bane

Main Entry:
bane [beyn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cause of misery
Synonyms: affliction, blight, burden, bête noir, calamity, curse, despair, destruction, disaster, downfall, fatal attraction, misery, nuisance, pest, plague, poison, ruin, ruination, scourge, torment, trial, trouble, undoing, venom, woe
Antonyms: advantage, blessing, fortune, good luck
Main Entry: anathema
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something hated
Synonyms: abomination, bane, bugbear, detestation, enemy, hate, pariah
Antonyms: love
Main Entry: bête noire
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disliked person
Synonyms: adversary, anathema, antagonist, bad news, bad news, bane, bitter enemy, bugbear, competitor, curse, devil, enemy, foe, opponent, pet hate, plague, rival, trouble
Main Entry: blight
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disease; plague
Synonyms: affliction, bane, blot on the landscape, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe
Antonyms: blessing, boon, health, prosperity
Main Entry: canker
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blistered infection
Synonyms: bane, blight, blister, boil, cancer, corrosion, corruption, lesion, rot, scourge, smutch, sore, ulcer
Main Entry: contagion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: infection
Synonyms: bane, contamination, corruption, illness, miasma, pestilence, plague, poison, pollution, taint, transmission, venom, virus
Main Entry: curse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hateful, swearing remark
Synonyms: anathema, ban, bane, blaspheming, blasphemy, commination, cursing, cuss word, cussing, damning, denunciation, dirty name, dirty word, double whammy, execration, expletive, four-letter word, fulmination, imprecation, malediction, malison, naughty words, no-no, oath, objuration, obloquy, obscenity, profanation, profanity, sacrilege, swear word, swearing, vilification, whammy
Antonyms: compliment, praise
Main Entry: curse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misfortune wished upon someone
Synonyms: affliction, bane, burden, calamity, cancer, cross, disaster, evil, evil eye, hydra, jinx, ordeal, pestilence, plague, scourge, torment, tribulation, trouble, vexation, voodoo
Main Entry: damage
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: injury, loss
Synonyms: accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane, blemish, blow, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, cave-in, contamination, corruption, debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, deterioration, detriment, devastation, disservice, disturbance, evil, hardship, harm, hurt, illness, impairment, infliction, knockout, marring, mischief, mishap, mutilation, outrage, pollution, ravage, reverse, ruin, ruining, spoilage, stroke, suffering, waste, wound, wreckage, wrecking, wrong
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement, profit
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