| Main Entry: | comedown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | letdown, blow |
Synonyms: |
anticlimax, blow, collapse, comeuppance, crash, cropper, decline, defeat, deflation, demotion, descent, disappointment, discomfiture, dive, down, downfall, failure, fall, flop, humiliation, pratfall, reverse, ruin, setback, undoing, wreck |
Antonyms: |
ascent, boon, boost, fortune, promotion |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lessening |
Synonyms: |
abatement, backsliding, comedown, cropper, decay, decrepitude, degeneracy, degeneration, descent, deterioration, devolution, diminution, dissolution, dive, downfall, downgrade, downturn, drop, dwindling, ebb, ebbing, enfeeblement, failing, failure, fall, falling off, flop, lapse, on the skids, pratfall, recession, relapse, senility, skids, slump, wane, waning, weakening, worsening |
| Notes: | one declines (or accepts) something that is offered; one refuses (or agrees) to accept something offered |
Antonyms: |
betterment, improvement, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | farmer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who produces crops, raises animals |
Synonyms: |
agriculturalist, agriculturist, agronomist, breeder, clodhopper, cob, country person, cropper, cultivator, feeder, gardener, gleaner, grazer, grower, harvester, hired hand, homesteader, horticulturist, laborer, peasant, planter, plower, producer, rancher, reaper, sharecropper, sower, tender, tiller, villein |
| Main Entry: | peasant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farmer |
Synonyms: |
boor, bumpkin, countryman/woman, cropper, farmhand, hayseed, hick, hired hand, laborer, peon, planter, provincial, rube, rustic, serf, sharecropper, villein |
| Main Entry: | snag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complication in situation |
Synonyms: |
Catch-22, bar, barrier, blockade, brake, bug*, catch, clog, crimp, cropper, crunch, curb, difficulty, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, fix*, glitch, hamper, hitch, holdup, hole*, hurdle, impediment, inconvenience, knot, obstacle, obstruction, pickle, problem, puzzler, scrape, spot, stumbling block, the rub, tight spot |
Antonyms: |
advantage, convenience |