Synonyms for deadweight
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for deadweight Other synonyms for the word deadweight
- accountability
- affliction
- albatross
- anxiety
- ball and chain
- bar sinister
- black eye
- blame
- blot
- blur
- bother
- brand
- calling
- care
- charge
- clog
- commitment
- committal
- concern
- cross
- culpability
- cumber
- cumbrance
- custody
- daily grind
- deadweight
- demand
- difficulty
- drag
- drain
- duty
- employment
- encumbrance
- enterprise
- errand
- excess baggage
- fault
- fun and games
- gig
- grievance
- grind
- grindstone
- guilt
- hardship
- headache
- Herculean task
- hindrance
- imposition
- incubus
- labor
- liability
- load
- long row to hoe
- mental weight
- millstone
- misfortune
- mishap
- mission
- must
- nuisance
- obligation
- obstruction
- occupation
- odium
- office
- onus
- oppression
- ought
- pain
- pressure
- province
- punishment
- right
- safekeeping
- slur
- sorrow
- spot
- stain
- stigma
- stint
- strain
- stress
- tax
- thorn in one's side
- toil
- trial
- trouble
- trust
- undertaking
- vocation
- ward
- weary load
- weight
- work
- worry
Définition of deadweight
Origin :- 1650s, "weight of an inert body," from dead (adj.) + weight (n.).
- As in load : noun burden, pressure
- As in millstone : noun burden
- As in onus : noun burden
- As in task : noun job or chore, often assigned
- As in tax : noun burden
- As in weight : noun burden
- As in burden : noun mental weight; stress
- As in charge : noun burden
- Yet the power (so defined as horse-power) required to raise a deadweight of 20 lbs.
- Extract from : « Unexplored Spain » by Abel Chapman
- Blindly, I felt for the buttons on my dress, and buttoning I sank back in sleep again—the deadweight sleep of utter exhaustion.
- Extract from : « Hungry Hearts » by Anzia Yezierska
- It was the sudden release of both the keel and deadweight of the projectile that had caused R19 to shoot up to the surface.
- Extract from : « A Sub and a Submarine » by Percy F. Westerman
- The remainder were freighters, averaging about 5,000 deadweight tons each.
- Extract from : « Area Handbook for Romania » by Eugene K. Keefe, Donald W. Bernier, Lyle E. Brenneman, William Giloane, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
Antonyms for deadweight
- advantage
- aid
- assistance
- benefit
- blank
- blessing
- calmness
- contentment
- disregard
- distrust
- ease
- encouragement
- entertainment
- exculpation
- exoneration
- freedom
- freeing
- fun
- good health
- happiness
- health
- help
- hobby
- idleness
- inactivity
- irresponsibility
- pastime
- peace
- pleasure
- praise
- promotion
- relief
- retreat
- solution
- tranquility
- triviality
- unemployment
- unimportance
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