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setback

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of setback

a change in status for the worse usually temporarily

the colonists persevered despite suffering setbacks that would have discouraged lesser souls

Synonyms of setback

knock, lapse, reversal, reverse

Words Related to setback

disappointment, frustration, letdown

comedown, decline, descent, down, downfall, fall

turnabout, turnaround

recession, regression, retrogression, reversion

breakdown, collapse, crash, meltdown, ruin, undoing

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