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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perversion; deterioration of morality |
| Synonyms: | corruption, debasement, decay, declension, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, degradation, devolution, dissipation, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, evil, excess, fall, gluttony, incontinence, intemperance, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, licentiousness, regression, sensuality, sybaritism |
| Antonyms: | humility, morality |
| Main Entry: | degeneracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decay, deterioration |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, debasement, declination, decline, decrease, depravation, devolution, downfall, downgrade |
| Antonyms: | development, improvement |
| Main Entry: | delegation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assignment of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | appointment, apportioning, authorization, charge, commissioning, committal, consigning, consignment, conveyance, conveying, deputation, deputization, deputizing, devolution, entrustment, giving over, installation, investiture, mandate, nomination, ordination, reference, referring, relegation, sending away, submittal, submitting, transferal, transference, transferring, trust |
| Notes: | a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group |
| Antonyms: | keeping |
| Main Entry: | downfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgrace, ruin |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, bane, breakdown, cloudburst, collapse, comedown, comeuppance, debacle, decadence, declension, degeneracy, degeneration, deluge, descent, destruction, deterioration, devolution, discomfiture, down, drop, failure, fall, flood, on the rocks, overthrow, rack and ruin, road to ruin, ruination, storm, the skids, undoing |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, ascent, rise, success |
| 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: | recidivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lapse |
| Synonyms: | backslide, backsliding, decadence, declension, decline, degeneration, descent, deterioration, devolution, drop*, fall, recession, recidivism, regression, relapse, retrogradation, retrogression |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recidivism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lapse |
| Synonyms: | backslide, backsliding, decadence, declension, decline, degeneration, descent, deterioration, devolution, drop*, fall, recession, recidivation, regression, relapse, retrogradation, retrogression |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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