What are the opposite words for boost?
Boost refers to an increase or enhancement in something, but there are certainly times when the opposite is needed. The antonyms of boost include reduce, decrease, lower, diminish, hinder, and impede. When an organization needs to downsize, it is looking to reduce its workforce, not boost it. Similarly, when the economy is struggling, governments may lower interest rates to help, not boost them. Similarly, if traffic is slowing down due to roadblocks, it is said to be impeded, not boosted. Overall, antonyms for boost are words used to describe the opposite of an increase or enhancement.
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- humble
- destroy
- increase
- punish
- frighten
- cheapen
- browbeat
- come down
- corrupt
- cumber
- demean
- denigrate
- encumber
- hamper
- humiliate
- obstruct
- put down
- blast
- bully
- chasten
- debase
- deflate
- demoralize
- explode
- oppress
- smite
- worsen
- further, improve
- push, usually up
- castigate, nag
- intimidate, push around
- scarify
- correct, humiliate
- diminish worth
- pervert; pollute
- degrade, shame
- reduce or cause to contract
- humble, humiliate
- depress, unnerve
- belittle, malign
- bother, burden
- shame, put down
- embarrass, put down
- prevent, restrict
- depress, subdue
- penalize for wrongdoing
- defeat
- blow
- disappointment
- anticlimax
- check
- discomfiture
- encouragement
- frustration
- problem
- catastrophe
- disaster
- holdup
- misfortune
- retardation
- reverse
- setback
- comedown
- ineffective conclusion
- restraint, hindrance
- letdown, blow
- saddening situation; letdown
- embarrassment, frustration
- disappointment, thwarting
- obstacle, impediment
- bad luck; failure
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
humble
- strike dumb,
- struck dumb,
- cut to the quick,
- cut quick,
- cut the quick,
- cut to quick,
- cuts quick,
- cuts the quick,
- cuts to quick,
- cuts to the quick,
- cutting quick,
- cutting the quick,
- cutting to quick,
- cutting to the quick,
- de mote,
- de motes,
- de moting,
- de-mote,
- de-motes,
- de-moting,
- dis comfit,
- dis comfits,
- dis-comfit,
- dis-comfits,
- made eat dirt,
- made feel small,
- made one feel small,
- make eat dirt,
- make feel small,
- make one feel small,
- makes feel small,
- makes one feel small,
- making eat dirt,
- making feel small,
- over come,
- over comes,
- over coming,
- over-comes,
- over-coming,
- pop balloon,
- pop one's balloon,
- pop ones balloon,
- popped balloon,
- popped one balloon,
- popped one's balloon,
- popped ones balloon,
- popping one balloon,
- popping ones balloon,
- pops balloon,
- pops one balloon,
- pops one's balloon,
- pops ones balloon,
- put shame,
- puts one away,
- putting one away,
- strikes dumb,
- striking dumb,
- strook dumb.
- destroy
- increase
-
punish
- attend to,
- defrock,
- defrocked,
- crack down on,
- throw the book at,
- cracked down on,
- attended to,
- attending to,
- attends to,
- cracking down on,
- cracks down on,
- de bar,
- de barred,
- de barring,
- de bars,
- de frock,
- de frocked,
- de frocking,
- de frocks,
- de-bar,
- de-barred,
- de-barring,
- de-bars,
- de-frock,
- de-frocked,
- de-frocking,
- de-frocks,
- defrocking,
- defrocks,
- dis missed,
- dis missing,
- dis-missed,
- dis-missing,
- gave a going over,
- gave the works,
- gave works,
- give a going over,
- give going over,
- give works,
- gives a going over,
- gives going over,
- gives the works,
- giving a going over,
- giving going over,
- giving the works,
- giving works,
- rap knuckles,
- rapped knuckles,
- rapping knuckles,
- raps knuckles,
- rapt knuckles,
- slap wrist,
- slapped wrist,
- slapping wrist,
- slaps wrist,
- taught a lesson,
- taught lesson,
- teach a lesson,
- teach lesson,
- teaches a lesson,
- teaches lesson,
- teaching lesson,
- threw book at,
- threw the book at,
- throw book at,
- throwing book at,
- throwing the book at,
- throws book at,
- throws the book at.
- frighten
-
cheapen
- beat down,
- mark down,
- marked down,
- render worthless,
- be little,
- be littles,
- be-little,
- be-littles,
- beating down,
- beats down,
- de cried,
- de cries,
- de cry,
- de crying,
- de grade,
- de graded,
- de grades,
- de grading,
- de value,
- de valued,
- de values,
- de valuing,
- de-cried,
- de-cries,
- de-cry,
- de-crying,
- de-grade,
- de-graded,
- de-grades,
- de-grading,
- de-value,
- de-valued,
- de-values,
- de-valuing,
- dis credit,
- dis credited,
- dis crediting,
- dis credits,
- dis-credit,
- dis-credited,
- dis-crediting,
- dis-credits,
- losing value,
- lost value,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- rendered worthless,
- renders worthless,
- under value,
- under valued,
- under values,
- under-value,
- under-valued,
- under-values,
- under-valuing.
-
browbeat
- dragoon,
- lean on,
- lord it over,
- overawe,
- overawed,
- overbear,
- Despotize,
- Dragooned,
- Dragooning,
- Overawing,
- dragoons,
- overawes,
- despotized,
- despotizes,
- bludgeoning,
- bludgeoned,
- overborne,
- Over-bearing,
- co wed,
- co wing,
- co-wed,
- co-wing,
- despotizing,
- leaned on,
- leaning on,
- leans on,
- leant on,
- lord over,
- lorded it over,
- lorded over,
- lording it over,
- lording over,
- lords it over,
- lords over,
- over awe,
- over awed,
- over awes,
- over awing,
- over bear,
- over bearing,
- over bears,
- over bore,
- over born,
- over borne,
- over-awe,
- over-awed,
- over-awes,
- over-awing,
- over-bear,
- over-bears,
- over-bore,
- over-born,
- over-borne,
- overbears,
- overbore,
- overborn,
- put chill on,
- put heat on,
- put the chill on,
- put through the wringer,
- put through wringer,
- puts chill on,
- puts heat on,
- puts the chill on,
- puts through the wringer,
- puts through wringer,
- putting chill on,
- putting heat on,
- putting the chill on,
- putting through the wringer,
- putting through wringer.
-
come down
- went downhill,
- goes downhill,
- go downhill,
- going downhill,
- de crease,
- de creased,
- de creases,
- de creasing,
- de generate,
- de generated,
- de generates,
- de generating,
- de scend,
- de scended,
- de scending,
- de scends,
- de-crease,
- de-creased,
- de-creases,
- de-creasing,
- de-generate,
- de-generated,
- de-generates,
- de-generating,
- de-scend,
- de-scended,
- de-scending,
- de-scends.
-
corrupt
- Illtreat,
- DE Form,
- de cay,
- de cays,
- de compose,
- de composed,
- de composes,
- de composing,
- de face,
- de faced,
- de faces,
- de facing,
- de file,
- de filed,
- de files,
- de filing,
- de formed,
- de forming,
- de forms,
- de spoil,
- de spoiled,
- de spoiling,
- de spoils,
- de-cay,
- de-cays,
- de-compose,
- de-composed,
- de-composes,
- de-composing,
- de-face,
- de-faced,
- de-faces,
- de-facing,
- de-file,
- de-filed,
- de-files,
- de-filing,
- de-form,
- de-formed,
- de-forming,
- de-forms,
- de-spoil,
- de-spoiled,
- de-spoiling,
- de-spoils,
- dis figure,
- dis figured,
- dis figures,
- dis figuring,
- dis grace,
- dis graced,
- dis graces,
- dis gracing,
- dis honor,
- dis honored,
- dis honoring,
- dis honors,
- dis-figure,
- dis-figured,
- dis-figures,
- dis-figuring,
- dis-grace,
- dis-graced,
- dis-graces,
- dis-gracing,
- dis-honor,
- dis-honored,
- dis-honoring,
- dis-honors,
- grease palm,
- greased palm,
- greases palm,
- greasing palm,
- mis treat,
- mis treated,
- mis treating,
- mis treats,
- mis used,
- mis using,
- mis-treat,
- mis-treated,
- mis-treats,
- mis-used,
- mis-using,
- out raged,
- out rages,
- out-rage,
- out-raged,
- out-rages,
- out-raging,
- under mined,
- under mining,
- under-mined,
- under-mining.
- cumber
-
demean
- badmouth,
- dis,
- cut rate,
- DISES,
- poor-mouth,
- poor-mouthing,
- cuts rate,
- cutting rate,
- de mean,
- de meaning,
- de means,
- de tract,
- de tracts,
- de-mean,
- de-meaning,
- de-means,
- de-tract,
- de-tracts,
- dissed,
- disses,
- dissing,
- poor mouth,
- poor mouthed,
- poor mouthing,
- poor mouths,
- poor-mouthed,
- poor-mouths,
- poormouth,
- poormouthed,
- poormouthing,
- poormouths.
-
denigrate
- blistered,
- libel,
- rip up,
- Vilified,
- bad mouth,
- be smirch,
- be smirched,
- be smirches,
- be smirching,
- be-smirch,
- be-smirched,
- be-smirches,
- be-smirching,
- de fame,
- de famed,
- de fames,
- de faming,
- de-fame,
- de-famed,
- de-fames,
- de-faming,
- gave black eye,
- give black eye,
- gives black eye,
- giving black eye,
- mudsling,
- mudslinged,
- mudslings,
- re vile,
- re-vile,
- ripped up,
- ripping up,
- rips up.
-
encumber
- saddled,
- slow down,
- weighted,
- weighting,
- Saddling,
- hang up,
- hogtie,
- saddle with,
- over-burden,
- over-burdening,
- over-burdened,
- make difficult,
- slowed down,
- slowing down,
- dis commode,
- dis commodes,
- dis-commode,
- dis-commodes,
- hanged up,
- hanging up,
- hog tie,
- in commode,
- in commodes,
- in conveniences,
- in-commodes,
- in-convenience,
- in-conveniences,
- made difficult,
- makes difficult,
- over burden,
- over burdened,
- over burdening,
- over burdens,
- over loaded,
- over loading,
- over loads,
- over-load,
- over-loaded,
- over-loading,
- over-loads,
- saddled with,
- saddles with,
- saddling with,
- slows down.
- hamper
-
humiliate
- bring low,
- put out of countenance,
- make a fool of,
- make ashamed,
- bringing low,
- brings low,
- brought low,
- made a fool of,
- made ashamed,
- made fool of,
- make fool of,
- makes ashamed,
- makes fool of,
- making a fool of,
- making ashamed,
- put out countenance,
- puts out countenance,
- puts out of countenance,
- putting out countenance,
- putting out of countenance.
-
obstruct
- drag one's feet,
- occlude,
- sandbag,
- stoppered,
- Stoppering,
- sandbagged,
- sandbagging,
- monkey with,
- drag feet,
- drag one feet,
- drag ones feet,
- dragged feet,
- dragged one feet,
- dragged one's feet,
- dragged ones feet,
- dragging feet,
- dragging one feet,
- dragging one's feet,
- dragging ones feet,
- drags feet,
- drags one feet,
- drags one's feet,
- drags ones feet,
- gat in the way,
- gat in way,
- gat the way,
- gat way,
- get in the way,
- get in way,
- get the way,
- get way,
- gets in the way,
- gets in way,
- gets the way,
- gets way,
- getting in the way,
- getting in way,
- getting the way,
- getting way,
- got in the way,
- got in way,
- got the way,
- got way,
- gotten in the way,
- gotten in way,
- gotten the way,
- gotten way,
- inter fere,
- inter feres,
- inter-fere,
- inter-feres,
- monkeying with,
- monkeys with,
- sandbags.
-
put down
- jot down,
- set down,
- write down,
- put down,
- setting down,
- sets down,
- dis counted,
- dis counting,
- dis counts,
- dis-counted,
- dis-counting,
- dis-counts,
- downcried,
- downcries,
- downcry,
- downcrying,
- in scribe,
- in scribes,
- in-scribe,
- in-scribes,
- in-scribing,
- jots down,
- jotted down,
- jotting down,
- opprobriate,
- opprobriates,
- opprobriating,
- re cord,
- re corded,
- re cording,
- re cords,
- re-cord,
- re-corded,
- re-cording,
- re-cords,
- writ down,
- writes down,
- wrote down.
- blast
-
bully
- buffalo,
- ride roughshod,
- showboat,
- Buffaloes,
- showboats,
- buffaloed,
- buffaloing,
- rid roughshod,
- rides roughshod,
- riding roughshod,
- rode roughshod,
- showboated,
- turn heat,
- turn on heat,
- turn on the heat,
- turned heat,
- turned on heat,
- turned on the heat,
- turning heat,
- turning on heat,
- turning on the heat,
- turning the heat,
- turns heat,
- turns on heat,
- turns on the heat,
- walked heavy,
- walking heavy,
- walks heavy.
-
chasten
- call down,
- disciplined,
- Disciplining,
- tongue-lash,
- take to task,
- have on the carpet,
- be rate,
- be rated,
- be rates,
- be rating,
- be-rate,
- be-rated,
- be-rates,
- be-rating,
- called down,
- calling down,
- calls down,
- ex probate,
- ex probated,
- ex probates,
- ex probating,
- ex-probate,
- ex-probated,
- ex-probates,
- ex-probating,
- exprobate,
- exprobated,
- exprobates,
- exprobating,
- fulminate against,
- fulminated against,
- fulminates against,
- fulminating against,
- had carpet,
- had on carpet,
- had on the carpet,
- had the carpet,
- haddest carpet,
- haddest on carpet,
- haddest on the carpet,
- haddest the carpet,
- hadst carpet,
- hadst on carpet,
- hadst on the carpet,
- hadst the carpet,
- has carpet,
- has on carpet,
- has on the carpet,
- has the carpet,
- hast carpet,
- hast on carpet,
- hast on the carpet,
- hast the carpet,
- hath carpet,
- hath on carpet,
- hath on the carpet,
- hath the carpet,
- have carpet,
- have on carpet,
- have the carpet,
- having carpet,
- having on carpet,
- having on the carpet,
- having the carpet,
- rake over coals,
- re press,
- re pressed,
- re presses,
- re pressing,
- re prove,
- re proved,
- re proves,
- re strain,
- re strained,
- re straining,
- re strains,
- re-press,
- re-presses,
- re-pressing,
- re-prove,
- re-proved,
- re-proves,
- re-proving,
- re-strain,
- re-strained,
- re-straining,
- re-strains,
- sub due,
- sub dues,
- sub-due,
- sub-dues,
- take task,
- takes task,
- takes to task,
- taking task,
- taking to task,
- tongue lash,
- tongue lashed,
- tongue lashes,
- tongue lashing,
- tongue-lashed,
- tongue-lashes,
- tonguelash,
- tonguelashed,
- tonguelashes,
- tonguelashing,
- took task,
- took to task,
- up braid,
- up braided,
- up braids,
- up-braid,
- up-braided,
- up-braiding,
- up-braids.
-
debase
- cast down,
- drag down,
- Bemean,
- shoot down,
- take down a peg,
- dump on,
- be mean,
- be meaning,
- be means,
- be-mean,
- be-meaning,
- be-means,
- bemeaned,
- bemeaning,
- bemeans,
- casting down,
- casts down,
- de base,
- de based,
- de basing,
- de valuate,
- de valuated,
- de valuates,
- de valuating,
- de-base,
- de-based,
- de-basing,
- de-valuate,
- de-valuated,
- de-valuates,
- de-valuating,
- dragged down,
- dragging down,
- drags down,
- dumped on,
- dumping on,
- dumps on,
- fluff off,
- fluffed off,
- fluffing off,
- fluffs off,
- shooting down,
- shoots down,
- shot down,
- takes down a peg,
- takes down peg,
- taking down a peg,
- taking down peg,
- took down peg.
-
deflate
- knocked down,
- knocks down,
- knocking down,
- let down easy,
- knock down,
- cut down size,
- cut down to size,
- cuts down size,
- cuts down to size,
- cutting down size,
- cutting down to size,
- de bunk,
- de bunked,
- de bunking,
- de bunks,
- de press,
- de pressed,
- de presses,
- de pressing,
- de-bunk,
- de-bunked,
- de-bunking,
- de-bunks,
- de-press,
- de-pressed,
- de-presses,
- de-pressing,
- dis concert,
- dis concerted,
- dis concerting,
- dis concerts,
- dis-concert,
- dis-concerted,
- dis-concerting,
- dis-concerts,
- kick in teeth,
- kick in the teeth,
- kick teeth,
- kick the teeth,
- kicked in teeth,
- kicked in the teeth,
- kicked teeth,
- kicked the teeth,
- kicking in teeth,
- kicking in the teeth,
- kicking teeth,
- kicking the teeth,
- kicks in teeth,
- kicks in the teeth,
- kicks teeth,
- kicks the teeth,
- let wind out of sails,
- let wind out sails,
- lets down easy,
- lets wind out of sails,
- lets wind out sails,
- letted down easy,
- letted wind out of sails,
- letted wind out sails,
- letting down easy,
- letting wind out of sails,
- letting wind out sails,
- puncture balloon,
- punctured balloon,
- punctures balloon,
- puncturing balloon.
-
demoralize
- get to,
- take apart,
- taking apart,
- unman,
- unmanned,
- Damped,
- Damping,
- Unglue,
- blow out,
- unglued,
- unglues,
- ungluing,
- unmans,
- unmanning,
- DAMPS,
- send up,
- psych out,
- sent up,
- blew out,
- blowing out,
- blows out,
- de moralize,
- de moralized,
- de moralizes,
- de moralizing,
- de-moralize,
- de-moralized,
- de-moralizes,
- de-moralizing,
- dis arrange,
- dis arranged,
- dis arranges,
- dis arranging,
- dis countenance,
- dis countenanced,
- dis countenances,
- dis countenancing,
- dis courage,
- dis courages,
- dis hearten,
- dis heartened,
- dis heartening,
- dis heartens,
- dis order,
- dis ordered,
- dis ordering,
- dis orders,
- dis organize,
- dis organized,
- dis organizes,
- dis organizing,
- dis-arrange,
- dis-arranged,
- dis-arranges,
- dis-arranging,
- dis-countenance,
- dis-countenanced,
- dis-countenances,
- dis-countenancing,
- dis-courage,
- dis-courages,
- dis-hearten,
- dis-heartened,
- dis-heartening,
- dis-heartens,
- dis-order,
- dis-ordered,
- dis-ordering,
- dis-orders,
- dis-organize,
- dis-organized,
- dis-organizes,
- dis-organizing,
- gat to,
- gets to,
- getting to,
- got to,
- gotten to,
- psyched out,
- psyching out,
- psychs out,
- sending up,
- sends up,
- take steam out,
- takes apart,
- takes steam out,
- taking steam out,
- took apart,
- took steam out,
- un glue,
- un glued,
- un glues,
- un gluing,
- un man,
- un manned,
- un manning,
- un mans,
- un settle,
- un settled,
- un settles,
- un settling,
- un zip,
- un zipping,
- un zips,
- un-glue,
- un-glued,
- un-glues,
- un-gluing,
- un-man,
- un-manning,
- un-mans,
- un-settle,
- un-settled,
- un-settles,
- un-settling,
- un-zip,
- un-zipped,
- un-zipping,
- un-zips,
- up setting,
- up-setting.
- explode
-
oppress
- keep down,
- dis tressed,
- dis-tressed,
- keeping down,
- keeps down,
- kept down,
- over powered,
- over powering,
- over powers,
- over throwing,
- over thrown,
- over whelm,
- over whelmed,
- over whelming,
- over whelms,
- over-power,
- over-powered,
- over-powering,
- over-throwing,
- over-thrown,
- over-whelm,
- over-whelmed,
- over-whelming,
- over-whelms,
- put screws to,
- put squeeze on,
- put up on,
- put upon,
- puts screws to,
- puts squeeze on,
- puts the squeeze on,
- puts upon,
- putting screws to,
- putting the squeeze on,
- putting upon,
- sub jugate,
- tyrranize,
- tyrranized,
- tyrranizes,
- tyrranizing,
- weigh heavy up on,
- weigh heavy upon,
- weighed heavy up on,
- weighed heavy upon,
- weighing heavy up on,
- weighing heavy upon,
- weighs heavy up on,
- weighs heavy upon.
- smite
- worsen
- further, improve
- push, usually up
- castigate, nag
- intimidate, push around
-
scarify
- scare away,
- scare off,
- stiffs,
- stiffed,
- stiffing,
- scared to death,
- chill bone,
- chill the bone,
- chill to bone,
- chill to the bone,
- chilled bone,
- chilled the bone,
- chilled to bone,
- chilled to the bone,
- chilling bone,
- chilling the bone,
- chilling to bone,
- chilling to the bone,
- chills bone,
- chills the bone,
- chills to bone,
- chills to the bone,
- curdle blood,
- curdle the blood,
- curdled blood,
- curdled the blood,
- curdles blood,
- curdles the blood,
- curdling blood,
- curdling the blood,
- dis burb,
- dis burbs,
- dis comforted,
- dis comforting,
- dis may,
- dis mayed,
- dis maying,
- dis mays,
- dis quieted,
- dis quieting,
- dis-burb,
- dis-burbs,
- dis-comforted,
- dis-comforting,
- dis-may,
- dis-mayed,
- dis-maying,
- dis-mays,
- dis-quieted,
- dis-quieting,
- disburb,
- disburbed,
- disburbing,
- disburbs,
- made blood run cold,
- made hair stand end,
- made one blood run cold,
- made one hair stand end,
- made one hair stand on end,
- made one's blood run cold,
- made one's hair stand end,
- made one's hair stand on end,
- made ones blood run cold,
- made ones hair stand end,
- made ones hair stand on end,
- made teeth chatter,
- make hair stand end,
- make hair stand on end,
- make one hair stand end,
- make one hair stand on end,
- make one's blood run cold,
- make one's hair stand end,
- make ones blood run cold,
- make ones hair stand end,
- make ones hair stand on end,
- make teeth chatter,
- makes hair stand end,
- makes hair stand on end,
- makes one blood run cold,
- makes one's blood run cold,
- makes one's hair stand end,
- makes one's hair stand on end,
- makes ones blood run cold,
- makes ones hair stand end,
- makes ones hair stand on end,
- making blood run cold,
- making hair stand end,
- making hair stand on end,
- making one blood run cold,
- making one hair stand end,
- making one hair stand on end,
- making one's blood run cold,
- making one's hair stand end,
- making one's hair stand on end,
- making ones hair stand end,
- making ones hair stand on end,
- making teeth chatter,
- scare to death,
- scared away,
- scared death,
- scared off,
- scared the daylights out of,
- scares away,
- scares daylights out of,
- scares death,
- scares the daylights out of,
- scaring away,
- scaring daylights out of,
- scaring death,
- scaring the daylights out of,
- scaring to death,
- sillied,
- sillies,
- sillying,
- strike terror in to,
- strike terror into,
- strikes terror in to,
- strikes terror into,
- striking terror in to,
- striking terror into,
- strook terror in to,
- strook terror into,
- struck terror in to,
- struck terror into,
- un hinge,
- un hinged,
- un hinges,
- un hinging,
- un nerve,
- un nerved,
- un nerves,
- un nerving,
- un-hinge,
- un-hinged,
- un-hinges,
- un-hinging,
- un-nerve,
- un-nerving.
- correct, humiliate
- diminish worth
- pervert; pollute
- degrade, shame
- reduce or cause to contract
- humble, humiliate
- depress, unnerve
- belittle, malign
- bother, burden
- shame, put down
- embarrass, put down
- prevent, restrict
- depress, subdue
- penalize for wrongdoing
- defeat
- blow
-
disappointment
- bafflement,
- disenchantment,
- disillusionment,
- fiasco,
- letdown,
- setback,
- washout,
- errors,
- nonsuccess,
- bringdown,
- unfulfillment,
- adverse fate,
- adverse fates,
- bafflements,
- bringdowns,
- dis appointment,
- dis appointments,
- dis content,
- dis contents,
- dis enchantment,
- dis enchantments,
- dis illusion,
- dis illusions,
- dis satisfaction,
- dis satisfactions,
- dis tress,
- dis tresses,
- dis-appointment,
- dis-appointments,
- dis-content,
- dis-contents,
- dis-enchantment,
- dis-enchantments,
- dis-illusion,
- dis-illusions,
- dis-satisfaction,
- dis-satisfactions,
- dis-tress,
- dis-tresses,
- disenchantments,
- disillusionments,
- flash in pan,
- flash the pan,
- in efficacies,
- in efficacy,
- in-efficacies,
- in-efficacy,
- lack of success,
- lack success,
- mis calculation,
- mis chance,
- mis chances,
- mis take,
- mis takes,
- mis-calculation,
- mis-calculations,
- mis-chance,
- mis-chances,
- mis-take,
- mis-takes,
- non success,
- non successes,
- non-successes,
- nonsuccesses,
- old one two,
- old one twos,
- old one-two,
- old one-twos,
- old onetwo,
- old onetwos,
- the knock,
- the knocks,
- un fulfillments,
- un-fulfillment,
- un-fulfillments,
- unfulfillments.
- anticlimax
- check
-
discomfiture
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- de feasance,
- de feasances,
- de moralization,
- de moralizations,
- de-feasance,
- de-feasances,
- de-moralization,
- de-moralizations,
- dis composure,
- dis composures,
- dis quiet,
- dis quiets,
- dis-composure,
- dis-composures,
- dis-quiet,
- dis-quiets,
- disconcertions,
- disconcertments,
- over throw,
- over throws,
- over-throw,
- over-throws,
- un eases,
- un easiness,
- un-ease,
- un-eases,
- un-easiness,
- un-easinesses.
- encouragement
- frustration
- problem
-
catastrophe
- blow.
- disaster
- holdup
-
misfortune
- tough luck,
- hard luck,
- bad break,
- bad breaks,
- dis advantage,
- dis advantages,
- dis comfort,
- dis comforts,
- dis-advantage,
- dis-advantages,
- dis-comfort,
- dis-comforts,
- hard lucks,
- in felicities,
- in felicity,
- in-felicities,
- mis fortune,
- mis fortunes,
- mis-fortunes,
- rotten luck,
- rotten lucks,
- un luck,
- un lucks,
- un pleasantness,
- un pleasantnesses,
- un-luck,
- un-lucks,
- un-pleasantness,
- un-pleasantnesses,
- unlucks.
-
retardation
- cunctation,
- demurral,
- logjam,
- prorogation,
- Retardment,
- showstopper,
- cooling-off period,
- cooling off period,
- cooling off periods,
- cooling-off periods,
- coolingoff period,
- coolingoff periods,
- cunctations,
- dawdlings,
- demurrals,
- dis continuation,
- dis continuations,
- dis-continuation,
- dis-continuations,
- hangup,
- logjams,
- loiterings,
- pro rogation,
- pro rogations,
- pro-rogation,
- pro-rogations,
- procrastinations,
- prorogations,
- putting offs,
- re mission,
- re missions,
- re-mission,
- re-missions,
- retardments,
- showstoppers,
- sur cease,
- sur ceases,
- sur-cease,
- sur-ceases,
- tarryings,
- tieup.
- reverse
- setback
- comedown
- ineffective conclusion
- restraint, hindrance
- letdown, blow
- saddening situation; letdown
- embarrassment, frustration
- disappointment, thwarting
- obstacle, impediment
- bad luck; failure
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Other relevant words
- abase,
- abate,
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- attenuate,
- castrate,
- cauterize,
- chasten,
- curtail,
- dampen,
- daunt,
- de-escalate,
- deaden,
- debase,
- deduct,
- degrade,
- dehydrate,
- deject,
- demoralize,
- deplete,
- depreciate,
- depress,
- desiccate,
- devitalize,
- diminish,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- dispirit,
- downscale,
- dwindle,
- elide,
- enervate,
- frustrate,
- geld,
- humiliate,
- lessen,
- muffle,
- oppress,
- petrify,
- reduce,
- sadden,
- shorten,
- stifle,
- subtract,
- suppress,
- truncate,
- unnerve,
- weigh down,
- write off,
- downsize,
- lobotomize,
- constraint,
- deterrence,
- discouragement,
- disincentive,
- frustration,
- hindrance,
- lessening,
- lowering,
- repression,
- restraint.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
yesperson
- Antonyms:
- adversary, antagonist, boss.
