| 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: | fall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | descent; lowering |
Synonyms: |
abatement, belly flop, cut, decline, declivity, decrease, diminution, dip, dive, downgrade, downward slope, drop, dwindling, ebb, falling off, header, incline, lapse, lessening, nose dive, plummet, plunge, pratfall, recession, reduction, slant, slip, slope, slump, spill, tumble |
Antonyms: |
ascent, climb, rise, scaling |
| Main Entry: | flounder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | struggle; be in the dark |
Synonyms: |
blunder, bobble, cast about, come apart at the seams, drop the ball, fall down, flop, flummox, foul up, fumble, go at backwards, go to pieces, grope, labor, lurch, make a mess of, miss one's cue, muddle, plunge, pratfall, screw up, slip up, snafu, strive, stub one's toe, stumble, thrash, toil, toss, travail, trip up, tumble, wallow, work at |
Antonyms: |
do well, succeed |
| Main Entry: | nosedive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fall |
Synonyms: |
abatement, belly flop, cut*, decline, declivity, decrease, descent, diminution, dip, dive, downgrade, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, downward slope, drop*, drop-off, dwindling, ebb, falling off, header, incline, lapse, lessening, nose dive, plummet, plunge, pratfall, recession, reduction, skid, slant*, slide, slip*, slope, slump, spill, tumble |