disservice

1. 1.

   an act intended to help that turns out badly

   “he did them a disservice”

   Synonymsill serviceill turn

   Antonymsservice

   Broaderinjury

Other forms of disservice

plural

disservices·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disservice

What does disservice mean?

disservice means "an act intended to help that turns out badly".

How many syllables are in disservice?

disservice has 3 syllables: dis-ser-vice. The stress falls on "ser". In IPA it is /dɪˈsɝvəs/.

What is another word for disservice?

Close synonyms include ill service, ill turn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of disservice?

The recorded antonyms are service.

Is disservice a common word?

disservice is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disservice?

1 word rhymes with disservice. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.