losses
Setbacks and shortfalls
Losses is the plural of loss—things lost, or instances of losing.
Financial losses are money spent beyond income: The company reported losses of two million dollars.
Military losses are casualties: Both sides suffered heavy losses.
In sports, losses are games not won: a record of twelve wins and three losses.
The word often appears with cutting or minimizing: cut your losses, stop the losses.
Losses of life
- deathsPermanent cessations of life
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- injuredHaving sustained harm
killed · toll · missing · survivors · civilians · combat · battlefield · wartime
Legal status when insolvent
- debtMoney owed another
- deficitAmount still owed
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- write-offRecorded value reduction
foreclosure · liquidation · default · arrears · devaluation · depreciation · shortfall · impairment
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
grief · lamentation · grieving · coping · healing · memorial · eulogy · remembrance
Lack of something needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- lackDeficiency or absence
insufficiency · privation · want · starvation · famine · malnutrition · poverty · hardship
Overwhelming one-sided victory
- thrashingDecisive, lopsided defeat
- drubbingDecisive, lopsided defeat
- upsetDisturb, topple, or shock
- shutoutGame with lopsided scoring
blowout · streak · setback · debacle · collapse · downfall · beaten · vanquished
Using poorly, inefficiently
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- degenerationProgressive loss of function
- weaknessDeficiency in force
- shrinkageDecrease in size
debilitation · frailty · aging · decline
fatalities
Losses of life
- deathsPermanent cessations of life
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- woundedHaving sustained harm
injured · killed · toll · missing · survivors · civilians · combat · battlefield · wartime · disaster
bankruptcy
Legal status when insolvent
- debtMoney owed another
- deficitAmount still owed
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
write-off · foreclosure · liquidation · default · arrears · devaluation · depreciation · shortfall · impairment · creditors
mourning
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
anguish · grief · lamentation · grieving · coping · healing · memorial · eulogy · remembrance · condolence
deficiency
Lack of something needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- dearthAcute shortage of something
lack · insufficiency · privation · want · starvation · famine · malnutrition · poverty · hardship · destitution
rout
Overwhelming one-sided victory
shutout · blowout · streak · setback · debacle · collapse · downfall · beaten · vanquished · surrender
wasting
Using poorly, inefficiently
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- degenerationProgressive loss of function
- weaknessDeficiency in force
shrinkage · debilitation · frailty · aging · decline
- bankingbank, banks, ATM, ATMs, account
- business problemscash flow, hiring, staffing, payroll, expenses
- business troublesbankruptcy, crisis, failure, insolvency, layoffs
- declinesdrop, decline, downtrend, downturn, downfall
- failuresfailure, failures, flop, flops, bust
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
lossesgains
Increases in value
acquisitions · recoveries · finds · discoveries · retentions
- memory lossFailure to recall
- weight lossReduction in body mass
- at a lossPerplexed, without direction
- hair lossDiminishing scalp coverage
- total lossIrreparably damaged item
- at a loss for wordsUnable to articulate