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setback
| Main Entry: |
setback
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disappointment |
| Synonyms: | about-face, backset, bath, blow, bottom, check, comedown, defeat, delay, difficulty, drawing board, flip-flop, hindrance, hitch*, hold-up, impediment, misfortune, obstacle, rebuff, regress, regression, reversal, reversal of fortune, reverse, slowdown, stumbling block, trouble, upset, whole new ballgame |
| Antonyms: | achievement, advance, blessing, boon, boost, success |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bad luck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rotten break |
| Synonyms: | adversity, bad break, blow, devil's own luck, hard cheese, hard luck, hard time, hardship, ill luck, mischance, misfortune, raw deal, reverse, rotten luck, setback, tough break, tough luck, tragedy |
| Main Entry: | blow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catastrophe |
| Synonyms: | affliction, balk, bolt from the blue, bombshell, calamity, casualty, chagrin, comedown, debacle, disappointment, disaster, disgruntlement, frustration, jolt, letdown, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, reverse, setback, shock, tragedy, upset |
| Antonyms: | good fortune, luck |
| Main Entry: | check |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restraint, hindrance |
| Synonyms: | blow, constraint, control, curb, damper, disappointment, frustration, grunt, harness, holdup, impediment, inhibition, limitation, obstruction, rebuff, rejection, restrainer, reversal, reverse, setback, stoppage, trouble |
| Antonyms: | aid, allowance, assistance, help, indulgence, liberation, permission |
| 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: | cost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expense; price paid |
| Synonyms: | amount, arm and a leg, bad news, bite*, bottom dollar, bottom line, charge, damage*, disbursement, dues, expenditure, figure, line, nick, nut*, outlay, payment, price, price tag, rate, score*, setback*, squeeze*, tab, tariff, ticket, toll, top dollar, value, worth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overthrow, beating |
| Synonyms: | KO, ambush, annihilation, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess, killing*, lacing, licking, loss, massacre, mastery, nonsuccess, paddling, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, scalping, setback, shellacking, slaughter, subjugation, thrashing, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whipping, whitewashing |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
| Antonyms: | conquest, success, triumph, victory, win |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frustration |
| Synonyms: | disappointment, discomfiture, downfall, failure, foil, loss, rebuff, repulse, reversal, reverse, setback, thwarting |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
| Antonyms: | attainment, mastery, success, triumph |
| Main Entry: | delay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deferment, interruption |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, bind, check, cooling-off period, cunctation, dawdling, demurral, detention, discontinuation, downtime, filibuster, hangup, hindrance, hold-up, holding, holding pattern, impediment, interval, jam, lag, lingering, logjam, loitering, moratorium, obstruction, postponement, problem, procrastination, prorogation, putting off, remission, reprieve, retardation, retardment, setback, showstopper, stall, stay, stop, stoppage, surcease, suspension, tarrying, tie-up, wait |
| Notes: | various things may cause a delay, but a postponement will result from the action of a person |
| Antonyms: | advance, dispatch, expedition, furtherance, hastening, hurry, rush, speed |
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