Word Meanings - IMPAIRMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPAIRMENT)

• Alloy
• Admixture
• deterioration
• adulteration
• drawback
• diminution
• decrement
• impairment
• debasement
• depreciation
• disparagement
• Detriment
• Loss
• harm
• hurt
• injury
• disadvantage
• prejudice
• damage
• inconvenience
• Prejudice
• Prepossession
• prejudgment
• predisposition
• bias
• unfairness
• detriment
• partiality
• Weakness
• Debility
• feebleness
• enervation
• dilution
• languor
• imbecility
• infirmity
• decrepitude
• frailty
• faintness
• inconclusiveness
• worthlessness
• want

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPAIRMENT)

• Suit
• aid
• benefit
• subserve
• assist
• help

Related words: (words related to IMPAIRMENT)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• ALLOYAGE
  The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• IMBECILITY
  The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• INCONVENIENCE
  1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies
• ASSISTLESS
  Without aid or help. Pope.
• PREJUDGMENT
  The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.
• ASSISTOR
  A assister.
• DETRIMENTAL
  Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison. Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious.
• WEAKNESS
  1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
• INDAMAGED
  Not damaged. Milton.
• ENDAMAGE
  To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton.
• UNALLOYED
  Not alloyed; not reduced by foreign admixture; unmixed; unqualified; pure; as, unalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness. I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company. Mitford.
• ENDAMAGEMENT
  Damage; injury; harm. Shak.