| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, adjournment, attainment, bottom line, cease, cessation, close, closing, closure, completion, conclusion, consequence, consummation, culmination, curtain, denouement, desistance, desuetude, determination, discontinuance, end of the line, ending, execution, expiration, expiry, finale, finis, finish, fulfillment, issue, last word, omega, outcome, payoff, perfection, period, realization, resolution, result, retirement, sign-off, stop, stopping point, target, termination, upshot, wind-up, windup, wrap-up |
| Notes: | a terminus is simply the end or conclusion of something, but a terminal is a structure or installation erected at a terminus |
| Main Entry: | cataclysm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disaster |
| Synonyms: | calamity, cataract, catastrophe, collapse, convulsion, crunch, curtains, debacle, deluge, disturbance, double trouble, flood, flooding, holy mess, inundation, misadventure, ruin, torrent, tragedy, unholy mess, upheaval, waterloo, woe |
| Antonyms: | boon, good fortune, happiness, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | catastrophe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calamity; unhappy conclusion |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, alluvion, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains, debacle, denouement, desolation, devastation, disaster, emergency, end, failure, fatality, fiasco, finale, grief, hardship, havoc, ill, infliction, meltdown, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, the worst, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo, wreck |
| Antonyms: | benefit, blessing, favor, good fortune, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder |
| Main Entry: | completion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accomplishment, finishing |
| Synonyms: | achievement, attainment, close, conclusion, consummation, culmination, curtains, dispatch, end, expiration, finalization, finis, finish, fruition, fulfillment, hips, integration, perfection, realization, swan song, windup, wrap-up |
| Antonyms: | anticlimax, imperfection |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
| Main Entry: | decease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | buying the farm, curtains, defunction, demise, departure, dissolution, dying, grim reaper, passing, passing away, passing over, quietus, release, silence, sleep, taps, the end |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | demise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, usually death |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, collapse, curtains, decease, departure, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, expiration, extinction, failure, fall, final thrill, last out, last roundup, lights out, number's up, passing, quietus, ruin, silence, sleep, termination |
| Notes: | demise is the time when something ends or death; surmise is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete or little evidence |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | dissolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death; destruction |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, conclusion, curtains, decay, decease, decomposition, defunction, demise, disappearance, disbandment, discontinuation, dismissal, dispersal, end, ending, evaporation, extinction, finish, liquefaction, melting, overthrow, passing, quietus, release, resolution, ruin, silence, sleep, solution, suspension, termination |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencement, construction, start |
| Main Entry: | termination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end |
| Synonyms: | abortion, ballgame, cease, cessation, close, completion, conclusion, consequence, curtains, cut-off, desistance, discontinuation, effect, end of the line, ending, expiry, finale, finis, finish, issue, kiss-off, outcome, payoff, period, result, stop, terminus, windup, wrap-up |
| Antonyms: | beginning, initiation, opening, start |