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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration |
| Synonyms: | decadence, decadency, decay, decaying, declination, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, worsening |
| Notes: | in the jargon of grammar, the forms of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives can be arrayed in declensions or inflections; the forms of verbs are said to be arrayed in conjugations |
| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moving down; lowering |
| Synonyms: | cave-in, coast, coming down, crash, declension, declination, decline, declivity, dip, downgrade, droop, drop, drop-off, fall, falling, grade, gradient, header, hill, inclination, incline, landslide, plummeting, plunge, plunging, precipitation, prolapse, sag, settlement, sinkage, sinking, slant, slide, slip, slope, swoop, tailspin, topple, tumble |
| Antonyms: | ascension, ascent, elevation, increase, rise, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | deterioration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decay, degeneration |
| Synonyms: | abasement, adulteration, atrophy, corrosion, crumbling, debasement, decadence, decaying, declension, declination, decline, decomposition, degradation, degringolade, depreciation, descent, devaluation, dilapidation, disintegration, dislocation, disrepair, downfall, downgrade, downturn, drop, fall, lapse, lessening, perversion, retrogression, rotting, ruin, slump, spoiling, vitiation, worsening |
| Antonyms: | betterment, building, construction, development, improvement |
| 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: | refusal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | denial of responsibility; unwillingness |
| Synonyms: | abnegation, ban, choice, cold shoulder, declension, declination, defiance, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, disclaimer, discountenancing, disfavor, dissent, enjoinment, exclusion, forbidding, interdiction, knockback, negation, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, option, pass*, prohibition, proscription, rebuff, refutation, regrets, rejection, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation, repulse, repulsion, reversal, thumbs down, turndown, veto, withholding, writ |
| Antonyms: | approval, grant, offer, ok, sanction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | waning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decreasing |
| Synonyms: | abatement, declension, declination, decrescence, diminution, flagging, recession |
| Antonyms: | waxing |
| Main Entry: | declination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration |
| Synonyms: | decadence, decadency, decay, decaying, declension, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, worsening |
| Main Entry: | degeneration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration |
| Synonyms: | decadence, decadency, decay, decaying, declension, declination, decline, degeneracy, worsening |
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