Usually means: Disadvantages or negative aspects.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. cons: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cons, cons, cons: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cons, cons: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Cons, cons: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cons: Vocabulary.com
  6. Con's, Cons, con's, cons: Wordnik
  7. cons: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CONs, cons: Wiktionary
  9. cons: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Cons: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. CONS, cons: Dictionary.com
  12. cons: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. CONS, Cons (disambiguation), Cons: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cons: Rhymezone
  15. Cons, cons: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cons: Legal dictionary

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. CONS, cons: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. cons: Netlingo
  3. CONS: CCI Computer
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  6. CONS: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CONS: UK Medical Acronyms
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. cons: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CONS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. cons: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cons: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cons, the cons: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cons)

▸ noun:  (programming) A data structure in Lisp that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.
▸ verb:  (programming) To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.

Similar:
learn, convict, mulct, memorize, inmate, defraud, con game, confidence game, swindle, flimflam, more...

Opposite:
pros

Types:
pickpocketing, scams, theft, robbery, embezzlement, extortion, more...

Phrases:
mod cons, cons cell, pros and cons, tail recursion modulo cons, ex cons, more...

Adjectives:
other, secret, many, older, neo, mod, little, fewer, final, short, total

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Similar:
learn, convict, mulct, memorize, inmate, defraud, con game, confidence game, swindle, flimflam, more...

Opposite:
pros

Types:
pickpocketing, scams, theft, robbery, embezzlement, extortion, more...

Phrases:
mod cons, cons cell, pros and cons, tail recursion modulo cons, ex cons, All Mod Cons, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, self cons, time cons, it has its pros and cons, one who cons, pros than cons, more...

Adjectives:
other, secret, many, older, neo, mod, little, fewer, final, short, total

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark red,     olive,     brown, more...



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