Synonyms for loss

noun

1. The act or fact of losing

   ruin, destruction, perdition, mishap, misfortune, forfeiture, giving up, bereavement, ill fortune, misadventure, ill luck, accident, calamity, trouble, disaster, death, sacrifice, catastrophe, cataclysm, trial, failure, misplacing, mislaying.

2. Damage suffered by loss, sense 1

   hurt, injury, wound; see damage 1, 2.

3. The result of unprofitable activity

   privation, want, bereavement, deprivation, need, destitution, being without, lack, waste, deterioration, impairment, degeneration, retrogression, retardation, decline, disadvantage, wreck, wreckage, extermination, eradication, extinction, undoing, dissolution, annihilation, extirpation, perdition, bane, end, undoing, disorganization, breaking up, immolation, suppression, relapse; see also bankruptcy.

   Antonyms advantage*, advancement, supply.

at a loss