Bane and Joy

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Bane noun - A source of harm or misfortune.

Usage example: regarding the new laborsaving machinery as a bane, the 19th-century Luddites went about destroying it in protest

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Joy is an antonym for bane in topics: plague, cause of misery.

Nearby Words: banal, baneful

Joy noun - A feeling or state of well-being and contentment.

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Bane is an antonym for joy.

Nearby Words: joyful, joyous, joyless, joyfully, joyously

particular	particular bane	particular joy
dying	dying bane	dying joy
true	true bane	true joy
single	single bane	single joy
Other adjectives: real, absolute, personal, general, eternal, greatest, sudden.

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