Entry Word: reverse

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a change in status for the worse usually temporarily <the loss of my paper route was just the first of my financial reverses since the start of the new year>

Synonyms lapse, reversal, setback

Related Words disappointment, frustration, letdown; comedown, decline, descent, down, downfall, fall; turnabout, turnaround; recession, regression, retrogression, reversion; relapse; breakdown, collapse, crash, meltdown, ruin, undoing

Near Antonyms status quo

2 something that is as different as possible from something else <how could you think I donʼt like pizza, when itʼs just the reverse: I love pizza> — see opposite