Word Meanings - DETRIMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc. I can repair That detriment, if such it be. Milton. 2. A charge made to students and

Additional info about word: DETRIMENT

1. That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc. I can repair That detriment, if such it be. Milton. 2. A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy. Syn. -- Injury; loss; damage; disadvantage; prejudice; hurt; mischief; harm.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DETRIMENT)

• Harm
• Hurt
• mischief
• injury
• detriment
• damage
• evil
• wrong
• misfortune
• ill
• mishap
• wound
• Loss
• Mislaying
• dropping
• forfeiture
• missing
• privation
• waste
• Mischief
• Damage
• hurt
• disservice
• annoyance
• ill-turn
• barm
• Prejudice
• Prepossession
• prejudgment
• predisposition
• bias
• unfairness
• harm
• impairment
• partiality
• disadvantage

Related words: (words related to DETRIMENT)

• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• MISSEL
  Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• MISSIFICATE
  To perform Mass. Milton.
• MISSTAYED
  Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
• MISSILE
  A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• MISSAY
  1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
• WRONG
  1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• MISSTATE
  To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• MISSIONER
  A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden.
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• COMMISSARY
  An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• EAVESDROPPER
  One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• INDAMAGED
  Not damaged. Milton.