Synonyms for Backsliding:

• adj.

  •recessive (adjective)
  • recessive,
  • regressive.
  •regressive (adjective)
  • backward.
  •renegade (adjective)
  • untraditional.

• n.

  •
  • enormity,
  • backslide,
  • immorality,
  • wrong,
  • evil,
  • depravity,
  • excess,
  • iniquity,
  • better,
  • decadence,
  • sin,
  • repetition,
  • villainy.
  •abandonment (noun)
  • defection,
  • desertion.
  •act (noun)
  • lapse,
  • relapse,
  • lapsing,
  • reverting,
  • backsliding,
  • relapsing.
  •decline (noun)
  • de-cays,
  • de scent,
  • re-cessions,
  • de-cline,
  • de-volution,
  • devolutions,
  • de-scent,
  • de clines,
  • dwindlings,
  • de cays,
  • on skid,
  • de generation,
  • de volutions,
  • dis-solution,
  • dis-solutions,
  • de-scents,
  • de scents,
  • worsenings,
  • de-generation,
  • falling offs,
  • re cession,
  • on the skid,
  • dis solution,
  • weakenings,
  • de-generations,
  • re-cession,
  • de-clines,
  • dis solutions,
  • de cay,
  • re cessions,
  • de-cay,
  • de generations,
  • on skids,
  • de volution,
  • de cline,
  • de-volutions.
  •defection (noun)
  • dis-affections,
  • re-volt,
  • dis-affection,
  • dis-loyalties,
  • re volts,
  • disownments,
  • re treats,
  • dis affections,
  • forsakings,
  • sunderings,
  • re-volts,
  • dis loyalty,
  • re volt,
  • dis affection,
  • dis-loyalty,
  • re-treat,
  • dis loyalties,
  • re-treats.
  •desertion (noun)
  • dis avowals,
  • de relict,
  • dis avowing,
  • dis-avowal,
  • departings,
  • dis-avowing,
  • running out ons,
  • disavowings,
  • defectings,
  • de relicts,
  • de-parting,
  • de-relict,
  • maroonings,
  • de-relicts,
  • going back ons,
  • de-partings,
  • dis-avowals,
  • falling aways,
  • de partings,
  • dis avowal,
  • de parting.
  •reaction (noun)
  • counterrevolutions,
  • obscurantisms,
  • counter revolutions,
  • re-action,
  • toryisms,
  • re-actions,
  • counter-revolutions,
  • counter revolution,
  • re actions,
  • re action.
  •recidivation (noun)
  • de cadences,
  • de cadence,
  • de-cadences,
  • de-cadence.
  •recreance (noun)
  • re-creance,
  • re creance,
  • re creances,
  • re-creances.
  •regression (noun)
  • return,
  • Retrocession,
  • regression,
  • recession,
  • Retrogradation,
  • throwback,
  • retrogression.
  •relapse (noun)
  • recurrence,
  • turn for the worse.
  •renunciation (noun)
  • about-face,
  • renouncement,
  • abdication,
  • turnabout,
  • dereliction,
  • abandonment,
  • apostasy,
  • betrayal,
  • abnegation,
  • Retractation,
  • denial.
  •retrogradation (noun)
  • retro gradations,
  • retro gradation,
  • retro-gradation,
  • retro-gradations.
  •reversion (noun)
  • throwbacks,
  • atavisms.

• v.

  •receding (verb)
  • receding,
  • fleeing,
  • retreating,
  • regressing.
  •regressing (verb)
  • returning,
  • Recessing,
  • declining.
  •relapsing (verb)
  • Recurring.
  •renouncing (verb)
  • Abdicating,
  • Renouncing,
  • crossing,
  • Retracting,
  • Disavowing,
  • betraying,
  • Abnegating,
  • Denying,
  • Abandoning,
  • defecting,
  • Deserting.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • heresy,
  • brutality,
  • Virtueless,
  • impiety,
  • pass,
  • reentry,
  • fleshly,
  • restoration,
  • malevolence,
  • deviate,
  • nasty,
  • hardness of heart,
  • infirm,
  • impure,
  • corruption,
  • vice,
  • lose,
  • laxity,
  • unmorality,
  • slip by,
  • deteriorate,
  • prodigal,
  • Flagrancy,
  • uncleanness,
  • viciousness,
  • fault,
  • revert,
  • prodigality,
  • impropriety,
  • impious,
  • wantonness,
  • omission,
  • degeneration,
  • heterodoxy,
  • volte-face,
  • unclean,
  • recreant,
  • control,
  • reversal,
  • reclamation,
  • lead,
  • ungodliness,
  • Schismaticalness,
  • cannibalism,
  • irreligion,
  • slide by,
  • let slip,
  • reprobation,
  • deterioration,
  • retrogress,
  • profanatory,
  • recrudescence,
  • Retroaction,
  • rehabilitation,
  • backward step,
  • profligacy,
  • waywardness,
  • reinstatement,
  • amorality,
  • Recidivous,
  • recidivist,
  • lapsed,
  • disenchantment,
  • irreverent,
  • apostate,
  • sacrilegious,
  • false,
  • Pravity,
  • weak,
  • perversion,
  • deliver,
  • backward motion,
  • Peccability,
  • profane,
  • pass by,
  • charge,
  • flip-flop,
  • undutiful,
  • treason,
  • turning traitor,
  • breakaway,
  • fail,
  • unrighteousness,
  • criminality,
  • reverse,
  • Improbity,
  • irreligious,
  • slip away,
  • die,
  • Reconversion,
  • ratting,
  • rollback,
  • of easy virtue,
  • give,
  • falling back,
  • vacillation,
  • Backset,
  • postlapsarian,
  • unrighteous,
  • going back,
  • happen,
  • pollution,
  • reflux,
  • retire,
  • retrograde motion,
  • go along,
  • get,
  • retrogressive,
  • wanton,
  • unchaste,
  • move,
  • frail,
  • glide by,
  • veering,
  • ungood,
  • slipping back,
  • impurity,
  • retrogressing,
  • dawdle,
  • turn,
  • atrocity,
  • blasphemous,
  • recidivate,
  • schism,
  • undutifulness,
  • wayward,
  • turnaround,
  • peccable,
  • regress,
  • knavery,
  • wrongdoing,
  • atheistic,
  • spend,
  • erring,
  • retroversion,
  • fallen,
  • retroflexion,
  • carnality,
  • oversight,
  • Sternway,
  • vanish,
  • impiousness,
  • debasement,
  • go backwards,
  • indecorum,
  • backing,
  • mistake,
  • ungodly,
  • demoralization,
  • fall,
  • delinquency,
  • fade,
  • Recrudescent,
  • disloyalty,
  • obliquity,
  • faithlessness,
  • Unchastity,
  • carnal,
  • secession,
  • backslider,
  • deteriorating,
  • Unsaintly,
  • error,
  • hardening,
  • failure,
  • declension,
  • coquetry,
  • fall back,
  • elapse,
  • Refluence,
  • lesbianism,
  • revolve,
  • recusancy,
  • Retrusion,
  • perish,
  • sinning,
  • infamy,
  • overtake,
  • scandal,
  • restitution,
  • irreverence,
  • recede,
  • devolve,
  • blunder,
  • setback,
  • unvirtuous,
  • atavism,
  • atheism,
  • revulsion,
  • bolt.

Paraphrases for Backsliding:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    re-offending, decline, reoffending, retreat, backspace, deterioration, recidivism, downturn, slowdown, recurrence.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    declining, retreating, Reversing.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    retrogression, relapse, regression, setback, backtracking, regress, reversal, slippage, kickback, climb-down, rollback, backlash, decrease.

Homophones for Backsliding:

• bobsledding.

Hypernym for Backsliding:

• n.

  • act
    recidivism.

Hyponym for Backsliding:

• n.

  • act
    failure.