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| Main Entry: | lapse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become void; fall back into previous pattern |
| Synonyms: | backslide, cease, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, die, elapse, end, expire, go by, pass, recede, relapse, retrograde, return, revert, run out, slide, slip, subside, terminate, weaken, apostatize, become obsolete, recidivate |
| Antonyms: | continue, go on, restart |
| Main Entry: | lapse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake |
| Synonyms: | blunder, breach, bungle, crime, error, failing, failure, fault, flub, foible, frailty, goof, indiscretion, miscue, negligence, offense, omission, oversight, sin, slip, transgression, trespass, trip*, vice, violation, gaff, goof-up, screw-up, slip-up |
| Antonyms: | achievement, perfection, success |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, decline, descent, deterioration, drop, fall, recession, relapse, retrogression, declension, degeneration, devolution, regression, retrogradation |
| Antonyms: | progress |
| 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: | deviate, fall from grace, lapse, relapse, revert, sin, slip, apostatize, leave the straight and narrow |
| Main Entry: | blooper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blunder |
| Synonyms: | boner*, bungle, error, faux pas, fluff*, gaffe, impropriety, lapse, mistake, slip, solecism, trip*, boo-boo, indecorum |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blunder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake |
| Synonyms: | blooper*, boner*, bungle, error, fault, faux pas, flub*, fluff*, gaffe, goof*, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, lapse, muff*, oversight, slip, solecism, trip*, boo-boo, dumb move, dumb thing to do, flub-up, howler, slip-up |
| Antonyms: | accuracy, correction, fix, restitution |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clear up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become improved |
| Synonyms: | blow over, brighten, improve, lapse, lift, pick up, become fair, become sunny, die away, die down, run its course |
| Antonyms: | worsen |
| Main Entry: | course |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | length of action |
| Synonyms: | duration, lapse, passage, passing, progress, sweep, term, time, elapsing |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lessening |
| Synonyms: | abatement, comedown, decay, decrepitude, degeneracy, descent, deterioration, diminution, dissolution, dive, downfall, downgrade, downturn, drop, ebb, failing, failure, fall, flop, lapse, recession, relapse, senility, slump, wane, waning, backsliding, cropper, degeneration, devolution, dwindling, ebbing, enfeeblement, falling off, on the skids, pratfall, skids, 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: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | downward change in value, position |
| Synonyms: | declivity, decrease, depression, descent, dip, downturn, drop, hill, incline, lapse, loss, lowering, pitch, sag, slide, slip, slope, slump, downslide, downswing, downtrend, drop-off, fall-off |
| Antonyms: | ascent, increase, rise |
| 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: | default |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure; want |
| Synonyms: | absence, blemish, blunder, dearth, defect, deficiency, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, error, fault, imperfection, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, miss, neglect, nonpayment, offense, omission, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing, overlooking |
| Antonyms: | advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success |
| Main Entry: | defect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break from belief, faith |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abscond, back out, break faith*, depart, desert, forsake, go, go over, lapse, leave, pull out, quit, rat*, rebel, reject, renege, renounce, revolt, run out, schism, sell out*, spurn, tergiversate, turn, walk out on, withdraw, apostatize, change sides, fall away from, go back on, go over the fence, take a walk, tergiverse, turn coat |
| Antonyms: | come in, join |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | degenerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decay, deteriorate |
| Synonyms: | backslide, corrode, corrupt, decline, decrease, deprave, descend, disintegrate, fall off, go to pieces*, lapse, lessen, regress, retrogress, return, revert, rot, sink, slip, vitiate, worsen, come apart at seams, die on vine, disimprove, go downhill, go to the dogs |
| Antonyms: | develop, improve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delinquency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconduct |
| Synonyms: | crime, default, dereliction, failure, fault, lapse, misbehavior, misdeed, misdemeanor, neglect, offense, oversight, weakness, wrongdoing, nonfeasance, nonobservance |
| Antonyms: | good behavior |
| Main Entry: | delusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconception, misbelief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, blunder, casuistry, chicanery, daydream, deception, deceptiveness, dream, eidolon, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment*, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, ignis fatuus, illusion, lapse, mirage, misapprehension, mistake, optical illusion, oversight, phantasm, phantom, pipe dream*, self-deception, shade, speciousness, spuriousness, trickery, trip, vision |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, fact, reality, surety, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration |
| Synonyms: | abasement, anticlimax, cadence, comedown, debasement, decadence, decline, degradation, discomfiture, down, downfall, lapse, pathos, slump, downcome |
| Antonyms: | improvement, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | deteriorate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decay, degenerate |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, alloy, break, corrode, corrupt, crumble, debase, debilitate, decline, decompose, degrade, deprave, depreciate, descend, disintegrate, ebb, fade, fail, fall apart, flag, go to pieces*, impair, injure, languish, lapse, lessen, lower, mar, pervert, regress, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sink, skid, slide, spoil, undermine, vitiate, weaken, worsen, be worse for wear, become worse, disimprove, go downhill, go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, lose it, lose quality, wear away |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, develop, improve, get better |
* = 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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