| Main Entry: | lapse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake |
Synonyms: |
blunder, breach, bungle, crime, error, failing, failure, fault, flub, foible, frailty, gaff, goof, goof-up, indiscretion, miscue, negligence, offense, omission, oversight, screw-up, sin, slip, slip-up, transgression, trespass, trip*, vice, violation |
Antonyms: |
achievement, perfection, success |
| Main Entry: | lapse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break in action |
Synonyms: |
gap, intermission, interruption, interval, lacuna, lull, passage, pause |
Antonyms: |
continuity |
| Main Entry: | lapse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | backsliding |
Synonyms: |
decadence, declension, decline, degeneration, descent, deterioration, devolution, drop, fall, recession, regression, relapse, retrogradation, retrogression |
Antonyms: |
progress |
| Main Entry: | lapse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become void; fall back into previous pattern |
Synonyms: |
apostatize, backslide, become obsolete, cease, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, die, elapse, end, expire, go by, pass, recede, recidivate, relapse, retrograde, return, revert, run out, slide, slip, subside, terminate, weaken |
Antonyms: |
continue, go on, restart |
| Main Entry: | aberration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | different from that expected |
Synonyms: |
departure, deviation, difference, distortion, divergence, diversion, irregularity, lapse, straying, wandering |
Antonyms: |
conformity, sameness |
| Main Entry: | backslide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go astray |
Synonyms: |
apostatize, deviate, fall from grace, lapse, leave the straight and narrow, relapse, revert, sin, slip |
| Main Entry: | blooper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blunder |
Synonyms: |
boner, boo-boo, bungle, error, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, impropriety, indecorum, lapse, mistake, slip, solecism, trip* |
| Main Entry: | blunder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake |
Synonyms: |
blooper, boner, boo-boo, bungle, dumb move, dumb thing to do, error, fault, faux pas, flub, flub-up, fluff, gaffe, goof, howler, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, lapse, muff, oversight, slip, slip-up, solecism, trip* |
Antonyms: |
accuracy, correction, fix, restitution |
| Main Entry: | clear up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become improved |
Synonyms: |
become fair, become sunny, blow over, brighten, die away, die down, improve, lapse, lift, pick up, run its course |
Antonyms: |
worsen |
| Main Entry: | course |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | length of action |
Synonyms: |
duration, elapsing, lapse, passage, passing, progress, sweep, term, time |