred.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    costs, wastes, requires, Does.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    lost, losing.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    depletion, lost, impoverishment, losing, downfall, erosion, shipwreck, loser, bereavement, shrinkage, profit, sinking, elimination, fall, termination, harm.
  • Verb, past tense
    lost.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    loses.

Antonyms for Loss:

• n.

  • misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost
    creation, improvement, help, plenty, aid, good fortune, advantage, win, good luck, gain, achievement, accomplishment, favor, happiness, wonder, development, assistance, benefit, boon, miracle, profit, fortune, building, triumph, attainment, birth, comfort, success, blessing.
  • Other antonyms:
    keeping, remodeling, gainer, runaway, refurbishment, victor, saving, blowout, hands, murderer, cakewalk, walkaway, preservation, romp, Regeneracy, control, salvage, remedy, protection, enlargement, re-creation, renovation, uptrend, possession, conservation, landslide, ownership, continuation, upturn, uptick, extension, reconstruction, restoration, acquisition, winner, amelioration, upswing, walkover, utility, harmer, rescue, service, construction, raising, sweep, acquiring, salvation, Injurer, accumulation.

Loss Sentence Examples:

• I am sorry I could not save you from loss also.

• The other will prove not the less a dead loss.

Homophones for Loss:

• liliales, lie awake, leigh, Louis Ix, like, lakh, lxii, leek, liliaceous, lascaux, lac wax, leach, Louis Ii, lash, lachaise, lucy, liaise, lag, leech, laugh away, loch, lees, laos, luxe, leo xiii, lichee, leash, lasix, lxxxii, lewis, logo, lichi, leak, loos, louis, lacy, leg, lock, Louis I, lilylike, lxi, llullaillaco, loess, laws, leaky, liege, Louis Iii, lallygag, lochia, lockjaw, louche, loose, logic, low-key, Lech, Lusaka, leuciscus, loco, leo ix, lackey, lisu, lax, loligo, log, lease, locus, lysis, lazy, Louis XI, lace, lack, laicise, Louis Xii, lxxi, lek, laius, loloish, lake, lass, loki, logos, less, luge, likewise, loge, louse, loggia, lough, lassie, lock away, Liliaceae, lxxii, loxia, league, Louis Agassiz, luce, laugh, loasaceae, Leo Esaki, lxxx, lollygag, lxxxi, leechee, lockage, Lake Cayuga, lychee, Louis X, look, Lugh, leakey, lhasa, liza, luscious, lousy, luik, lux, log z's, losses, lazio, lawless, lycia, lucas, lao-zi, lycosa, leacock, lilac, lxxxiii, locke, laze, lick, leggy, lygus, laicize, lycee, lachesis, lechwe, lxx, legs, logy, legacy, Louis Xiii, lxxiii, lox, lx, lose, lasso, loasa, lugosi, loach, Leo X, lac, luggage, leakage, lassa, Los, lush, lewisia, lossy, lexis, laic, luke, lxiii, lagos, Lego, lyssa, loquacious, lug, luck, lessee, look away, lucky, lake keuka.

Hypernym for Loss:

• n.

  • act
    default, capitulation, fall, surrender.
  • possession
    forfeiture, sacrifice, wastage, financial loss, forfeit.
  • process
    reducing, epilation.

Hyponym for Loss:

• n.

  • act
    failure.
  • event
    experience.
  • possession
    transferred property, transferred possession.
  • process
    diminution, decline.