Exact Match:
- demerit
- the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did"
- a mark against a person for misconduct or failure; usually given in school or armed forces; "ten demerits and he loses his privileges"
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- absence,
- adulteration,
- asymmetry,
- beggary,
- blemish,
- bug,
- catch,
- contrariety,
- crack,
- defect,
- defectibility,
- defection,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- demerit,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- difference,
- disequilibrium,
- disparity,
- disproportion,
- drawback,
- drought,
- erroneousness,
- failing,
- failure,
- fallibility,
- famine,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- faute,
- flaw,
- foible,
- frailty,
- heterogeneity,
- hole,
- imbalance,
- immaturity,
- impairment,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- impurity,
- inaccuracy,
- inadequacy,
- inadequateness,
- incompleteness,
- inequality,
- inequity,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- infirmity,
- injustice,
- insufficiency,
- irregularity,
- kink,
- lack,
- liability,
- little problem,
- mediocrity,
- need,
- nonuniformity,
- odds,
- omission,
- overbalance,
- patchiness,
- problem,
- rift,
- shortage,
- shortfall,
- sin,
- sketchiness,
- snag,
- something missing,
- starvation,
- taint,
- unbalance,
- undevelopment,
- unevenness,
- unfair discrimination,
- unperfectedness,
- unsoundness,
- vulnerable place,
- want,
- wantage,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness
- imperfection
collapse - the state or an instance of being imperfect related words >
- absence,
- arrear,
- arrearage,
- arrears,
- bad habit,
- baseness,
- beggary,
- besetting sin,
- blemish,
- bug,
- catch,
- crack,
- damage,
- decline,
- defalcation,
- default,
- defect,
- defection,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- delinquency,
- demerit,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- drawback,
- drought,
- error,
- failing,
- failure,
- fallibility,
- falling short,
- famine,
- fault,
- faute,
- fewness,
- flaw,
- foible,
- frailty,
- hole,
- impoverishment,
- inadequacy,
- incompetence,
- incompleteness,
- inferiority,
- infirmity,
- insufficiency,
- kink,
- lack,
- little problem,
- littleness,
- maladroitness,
- meanness,
- mediocrity,
- moral flaw,
- need,
- omission,
- peccadillo,
- pettiness,
- problem,
- rift,
- shabbiness,
- short measure,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- sin,
- slump,
- smallness,
- snag,
- something missing,
- starvation,
- subnormality,
- taint,
- triviality,
- underage,
- unskillfulness,
- vice,
- vulgarity,
- vulnerable place,
- want,
- wantage,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weak side,
- weakness
- absence,
- adulteration,
- arrearage,
- arrestment,
- baseness,
- beggary,
- blemish,
- break,
- bug,
- callowness,
- catch,
- crack,
- dearth,
- defalcation,
- default,
- defect,
- defectibility,
- defection,
- defectiveness,
- deficit,
- demerit,
- deprivation,
- dereliction,
- destitution,
- discontinuity,
- drawback,
- drought,
- erroneousness,
- failing,
- failure,
- fallibility,
- famine,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- faute,
- fewness,
- flaw,
- foible,
- frailty,
- gap,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- immaturity,
- impairment,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- impurity,
- inaccuracy,
- inadequacy,
- inadequateness,
- incompetence,
- incompleteness,
- incompletion,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- infirmity,
- insufficiency,
- interval,
- kink,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- little problem,
- littleness,
- maladroitness,
- meanness,
- mediocrity,
- miscarriage,
- missing link,
- need,
- neglect,
- omission,
- outage,
- patchiness,
- pettiness,
- privation,
- problem,
- rift,
- scantiness,
- scrappiness,
- shabbiness,
- short measure,
- short weight,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- sin,
- sketchiness,
- smallness,
- snag,
- something missing,
- starvation,
- subnormality,
- taint,
- triviality,
- ullage,
- underage,
- underdevelopment,
- undevelopment,
- unevenness,
- unperfectedness,
- unskillfulness,
- unsoundness,
- vulgarity,
- vulnerable place,
- want,
- wantage,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness
- sin
collapse
- an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"
- estrangement from god
- the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- (Akkadian) god of the moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview" related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abomination,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- breach,
- commit sin,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- criminal tendency,
- criminality,
- criminosis,
- deadly sin,
- debt,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- delinquency,
- delusion,
- demerit,
- dereliction,
- deviancy,
- diablerie,
- disgrace,
- distortion,
- do amiss,
- do wrong,
- enormity,
- err,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- evil,
- evil courses,
- evildoing,
- failure,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- feloniousness,
- felony,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- genocide,
- guilty act,
- hamartia,
- heavy sin,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- illusion,
- impropriety,
- indiscretion,
- inexpiable sin,
- infamy,
- iniquity,
- injury,
- injustice,
- knavery,
- lapse,
- lawbreaking,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malpractice,
- malum,
- malversation,
- minor wrong,
- misapplication,
- misconduct,
- misconstruction,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misprision,
- misprision of treason,
- mortal sin,
- nonfeasance,
- obliquity,
- offend,
- offense,
- omission,
- outrage,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- perversion,
- positive misprision,
- reprobacy,
- scandal,
- self-contradiction,
- shame,
- shortcoming,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- sinfulness,
- slip,
- thou scarlet sin,
- tort,
- transgress,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- unutterable sin,
- venial sin,
- vice,
- viciousness,
- villainy,
- wickedness,
- wrong,
- wrong conduct,
- wrongdoing,
- wrongness
- downgrade
collapse
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends
- rate lower; lower in value or esteem related words >
- abase,
- abridge,
- adown,
- aslant,
- aslantwise,
- aslope,
- at a slant,
- atilt,
- atrophy,
- belittle,
- below,
- break,
- bump,
- bust,
- cascade,
- cataract,
- chute,
- collapse,
- comedown,
- compress,
- crash,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- damp,
- dampen,
- debacle,
- debase,
- decadence,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- declined,
- declining,
- declivate,
- declivitous,
- declivity,
- declivous,
- decrease,
- decry,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- defluxion,
- degeneracy,
- degeneration,
- degrade,
- demerit,
- demote,
- denigrate,
- deplume,
- depose,
- depreciate,
- depress,
- descending,
- descension,
- descent,
- dethrone,
- devalue,
- devolution,
- diminish,
- dip,
- dipping,
- disenfranchise,
- disfranchise,
- disgrade,
- disparage,
- displace,
- displume,
- dispossess,
- down,
- down south,
- downbend,
- downcome,
- downcurve,
- downfall,
- downflow,
- downgate,
- downhill,
- downline,
- downplay,
- downpour,
- downright,
- downrush,
- downstairs,
- downstream,
- downstreet,
- downtown,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward,
- downward trend,
- downwards,
- downwith,
- drop,
- dropping,
- fall,
- falling,
- falling off,
- falling-off,
- grade,
- gradient,
- gravitation,
- hang,
- hanging,
- humble,
- inclination,
- lessen,
- lower,
- mark down,
- minimize,
- off plumb,
- on the downgrade,
- on the skids,
- on the wane,
- pare,
- play down,
- plummeting,
- pounce,
- rakingly,
- rapids,
- reduce,
- retrench,
- roll back,
- run down,
- scale down,
- shorten,
- simplify,
- slantingly,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- slaunchways,
- slipping,
- slopeways,
- slopingly,
- step down,
- stoop,
- strip of rank,
- swoop,
- take from,
- tipsily,
- tune down,
- undervalue,
- upgrade,
- uphill,
- waning,
- waterfall,
- write down,
- write off
- degrade
collapse
- lower the grade of something; reduce its worth
- reduce the level of land, as by erosion related words >
- abase,
- abash,
- adulterate,
- alloy,
- belittle,
- boot,
- bounce,
- break,
- bring down,
- bring into discredit,
- bring low,
- bring shame upon,
- bump,
- bust,
- can,
- canker,
- cashier,
- cast down,
- cast reproach upon,
- cheapen,
- coarsen,
- confound,
- contaminate,
- corrupt,
- crush,
- cry down,
- debase,
- debauch,
- decry,
- defile,
- deflower,
- defrock,
- degenerate,
- demean,
- demerit,
- demote,
- denature,
- deplume,
- depose,
- deprave,
- deprecate,
- depreciate,
- deprive,
- derogate,
- derogate from,
- desecrate,
- despoil,
- detract,
- detract from,
- devalue,
- dilute,
- diminish,
- disapprove of,
- disbar,
- discharge,
- discredit,
- disemploy,
- disenfranchise,
- disfranchise,
- disgrace,
- disgrade,
- dishonor,
- dismiss,
- disparage,
- displace,
- displume,
- distort,
- downgrade,
- drum out,
- dump,
- dump on,
- expel,
- fire,
- furlough,
- give the ax,
- give the gate,
- hold in contempt,
- humble,
- humiliate,
- impute shame to,
- infect,
- kick,
- kick upstairs,
- knock,
- lay off,
- lessen,
- let go,
- let out,
- lower,
- make little of,
- make redundant,
- minimize,
- misuse,
- mortify,
- pension off,
- pervert,
- pillory,
- poison,
- pollute,
- prostitute,
- put down,
- put to shame,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- read out of,
- reduce,
- reflect discredit upon,
- release,
- remove,
- replace,
- reproach,
- retire,
- rule out,
- run down,
- sack,
- separate forcibly,
- set down,
- shame,
- sink,
- slight,
- speak ill of,
- strip,
- strip of rank,
- submit to indignity,
- superannuate,
- surplus,
- suspend,
- taint,
- take down,
- thin,
- trip up,
- turn off,
- turn out,
- twist,
- ulcerate,
- unfrock,
- unseat,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- vulgarize,
- warp,
- water down,
- weaken
- stigma
collapse
- a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease
- an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod
- the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil related words >
- abscess,
- androecium,
- anther,
- aposteme,
- aspersion,
- attaint,
- badge of infamy,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bed sore,
- bend sinister,
- besmirchment,
- birthmark,
- black eye,
- black mark,
- blain,
- blaze,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blister,
- bloodstain,
- blot,
- blotch,
- blur,
- boil,
- brand,
- broad arrow,
- bubo,
- bulla,
- bunion,
- calyx,
- canker,
- canker sore,
- carbuncle,
- carpel,
- caste mark,
- censure,
- champain,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- check,
- checkmark,
- chilblain,
- cicatrix,
- cold sore,
- corolla,
- corolla tube,
- corona,
- cut,
- dab,
- dapple,
- daub,
- demerit,
- discoloration,
- disfigurement,
- disgrace,
- dishonor,
- disparagement,
- dot,
- earmark,
- engraving,
- epicalyx,
- eschar,
- eyesore,
- felon,
- fester,
- festering,
- fever blister,
- fistula,
- fleck,
- flick,
- flyspeck,
- freckle,
- furuncle,
- furunculus,
- gash,
- gathering,
- graving,
- gumboil,
- gynoecium,
- hack,
- hemorrhoids,
- imputation,
- jot,
- kibe,
- lentigo,
- lesion,
- macula,
- maculation,
- macule,
- mark,
- mark of Cain,
- marking,
- megasporophyll,
- microsporophyll,
- mole,
- mottle,
- nevus,
- nick,
- notch,
- odium,
- onus,
- papula,
- papule,
- paronychia,
- parulis,
- patch,
- perianth,
- petal,
- petechia,
- piles,
- pillorying,
- pimple,
- pistil,
- pock,
- point,
- point champain,
- polka dot,
- polyp,
- prick,
- puncture,
- pustule,
- receptacle,
- reflection,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- rising,
- scab,
- scar,
- scarification,
- score,
- scotch,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- shame,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smouch,
- smudge,
- smut,
- smutch,
- soft chancre,
- sore,
- spatter,
- speck,
- speckle,
- splash,
- splatter,
- splotch,
- spot,
- stain,
- stamen,
- stigmatism,
- stigmatization,
- strawberry mark,
- sty,
- style,
- suppuration,
- swelling,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- tattoo,
- tattoo mark,
- tick,
- tittle,
- torus,
- tubercle,
- ulcer,
- ulceration,
- wale,
- watermark,
- welt,
- wheal,
- whelk,
- whitlow,
- wound
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