What are some opposite words for lapse?
Antonyms for lapse
læpslapse
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lapse
Antonyms:
stability, uprightness, stationariness, fixture, arrestation, stoppage, retention, inheritance, possessionSynonyms:
gliding, falling, flow, onflow, flux, progress, escheatment, devolution, reversion, elapsing
Princeton's WordNet
oversight, lapsenoun
a mistake resulting from inattention
Synonyms:
supervision, reverting, superintendence, relapse, supervising, reversion, inadvertence, relapsing, oversight, lapsing, backslidinglapsenoun
a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
"a lapse of three weeks between letters"
Synonyms:
backsliding, lapsing, reversion, reverting, oversight, relapse, relapsingbacksliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, revertingverb
a failure to maintain a higher state
Synonyms:
reversal, atavism, oversight, turnaround, relapsing, regress, backsliding, lapsing, throwback, regression, turnabout, reverse, reverting, relapse, retrogression, reversion, retroversionsink, pass, lapseverb
pass into a specified state or condition
"He sank into nirvana"
Synonyms:
run, perish, fall back, elapse, go past, make pass, lead, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, backslide, occur, die, drop down, subside, snuff it, excrete, turn over, go, spend, slide by, recidivate, fade, hand, legislate, happen, egest, exit, exceed, fleet, pass away, slip away, drop dead, overstep, slide down, make it, authorize, pop off, expire, regress, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, retrogress, give, fall out, hap, slip by, go on, sink, eliminate, croak, pass off, give-up the ghost, return, blow over, take place, fall off, overhaul, go through, reach, dip, communicate, go under, come about, choke, pass by, go across, overtake, transcend, glide by, relapse, extend, decease, fall, pass, clear, drop, conk, travel by, bury, buy the farm, go down, pass along, authorise, go along, surpass, guide, slump, settle, pass onlapseverb
end, at least for a long time
"The correspondence lapsed"
Synonyms:
slide by, retrogress, glide by, slip away, go by, slip by, relapse, recidivate, sink, elapse, backslide, fall back, pass, go along, regresslapse, backslideverb
drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
Synonyms:
slide by, retrogress, glide by, slip away, go by, slip by, relapse, recidivate, sink, elapse, backslide, fall back, pass, go along, regressrelapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall backverb
go back to bad behavior
"Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
Synonyms:
go along, slip away, recidivate, backslide, retrogress, lag, retrovert, regress, elapse, dawdle, revert, fall back, fall behind, sink, lose, glide by, retrograde, resort, pass, return, slide by, recede, drop off, relapse, slip by, go by, get worse, recur, turn backlapseverb
let slip
"He lapsed his membership"
Synonyms:
slide by, retrogress, glide by, slip away, go by, slip by, relapse, recidivate, sink, elapse, backslide, fall back, pass, go along, regresselapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go alongverb
pass by
"three years elapsed"
Synonyms:
run, perish, elapse, go past, make pass, lead, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, continue, occur, die, sneak off, snuff it, excrete, turn over, go, spend, fall back, recidivate, fade, hand, legislate, happen, egest, authorise, exceed, fleet, pass away, slip away, drop dead, overstep, transcend, make it, authorize, sneak out, regress, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, give, fall out, hap, slip by, go on, sink, eliminate, croak, pass off, give-up the ghost, return, blow over, take place, play along, expire, overhaul, go through, reach, communicate, go under, come about, keep, choke, pop off, go across, overtake, glide by, sneak away, extend, decease, fall, pass, proceed, pass by, clear, exit, conk, travel by, buy the farm, relapse, pass along, steal away, retrogress, slide by, go along, surpass, guide, backslide, pass on
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
lapsenoun
Synonyms:
slip, misstep, indiscretion, backsliding, devolution
How to use lapse in a sentence?
We're five plus weeks into the anxiety and stress of this government lapse and your non-pay, you as members of the armed forces should not be expected to shoulder this burden.
It's hard to believe Ex-Im is going to lapse. But we are.
The fact that they just painted out something without thinking about it is a real lapse in judgment.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
The The House managers have said shame and embarrassment is no excuse for lying. Well, the question about lying, that's your decision. But I can tell you, you put yourself in President Clinton position, and you've already had this big moral lapse, as to what you would do. We are -- none of us are perfect. Sure, you say, President Clinton should have thought of all that beforehand. And indeed President Clinton should. Just as Adam and Eve should have. Just as you and you and you and you, and millions of other people who have been caught in similar circumstances should have thought of it before. And I say none of us are perfect.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4695 | stability | |
#6563 | retention | |
#6648 | possession | |
#11534 | inheritance | |
#14918 | fixture | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#48365 | stoppage | |
#138911 | uprightness |
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