Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "loss" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

gain gain profit win

Causes Desire

comfort friend contemplate

Derived Terms

at a loss at a loss for words blood loss bloodloss bone loss capital loss core loss dead loss deadweight loss drip loss ego loss for a loss for the loss generation loss habitat loss hair loss head loss headloss hearing loss hull loss instant loss 2koma loss and damage loss and gain are brothers twain loss condition loss function loss leader loss of consortium loss of face loss of life loss of supply loss prevention loss ratio loss-maker loss-making lossage lossful lossless lossmaker lossproof lossy net loss net operating loss one man's loss is another man's gain operating loss packet loss path loss pregnancy loss profit and loss profit and loss statement sightloss stop loss stop loss order stop-loss stop-loss order tackle for loss total loss vision loss wake loss weight loss without loss of generality

Derived From

lose

Distinct From

wining

Etymologically Related To

lose

Inflected/Variant Forms

lost

Context

engineering financial

Has Property

losing or being lost

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

amount amount of money casualty death decease decline decrement diminution disadvantage experience expiry failure sum sum of money transferred possession transferred property

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

forfeiture misplacement

Type Of (IsA)

decline disadvantage experience failure sum transferred property

Part Of

life war

Related Terms

lose

Related Terms

at loss bad bad effect casualties condition defeat effect instance losable lose losel loser losing power ruin sum

Synonym Network

defeat passing personnel casualty

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.