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| Main Entry: | fallen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgraced, ruined |
| Synonyms: | decayed, immoral, loose, ruinous, shaken, shamed, sinful, collapsed, dishonored, unchaste |
| Antonyms: | honorable, honored, lauded |
| Main Entry: | fallen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dead |
| Synonyms: | casualty, lost, slain, killed, perished, slaughtered |
| Main Entry: | fall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend; become lower |
| Synonyms: | abate, backslide, buckle, cascade, collapse, crash, decline, decrease, depreciate, diminish, dip, dive, drag, droop, dwindle, ease, ebb, flag, flop, go down, gravitate, keel over, land, lapse, lessen, pitch, plummet, plunge, recede, regress, relapse, settle, sink, slip, slope, slump, spin, stumble, subside, topple, totter, trail, trip, tumble, wane, be precipitated, break down, cave in, drop down, fold up, hit the dirt, nose-dive, take a header, tip over |
| Antonyms: | ascend, climb, rise, scale, go up |
| Main Entry: | fall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be overthrown by an enemy; surrender |
| Synonyms: | back down, bend, capitulate, die, drop, give in, go down, go under, obey, perish, resign, slump, submit, succumb, yield, be casualty, be destroyed, be killed, be lost, be taken, defer to, eat dirt, fall to pieces, give up, give way, lie down, pass into enemy hands |
| Antonyms: | advance, attain, overcome, overthrow, reach, win |
| Main Entry: | fall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen |
| Synonyms: | arrive, become, befall, chance, come about, occur, come to pass, take place |
| Main Entry: | degenerate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, deteriorated |
| Synonyms: | base, debased, debauched, decadent, decayed, degraded, depraved, dissolute, effete, failing, fallen, immoral, infamous, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, retrograde, rotten, sinking, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, wicked, worsen, degenerated, demeaned, flatitious, overripe, retrogressive, vitiated |
| Notes: | to degenerate means 'to decline in value, move lower on a scale' but to deteriorate means 'to worsen, to become lowered, or be reduced in value'; degenerate pertains more to character and virtue while deteriorate is more about loss of strength or vitality |
| Antonyms: | moral, upright, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | extinct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dead, obsolete |
| Synonyms: | archaic, asleep, bygone, cold*, deceased, defunct, departed, done for*, ended, fallen, gone, inactive, late, lifeless, lost, out, outmoded, passé, superseded, unknown, vanished, void, abolished, dead and gone, disappeared, doused, exanimate, exterminated, extinguished, no longer known, passed on, snuffed out, terminated, vanquished |
| Antonyms: | alive, existing, extant, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | level, smooth |
| Synonyms: | deflated, depressed, empty, even, extended, fallen, flush, horizontal, low, pancake*, plane, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, supine, unbroken, collapsed, complanate, decumbent, laid low, oblate, outstretched, planar, planate, procumbent, punctured, splay, spread out, tabular |
| Antonyms: | broken, elevated, raised, rough, rounded, rugged, uneven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prostrate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tired, worn |
| Synonyms: | crippled, dejected, depressed, drained, drowned, exhausted, fallen, incapacitated, inconsolable, obedient, overcome, paralyzed, pooped*, spent*, submissive, subservient, worn out, disarmed, fagged, frazzled, immobilized, knocked over, tuckered, wearied |
| Antonyms: | hale, healthy, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | befall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen to; take place |
| Synonyms: | action, betide, break, chance, come down, come off, cook*, develop, ensue, fall, fall out, follow, go, go down, happen, jell*, materialize, occur, shake*, smoke*, transpire, bechance, come to pass, cook up a storm, cook with gas, gel, hap, supervene |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheapen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish worth |
| Synonyms: | abase, belittle, corrupt, damage, debase, decline, decry, degrade, demean, denigrate, depreciate, derogate, devalue, discredit, disparage, downgrade, drop, fall, lower, mar, minimize, reduce, ruin, spoil, undervalue, write off, beat down, lose value, mark down, render worthless |
| Antonyms: | appreciate, enhance, increase, raise, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | come |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen |
| Synonyms: | befall, betide, break, chance, develop, fall, occur, transpire, turn out, come to pass, hap, take place |
| Main Entry: | come down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | worsen |
| Synonyms: | decline, decrease, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, fail, fall, reduce, suffer, go downhill |
| Antonyms: | boost, improve |
| Main Entry: | contract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | catch disease |
| Synonyms: | acquire, afflict, be afflicted with, be ill with, become infected with, bring on, cause, come down with, decline, derange, develop, disorder, fall, fall victim to, get, go down with, incur, indispose, induce, obtain, sicken, sink, succumb to, take, take one's death, upset, weaken |
| Antonyms: | give |
| Main Entry: | crumple |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become wrinkled |
| Synonyms: | buckle, collapse, crease, crimp, crinkle, crush, fall, fold, go to pieces, pucker, rumple, screw, scrunch, shrivel, wad, wrinkle, break down, cave in, crimple, give way, rimple, ruck |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lessen, become less |
| Synonyms: | abate, backslide, cheapen, decay, decrease, degenerate, depreciate, deteriorate, diminish, disintegrate, droop, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fail, fall, fall off, flag, languish, lapse, lower, pine, recede, relapse, retrograde, return, revert, rot, sag, settle, shrink, sink, slide, subside, wane, weaken, worsen, disimprove, go downhill, go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, lose value |
| Antonyms: | improve, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend |
| Synonyms: | dip, droop, drop, fall, go down, lower, sag, set, settle, sink, slant, slope |
| Antonyms: | ascend, rise, go up |
| Main Entry: | depreciate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | devalue, lose value |
| Synonyms: | abate, cheapen, decay, decrease, decry, deflate, depress, deteriorate, diminish, downgrade, drop, dwindle, erode, fall, lessen, lower, reduce, soften, underrate, undervalue, worsen, write off, devalorize, mark down, write down |
| Antonyms: | increase, overrate, raise, rate, gain value |
| Main Entry: | descend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move down, lower a |
| Synonyms: | cascade, cataract, coast, collapse, crash, crouch, decline, dip, disembark, dismount, dive, dribble*, drop, fall, get down, get off, go down, gravitate, ground, incline, light, penetrate, pitch, plummet, plunge, set, settle, sink, slant, slide, slip, slope, slump, stoop, stumble, submerge, subside, swoop, toboggan, topple, trickle, trip, tumble, weep, cave in*, deplane, detrain, fall prostrate, lose balance, plop, prolapse, slough off |
| Antonyms: | ascend, increase, rise, go up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | die |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wither, dwindle |
| Synonyms: | abate, crumble, decay, decline, degenerate, deteriorate, diminish, disappear, droop, ebb, end, expire, fade, fail, fall, halt, lapse, let up, moderate, molder, pass, peter out*, rankle, recede, retrograde, rot, run down, run out, sink, slacken, stop, subside, vanish, wane, weaken, wilt, bate, break down, dilapidate, ease off, fade away, fade out, fizzle out, go bad, go downhill, lose power, melt away, run low, wear away |
| Antonyms: | develop, flourish, grow, improve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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