setback
setback
nounDefinition of SETBACK
a change in status for the worse usually temporarily <the colonists persevered despite suffering setbacks that would have discouraged lesser souls>
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
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