BUMMERS Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

bummers 1 of 2

noun (1)

plural of bummer

as in downs

something (as a situation or event) that is depressing boy, breaking your leg right before vacation is a bummer

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as in disappointments

something that disappoints the cancellation of the holiday office party was a total bummer

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as in disasters

something that has failed that new start-up company proved to be a real bummer

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bummers

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noun (2)

plural of bummer

as in beggars

a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living a lifelong bummer, he never knew the satisfaction of having to work for a living

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Noun

That was one of my biggest takeaways — and bummers — from my conversation with Chris Barker, an epidemiology professor at UC Davis who has studied mosquitoes for almost 30 years, including at his lab. — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026 By San Diego standards, this saga stands as one of the weirder bummers involving a professional sports team and one of its stars. — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026 Short riding range and frequent, lengthy charging stops have been big bummers for electric motorcycles. — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2026

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Noun

With Indiana in Ohio State territory, Hoosiers quarterback Josh Hoover was crushed from behind by Ohio State defender Jaylen McClain on fourth-and-4, resulting in a sack and a turnover on downs.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Simmons was affected by the pass rush as the Tigers failed to convert third downs, going 6-for-17 on the key down; Ole Miss went 9-for-14.

— PJ Green October 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of downs

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Its chief instructor, Wang Kuanghan, has said plans are underway to open five more centers in China within three years, expanding the simulations to other disasters, including fires and earthquakes.

— Lauryn Higgins, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
The administration initially talked about abolishing the agency, arguing that states and communities could deal with disasters on their own.

— Dana R. Fisher, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of disasters

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Caldecott Tunnel was first opened in 1937 with two bores containing two lanes each going opposite directions.

— Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
Some resorts in the Mamanuca Islands are set to lose entire wings to the sea in the coming years, and drinking water in villages is already being infiltrated by salt from seawater seeping into ground bores.

— MIchelle Duff, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026

Definition of bores

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The question confronting Israel and its international partners is not simply whether money should flow into Gaza, but also who controls it—and whether the next arrangement will avoid the failures of the last.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
The author argued that the unrest reflected deeper failures by France’s political establishment.

— Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of failures

Noun

From feeding hobos on the back porch in the night in the Great Depression to marching against wars for oil in the Eighties and Nineties.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
The former, in which Burnett and Hamilton did a song-and-dance routine as Dust Bowl-era hobos, marked the first of several times that the two performed together.

— Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025

Definition of hoboes

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The protagonist becomes a wise-guy version of Benjamin’s Angel of History, watching calamities accumulate before his eyes.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026

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