Loss

Noun

 * 1) an instance of losing, such as a defeat
 * The match ended in their first loss of the season.
 * 1) something that is lost
 * It was written off as a loss.
 * 1) the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone
 * We mourn his loss.
 * 1)  casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict
 * The battle was won, but losses were great.
 * 1)  the sum an entity loses on balance
 * ''The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.
 * 1) destruction, ruin
 * ''It was a terrible crash: both cars were total losses
 * 1)  electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work
 * ''The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid

Antonyms

 * gain
 * win
 * profit

Derived terms

 * loss leader
 * loss ratio
 * at a loss
 * for a loss

Related terms

 * losable
 * losel
 * loser

Adjectives for Loss
consequent; wasteful; proportional; total; threatened; mournful; irreparable; considerable; excessive; disastrous; serious; unendurable; continual; awakened; prospective; infinite;  intolerable;   vague;   frightful; heavy; trifling; financial; tragic; fearful; trivial; melancholy; sickening; crushing; shocking; inconsiderable; dear; moisture; perceptible; slight; petty; gainful; immeasurable; ultimate; imminent; undetectable; aggregate; lamentable; moneyed; irretrievable; tremendous; frightful; complete; appalling; preventable; numerical; maiden; partial; positive; anticipated; grievous.

Verbs for Loss
absorb—; attribute—to; bemoan—; brood over—; cloak—; compensate for—; concede —; counterbalance—; curtail—; deplore— grieve over—; incur—; lament—; lighten— mourn—; occasion—; offset—; outweigh— recoup—s; redress—; regard—; reimburse —; repent—; report—; retrieve—; smart under—; suffer—; sustain—; swallow—; — anguishes; —maddens; — mount; — shames; — soar.

Thesaurus
ablation, annihilation, attrition, bankruptcy, bereavement, breakage, breakdown, collapse, confusion, consumption, corrosion, crack-up, crippling, damage, death, decrement, defeat, deliquescence, demise, denial, depletion, deprivation, deprivement, destruction, detriment, devastation, dilapidation, diminution, disablement, disadvantage, disappearance, disappointment, dispossession, disrepair, dissipation, dissolution, divestment, downfall, drawback, drubbing, dying, encroachment, erosion, exhaustion, extermination, extinction, failure, forfeit, forfeiture, handicap, harm, havoc, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, impoverishment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, liability, losing, losings, loss of ground, losses, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mislaying, misplacement, misplacing, mutilation, passing, prejudice, privation, reduction, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, scathe, shrinkage, sickening, spoiling, squandering, step backward, trouncing, wastage, waste, wasting, weakening, wear and tear

Etymology
Old English has los "loss, destruction," from a Proto-Germanic root *lausam- (see lose), but the modern word probably evolved in the 14th century from lost, the original past participle of lose, itself from losian "be lost, perish," from los "destruction, loss", from a Proto-Germanic root *lausa (compare O.N. los "the breaking up of an army"), from Proto-Indo-Eeuopean base *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart, untie, separate"

Translations

 * Arabic: خسارة
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: pèrdua
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 滅失, 灭失
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * French:
 * German:, Niederlage
 * Japanese: 損失
 * Persian:


 * Polish: utrata, strata, przegrana, porażka
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: проигрыш,  поражение,  потеря,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: derrota
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: ఓటమి (otami), పరాజయం (parAjayam)
 * Vietnamese:


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: pèrdua
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: veszteség
 * Persian:


 * Polish: zguba
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: pérdida
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: నష్టము (nashtamu)
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Polish: strata, utrata


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Hungarian: veszteség


 * Polish: straty
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian: վնաս
 * Catalan: pèrdua
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian: veszteség
 * Japanese:
 * Polish: strata
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch: verlies, stroomverlies (electrical), krachtverlies (mechanical), warmteverlies (thermic)


 * Hungarian: veszteség
 * Japanese:


 * : perdita
 * : tap
 * : pierdere
 * : pérdida
 * : förlust u

Related terms

 * at a loss

Anagrams

 * sols, Sols

Noun

 * 1) castle

Etymology
From German Schloss

Adjective

 * 1) loose, untied

Adverb

 * 1) loosely

Etymology
Related to lös