CASUALTY Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

casualty

noun

ˈka-zhəl-tē

Definition of casualty

as in victim

a person or thing harmed, lost, or destroyed the real casualties in the war against drugs are millions of innocent children

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as in accident

a chance and usually sudden event bringing loss or injury casualties at sea that sometimes resulted in great losses of men or even of entire ships

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as in luck

archaic the uncertain course of events believes finding one's true love is too important a matter to be left to mere casualty

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Recent Examples of casualty Participants followed detailed scripts to create a scenario as close to a real mass-casualty event as possible. — Jessica Riley, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026 Cynical viewers used to large ensemble stories where bad things happen at scale may start trying to figure out who of this lot will die by the end, although the casualties among characters with speaking parts are surprisingly few. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026 Attention is often the first casualty of careless communication. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026 Only good fortune and the actions of others spared the potential for casualties. — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for casualty

Recent Examples of Synonyms for casualty

Noun

The studies with these conclusions have not held up over time and may be victims of publication bias.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 22 Sep. 2026
Ventura was not truly a victim and deserved to face consequences alongside Combs.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of victim

Noun

The decision not to show Meadows’ death follows a public plea from his mother, Angela Meadows, who asked Discovery not to broadcast footage of her son’s fatal accident.

— Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026
Mushrooms is the latest Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission, named for the Australian philanthropist and businessman Neil Balnaves, who died in a boating accident near Tahiti in 2022, aged 77.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of accident

Noun

Many arrived before the doors were open and had already tried the phone with no luck, said Jared Nordlund, the state director for UnidosUS in Florida, an advocacy group that provides assistance to people trying to navigate state agencies.

— Sharmila Venkatasubban, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
The grand luck in Wednesday’s major money Florida Lottery draw games — Florida Lotto, Powerball, Fantasy 5 — went to someone who chose their numbers and, for the second day in a row, a free Quick Pick ticket holder.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of luck

Noun

The sport could no longer pretend that fatalities were random acts of God rather than the predictable output of a system not designed carefully enough.

— Jessica Vitiritti, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Phil DiMartino, a police spokesman, the crash is Kansas City’s 51st traffic fatality this year.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of fatality

Noun

Sympathetic realism is at its wisest when novelists give readers the chance Lee offered in her first book— to love and dislike characters simultaneously.

— Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
There is also a chance of restitution up to $5,000 and revocation of all hunting and fishing privileges nationwide.

— Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of chance

Noun

There’s a guy who wound up dying under mysterious circumstances that makes up part of him.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
When circumstances permit, a factual report, relevant identifying information, and any unanswered requests can be documented afterward.

— Matthew Kayser, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of circumstance

Noun

In the sweeping farmlands near the Central Coast, a seed supplier that cultivates peppers, vegetables and fruit was hit with more than two dozen pesticide safety violations, some of them serious offenses that caused health or environmental hazards.

— Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Chicago has an opportunity to set a nationwide example for protecting its workforce from a new generation of worksite hazards driven by rising temperatures.

— Maria Hadden, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026

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