lose-lose
at the cost of
no joy
teeter
sour note
Kobayashi Maru
negate
cost
doomed
negatively
let-down
hit the fan
court
damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
poisonous
unseverity
negatory
nonpositive
worst
minus
fallout
forelash
hickey
pip
bad
plus
ex negativo
impinge
no
hypernegative
pack a sad
nonprognostic
the cure is worse than the disease
scar tissue
no dice
bite
can't do right for doing wrong
affected
toxic
mixed picture
affirmative
down
nondeath
jeopardy
negativize
negative
unsuccessful
contraction
damnific
evilfare
disappointing
upshot
nonsuffering
doomed if you do, doomed if you don't
sideways
unprognosticated
resultful
kena
gut punch
disavail
accident
shucks
suck
one of these days
irrelievable
hit
bust
prejudice
to little avail
unbeneficial
unrelieving
as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
worse
Sophie's choice
ungladdened
penalty
unbenefitable
negativity
unjubilant
pessimistic
monosymptom
go fish
multisymptomatic
risk
take no for an answer
unfelicitous
unhealth
come home to roost
dire
nosuh
displeased
fatally
result
downside
effectless
lose-lose
doomed
damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
poisonous
negatory
nonpositive
bad
plus
hypernegative
nonprognostic
affected
toxic
affirmative
negative
unsuccessful
damnific
disappointing
sideways
unprognosticated
resultful
irrelievable
unbeneficial
unrelieving
minus
ungladdened
unbenefitable
unjubilant
pessimistic
multisymptomatic
unfelicitous
dire
displeased
effectless
negatively
ex negativo
one of these days
to little avail
fatally
no joy
sour note
Kobayashi Maru
cost
let-down
unseverity
worst
minus
fallout
forelash
hickey
pip
no
scar tissue
mixed picture
down
nondeath
jeopardy
contraction
evilfare
upshot
nonsuffering
gut punch
accident
suck
bust
worse
Sophie's choice
penalty
negativity
monosymptom
risk
unhealth
result
downside
teeter
negate
hit the fan
court
impinge
pack a sad
bite
negativize
kena
disavail
hit
prejudice
take no for an answer
come home to roost
verb
- To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
- To attempt to attract.
- To attempt to gain alliance with.
- To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
- To seek to achieve or win.
- To engage in courtship behavior.
- To try to win a commitment to marry from.
- To engage in behavior leading to mating.
- To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
noun
- An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.
- Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
- A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
- An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
- Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
- Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
- one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
- The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
- The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
- The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
- The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
- The session of a judicial assembly.
- A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
- The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
- A housing estate under the House Ownership Scheme.
noun
noun
- A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
- A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
- An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
- The person who declines such an offer.
- The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
- The particles themselves.
noun
- An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action.
- A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
- A serif or other ornamentation on type.
- A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.
- A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.
adj
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Bold and daring.
- Malodorous; foul.
- Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Evil; wicked.
- Severe, urgent.
- Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- Faulty; not functional.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
verb
adv
intj
noun
adj
- Being positive rather than negative or zero.
- Electrically positive.
- (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
- Positive, or involving advantage.
verb
- To add; to subject to addition.
- To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
- To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
- To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
- To increase in magnitude.
- To increase a correction.
- To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
- To improve.
noun
prep
conj
noun
adj
adv
adj
phrase
- The medical treatment for an illness produces a worse net result than the illness does (or threatens a non-negligible risk of doing so), especially via adverse effects.
- The solution or proposed solution to a problem produces a worse net result than the problem does (or threatens a non-negligible risk of doing so), especially via unintended consequences.
verb
- To have significant effect, often negative.
- To attack with the teeth.
- To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- To take or keep a firm hold.
- To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- To sting.
- To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- To plagiarize, to imitate.
- To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
noun
- A small meal or snack.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- Something unpleasant.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- aggression
- A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- The act of biting.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- An act of plagiarism.
adj
- Severely negative or harmful.
- Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
- Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
- Hateful or strongly antipathetic.
noun
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
adv
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
verb
adj
- Not positive nor neutral.
- Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- Denying a proposition.
- HIV negative.
- COVID-19 negative.
- Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Of a number: less than zero
- Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
verb
intj
noun
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- A right of veto.
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- A word that indicates negation.
- A negative quantity.
- An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
noun
- The acquisition of something, generally negative.
- A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
- A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
- A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
- A reversible reduction in size.
- A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
- The process of contracting a disease.
- A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
- A shortening of a muscle during its use.
noun
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
- A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
- A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
- A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- An instance of incontinence.
- Chance; random chance.
- Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
- An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
- A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
- A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- An unintended pregnancy.
- Any chance event.
- casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
adj
noun
- Badness or mediocrity.
- An act of fellatio.
- Milk drawn from the breast.
- A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
- An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
- An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
- A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
- A sycophant, especially a child.
- The ability to suck; suction.
verb
- To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
- To perform fellatio.
- To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
- To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
- To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
- To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
- To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
verb
- To affect negatively.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
adj
pron
noun
- A disappointment.
- A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
- A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A player who fails to meet expectations.
- A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
adj
verb
- For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- To arrest (someone) for a crime.
- To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- To break in (a woman or girl), To deflower
- To break.
- To exceed a score of 21.
- To break in (an animal).
- An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- To ejaculate; to eject semen.
- To refute an established opening.
- To lose all of one's chips.
- To reduce in rank.
adj
adj
noun
- A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
- A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
- A legal sentence.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
adj
adj
noun
- A possible adverse event or outcome.
- A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
- An entity insured by an insurer.
- The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.
- The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
- The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
- A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
- A financial product (typically an investment).
- A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
verb
noun
- A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
- That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect.
- The final product, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
- The final score in a game.
- The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
intj
verb
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