- Advantages and disadvantages
- Upsides and downsides
- Merits and demerits
- Positives and negatives
- For and against
- Benefits and drawbacks
- Strengths and weaknesses
- Assets and liabilities
- Good and bad points
- Pluses and minuses
- Boons and banes
- Pros and minuses
- Gain and loss
- Profit and disadvantage
- Advantages and shortcomings
- Perks and pitfalls
- Advancements and setbacks
- Bonuses and penalties
- Favors and harms
- Assets and drawbacks
- Virtues and vices
- Gains and detriments
- Pros and cons
- Ups and downs
- Bright side and dark side
- High points and low points
- Successes and failures
- Hits and misses
- Achievements and faults
- Triumphs and blunders
- Pros and obstacles
- Gains and losses
- Prizes and penalties
- Benefits and deficits
- Rewards and repercussions
- Bonuses and detriments
- Pluses and negatives
- Virtues and deficits
- Features and bugs
- Profit and loss
- Advantages and drawbacks
- Forte and flaws
- Advantages and pitfalls
- Plus points and minus points
- Peaks and valleys
- Ups and undersides
- Promotions and demotions
- Fortunes and misfortunes
- Assets and debits
- Positives and drawbacks
- Helpers and hinderances
- Highs and lows
- Pros and deterrents
- Aid and obstacles
- Assets and complications
- Good points and bad points
- Boons and curses
- Advantages and deprivations
- Benefits and complications
- Gains and impediments
- Pros and liabilities
- Advantages and deficits
- Helpers and setbacks
- Blessings and curses
- Pros and hurdles
- Rewards and drawbacks
- Advantages and encumbrances
- Bonuses and complications
- Benefits and hurdles
- Favorable and unfavorable aspects
- Positive and negative attributes
- Advantages and hindrances
- Profits and hindrances
- Gains and restrictions
- Good and unfavorable points
- Assets and obstacles
- Wins and losses
- Benefits and constraints
- Perks and hindrances
- Positive and negative sides
- Pros and restrictions
- Rewards and constraints
- Pluses and hurdles
- Positives and deficits
- Positives and complications
- Gains and constraints
- Helpers and complications
- Benefits and obstructions
- Advantages and restrictions
- Positives and hindrances
- Pros and impediments
- Rewards and obstructions
- Bonuses and constraints
- Advantages and obstructions
- Positives and obstructions
- Pros and obstructions
- Advantages and complications
- Gains and obstructions
- Rewards and complications
- Assets and restrictions
Here are 100 phrases that, while not being direct synonyms of “pros and cons”, convey similar ideas or consider aspects of evaluation:
- Give and take
- Cost-benefit analysis
- The good with the bad
- Weighing the odds
- Evaluating the alternatives
- Pros outweigh the cons
- Positives outweigh the negatives
- Weighing the possibilities
- Risk-reward balance
- Assessing the options
- Cost-effectiveness evaluation
- Looking at both sides of the coin
- Trade-offs
- Swings and roundabouts (British English)
- Balancing act
- Double-edged sword
- Comparing apples to apples
- The yin and the yang
- Pros versus cons
- Delicate balance
- Two sides of the same coin
- Mixed bag
- Balancing the scales
- Stacking up the good and the bad
- Balancing the equation
- Calculated risk
- The better of two evils
- Cost of doing business
- Weighing up the situation
- Judging the merits
- A mixed blessing
- Balancing positives and negatives
- The lesser of two evils
- Risk versus reward
- The bitter with the sweet
- The long and the short of it
- The flip side of the coin
- Comparing pros to cons
- Good outweighs the bad
- The light and the dark of it
- Positive versus negative aspects
- Evaluating the implications
- Pulls and pressures
- Hits and misses
- Benefits versus drawbacks
- Pitting pros against cons
- Give and take situation
- The nuts and bolts of it
- The ups outweigh the downs
- Taking the rough with the smooth
- Putting it into perspective
- Considering all factors
- Balancing the good and the bad
- Sizing up the situation
- Weighing the options
- The sweet and the sour of it
- The twists and turns
- Tipping the scales
- Evaluating benefits to drawbacks
- The highs and the lows
- Weighing the advantages
- The wins and the losses
- The ins and outs
- Analyzing the repercussions
- The whole picture
- Understanding the implications
- Balancing the books
- Assessing the impact
- The silver lining and the cloud
- The sun and the shadow of it
- Putting pros on the scales
- Stacking up pros against cons
- The ebbs and flows
- Throwing pros into the mix
- Pondering the possibilities
- Grasping the full picture
- The reality check
- The true cost of things
- Reviewing the situation
- The benefits and the sacrifices
- Tallying the benefits
- Mapping the consequences
- The ups outweigh the downs
- The joy and the pain of it
- Seeing the big picture
- The likelihood of success
- The bigger picture
- Balancing the pros and cons
- The reality of the situation
- Calculating the probabilities
- The true nature of things
- The gains and the pains
- The odds of success
- Counting the cost
- The brighter and darker sides
- Weighing the pros against the cons
- The blessings and curses
- Playing the odds
- Counting the benefits
- Considering the consequences