Disservice

Definition: Disservice

Disservice

Noun

1. An act intended to help that turns out badly; "he did them a disservice".

Date "disservice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Disservice \Dis*serv"ice\, noun. [Prefix dis- service: compare to the French expression desservice.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Disservice

Synonyms: ill service (n), ill turn (n). (additional references)

Antonym: service (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Evil	Outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice, spoliation; grievance, crying evil.
Inutility	Noun: inutility; uselessness; Adjective: inefficacy, futility; ineptitude, inaptitude; unsubservience; inadequacy; (insufficiency); inefficiency.; (incompetence); unskillfulness; disservice; unfruitfulness;(unproductiveness).; labor in vain, labor lost, labor of Sisyphus; lost trouble, lost labor; work of Penelope; sleeveless errand, wild goose chase, mere farce.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Disservice

English words defined with "disservice": Diskindness, Disserviceable. (references)

Etymologies containing "disservice": Diskindness. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I could lie to you, but I would do you a disservice, because it's-it's just bad. (Get Over It; writing credit: R. Lee Fleming Jr.)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Disservice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.52% of the time. "Disservice" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.52%	64	42,009
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	4.48%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	67	N/A

Expressions using "disservice": be of disservice to ♦ do a disservice ♦ do smb. a disservice. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "disservice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dëmtim (damnification, defacement, defect, deterioration, detriment, disadvantage, failure, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, lesion, Mar, wound), keqtrajtim (ill use, ill-treatment, indignity, maltreatment, mistreatment, persecution, punishment). (various references)

Arabic		‏قدم خدمة شيئة, ‏خدمة سيئة. (various references)

Bulgarian		вреда (damage, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, ill, injury, mischief, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe, shock), лоша услуга. (various references)

Czech		poškození (corruption, damage, harm, lesion). (various references)

Farsi		زیان (Damage, Detriment, Disadvantage, Drawback, Evil, Harm, Hurt, Ill, Loss, Scathe, Washout), صدمه (Concussion, Harm, Hurt, Indemnity, Injury, Maim, Scathe, Shock), ازار (Annoyance, Hindrance, Hurt, Nuisance, Torment, Trade, Train, Trouble), بدی (Evil, Vice), بدخدمتی . (various references)

French		ne pas rendre un service, mauvais service. (various references)

German		Meinungsverschiedenheit (difference of opinion, disagreement, dissension). (various references)

Greek		κακή υπηρεσία, ζημιά (damage, decrement, detriment, harm, hurt, injury, loss, mischief, prejudice, tort). (various references)

Hebrew		שרות �"וב. (various references)

Hungarian		rossz szolgálat, kár (damage, detriment, disadvantage, expense, harm, ill, impairment, injury, loss, mischief, mischievousness, nuisance, pity, toll, tort). (various references)

Indonesian		perbuatan merugikan. (various references)

Italian		disservizio (inefficiency), danno (damage, detriment, evil, harm, hurt, ill, injury, loss, mischief, ravage, scathe, they give), cattivo servizio. (various references)

Manx		uail (fine, injury, penalty, privation, ruination). (various references)

Pig Latin		isserviceday

Portuguese		desserviço, prejudicar (bane, crack, damage, damnify, encroachment, harm, hinder, hurt, impair, inhibit, injured, jeopardize, jeopardy, pocket knife, prejudice, prevent, queer, scathe, spoil, upset). (various references)

Romanian		deserviciu, daunã (damage, ill, injury). (various references)

Russian		ущерб (damage, detriment, disadvantage, harm, injury, prejudice, scathe), плохая услуга (ill office, ill turn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rđava usluga. (various references)

Spanish		deservicio. (various references)

Swedish		otjänst, björntjänst. (various references)

Turkish		zarar (average, bad, cost, damage, detriment, disadvantage, encroachment, evil, forfeit, harm, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, maleficence, mischief, prejudice, ravage, sacrifice, scathe, wreckage), kötülük (badness, blackness, darkness, devilry, enormity, evil, harm, iniquity, malfeasance, malice, malignity, misdeed, misdoing, perversity, spitefulness, vice, viciousness, villainy, wickedness), incitici davranış (stinger). (various references)

Ukrainian		шкода (breakage, damage, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, ill, injury, loss, mischief, noxiousness, scathe). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự l� m hại (injury), sự chơi xỏ, sự chơi khăm (mystification, shenanigan), sự báo hại. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "disservice": disserviceable, disservices. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Disservice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Citiservice, diservice. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "disservice" (pronounced di'sser"vus or di'ser"vus)
5	-s er" v u s	service.
4	-er" v u s	nervous.
3	-v u s	canvas, canvass, crevice, grievous, mischievous, novice, pelvis.
5	-s er" v u s	service.
4	-er" v u s	nervous.
3	-v u s	canvas, canvass, crevice, grievous, mischievous, novice, pelvis.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-r-s-s-v"
	-2 letters: decisive, derisive, descries, devisers, dieresis, disserve, dissever, scrieved, scrieves, serviced, services.
	-3 letters: cerises, decries, deicers, derives, desires, devices, deviser, devises, diverse, resides, revised, revises, screeds, scrieve, scrived, scrives, service, veridic.
	-4 letters: ceders, cerise, cervid, cessed, ciders, civies, creeds, crises, crisis, deicer, deices, derive, desire, device, devise, dicers, dicier, dieses, diesis, divers, drives, ecesis.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-r-s-s-v"
	+1 letter: discoveries, disservices.
	+3 letters: rediscoveries.
	+4 letters: discursiveness, disserviceable, diverticuloses, overclassified, prediscoveries.
	+5 letters: descriptiveness, destructivities.
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