Synonyms for Lapse:

• n.

  •
  • aggravation,
  • contamination,
  • degradation,
  • descent,
  • perversion,
  • rot,
  • wreckage.
  •
  • better,
  • repetition,
  • terminate,
  • come to an end.
  •
  • abate,
  • bate,
  • break,
  • delay,
  • ease,
  • increase,
  • interlude,
  • intermission,
  • interruption,
  • interval,
  • moderate,
  • pause,
  • recess,
  • remit,
  • slack off,
  • slacken.
  •
  • disappear,
  • dissolve,
  • evaporate,
  • glide,
  • glissade,
  • go away,
  • move,
  • slither,
  • vanish.
  •
  • law,
  • run out.
  •act (noun)
  • oversight.
  •backsliding (noun)
  • decadence,
  • declension,
  • decline,
  • degeneration,
  • descent,
  • deterioration,
  • devolution,
  • drop,
  • fall,
  • recession,
  • regression,
  • relapse,
  • retrogression,
  • Retrogradation.
  •break in action (noun)
  • gap,
  • intermission,
  • interruption,
  • interval,
  • lacuna,
  • lull,
  • passage,
  • pause.
  •decrease (noun)
  • drop.
  •deterioration (noun)
  • descent.
  •error (noun)
  • flaw,
  • slipup.
  •failure (noun)
  • breakdown,
  • bust,
  • crash,
  • debacle,
  • default,
  • failure,
  • fiasco,
  • fizzle,
  • flop,
  • implosion,
  • infertility,
  • loss,
  • malfunction,
  • miss,
  • nonstarter,
  • nosedive,
  • skid,
  • tailspin,
  • wipeout,
  • meltdown.
  •feebleness (noun)
  • Caducity.
  •guilt (noun)
  • Malefaction.
  •inattention (noun)
  • absence,
  • aloofness,
  • apathy,
  • befuddlement,
  • carelessness,
  • detachment,
  • disinterestedness,
  • disregard,
  • distraction,
  • dreaminess,
  • forgetfulness,
  • heedlessness,
  • inadvertence,
  • inattention,
  • indifference,
  • negligence,
  • obliviousness,
  • oversight,
  • preoccupation,
  • thoughtlessness,
  • unconcern,
  • unconsciousness,
  • Incuriosity,
  • Inobservance,
  • absent-mindedness,
  • disregardfulness,
  • lack of interest.
  •indefinite duration (noun)
  • aeon,
  • age,
  • duration,
  • era,
  • eternity,
  • forever,
  • span,
  • time.
  •indiscretion (noun)
  • gaucherie.
  •lapse (noun)
  • backslide,
  • backsliding,
  • elapse,
  • fall back,
  • glide by,
  • go along,
  • lapsing,
  • oversight,
  • pass,
  • recidivate,
  • regress,
  • relapse,
  • relapsing,
  • retrogress,
  • reversion,
  • reverting,
  • sink,
  • slide by,
  • slip away,
  • slip by.
  •letup (noun)
  • let-up.
  •misconduct (noun)
  • delinquency.
  •mistake (noun)
  • blunder,
  • breach,
  • bungle,
  • crime,
  • error,
  • failing,
  • failure,
  • fault,
  • flub,
  • foible,
  • frailty,
  • gaff,
  • goof,
  • indiscretion,
  • miscue,
  • negligence,
  • offense,
  • omission,
  • oversight,
  • sin,
  • slip,
  • transgression,
  • trespass,
  • trip,
  • vice,
  • violation,
  • goof-up,
  • slip-up.
  •neglect (noun)
  • laxity,
  • laxness,
  • neglect,
  • neglectfulness.
  •relapse (noun)
  • recession,
  • recurrence,
  • regression,
  • Recidivation.
  •reversion (noun)
  • atavism,
  • regression,
  • throwback,
  • Retrogradation.
  •shortage (noun)
  • underage.
  •slip (noun)
  • error,
  • failure,
  • mistake.
  •weakness (noun)
  • weak point.

• v.

  •become void; fall back into previous pattern (verb)
  • apostatize,
  • backslide,
  • cease,
  • degenerate,
  • descend,
  • deteriorate,
  • die,
  • elapse,
  • end,
  • expire,
  • pass,
  • recede,
  • recidivate,
  • retrograde,
  • return,
  • revert,
  • run out,
  • slide,
  • subside,
  • terminate,
  • weaken,
  • become obsolete.
  •deteriorate (verb)
  • atrophy,
  • collapse,
  • decay,
  • decline,
  • degenerate,
  • deteriorate,
  • dilapidate,
  • downgrade,
  • ebb,
  • fade,
  • fall apart,
  • get worse,
  • moulder,
  • putrefy,
  • regress,
  • relapse,
  • retrogress,
  • revert,
  • sink,
  • slide,
  • slip,
  • slump,
  • tergiversate,
  • wane,
  • wilt,
  • wither,
  • worsen,
  • go downhill.
  •motion (verb)
  • pass,
  • sink.
  •relapse (verb)
  • backslide,
  • recede,
  • recur.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bate,
  • degradation,
  • error,
  • glissade,
  • misbehave,
  • miscue,
  • pause,
  • perversion,
  • recidivism,
  • rot.
  •
  • clear up,
  • contamination,
  • descent,
  • erratum,
  • fluff,
  • inaccuracy,
  • incorrectness,
  • misstep,
  • neglect,
  • weakness,
  • wreckage.
  •
  • aggravation,
  • break,
  • fault,
  • glide,
  • slacken,
  • stop,
  • trip.
  •
  • abate,
  • remit,
  • slither.
  •
  • mistake.
  •clear up
  • die away,
  • run its course.
  •culpability
  • guilt.
  •deteriorate
  • wear away.
  •deviation
  • aberration.
  •die
  • break down,
  • dilapidate,
  • go bad.
  •err
  • go wrong,
  • go astray.
  •fault
  • shortcoming.
  •glide
  • glissade.
  •mistake
  • blunder.
  •pass
  • go past,
  • take place.
  •regress
  • fall away,
  • fall back,
  • go back,
  • turn back.
  •relapse
  • recidivate,
  • be overcome,
  • be overtaken,
  • slide back,
  • slip back,
  • slipping back.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abandon,
  • abate,
  • aberration,
  • abeyance,
  • about-face,
  • advance,
  • aggravation,
  • alchemy,
  • allow,
  • apostasy,
  • apostatize,
  • arrest,
  • assimilation,
  • assumption,
  • astray,
  • atavism,
  • atheism,
  • atrocity,
  • authorise,
  • authorize,
  • awkwardly,
  • backing,
  • backsliding,
  • bad,
  • badly,
  • balk,
  • barbarism,
  • bate,
  • become,
  • becoming,
  • bestow,
  • better,
  • blend,
  • blinding,
  • bloomer,
  • blooper,
  • blot,
  • blow over,
  • blunder,
  • bobble,
  • boo-boo,
  • boob,
  • botch,
  • botch up,
  • breach,
  • break,
  • break down,
  • breakdown,
  • breather,
  • breathing space,
  • brick,
  • bull,
  • bungle,
  • bury,
  • bust,
  • cadence,
  • caesura,
  • catenary,
  • cave,
  • cave in,
  • cease,
  • cease-fire,
  • cessation,
  • change,
  • change over,
  • check,
  • chemistry,
  • choke,
  • clanger,
  • clear,
  • clear up,
  • clinker,
  • close,
  • closedown,
  • closing,
  • closure,
  • clumsily,
  • come,
  • come about,
  • come back,
  • come down,
  • come short,
  • come to,
  • comedown,
  • communicate,
  • conclude,
  • conclusion,
  • conk,
  • contamination,
  • contract,
  • conversion,
  • course,
  • crash,
  • crime,
  • croak,
  • cropper,
  • crumble,
  • culpable negligence,
  • cutoff,
  • dawdle,
  • day off,
  • deadly sin,
  • debacle,
  • debasement,
  • decadence,
  • decadency,
  • decease,
  • deceleration,
  • declension,
  • declination,
  • decrease,
  • decrescendo,
  • default,
  • defect,
  • defective,
  • deficient,
  • deformation,
  • degeneracy,
  • degeneration,
  • degradation,
  • delay,
  • delinquency,
  • delusion,
  • demotion,
  • depart,
  • depreciation,
  • dereliction,
  • derogation,
  • descend,
  • descent,
  • desertion,
  • deterioration,
  • determine,
  • deviate,
  • deviation,
  • devolution,
  • devolve,
  • die,
  • die away,
  • digress,
  • diminish,
  • diminuendo,
  • diminution,
  • dip,
  • disappear,
  • discontinuance,
  • discontinuation,
  • discontinue,
  • discontinuity,
  • disenchantment,
  • dishonour,
  • disloyal,
  • disobedience,
  • disobey,
  • dissolve,
  • distance,
  • divagate,
  • dive,
  • down,
  • downfall,
  • downturn,
  • draw,
  • drift,
  • droop,
  • drop,
  • drop away,
  • drop down,
  • dry,
  • dully,
  • dwindling,
  • dying,
  • ease,
  • egest,
  • elapse,
  • elapsed,
  • eliminate,
  • end,
  • ending,
  • endure,
  • enormity,
  • entr'acte,
  • err,
  • erratum,
  • erring,
  • erroneous,
  • error,
  • escheat,
  • evanesce,
  • evaporate,
  • evil,
  • exceed,
  • excrete,
  • exit,
  • expand,
  • expiration,
  • expire,
  • expiry,
  • extend,
  • extent,
  • fading,
  • fail,
  • failing,
  • failure,
  • fall,
  • fall away,
  • fall back,
  • fall behind,
  • fall down,
  • fall into,
  • fall off,
  • fall short,
  • falling,
  • falling off,
  • false,
  • falter,
  • far,
  • fate,
  • fault,
  • faulty,
  • faux pas,
  • felony,
  • fiasco,
  • finish,
  • fizzle,
  • flaw,
  • fleet,
  • flip-flop,
  • flit,
  • flop,
  • flow,
  • flub,
  • fluff,
  • flump,
  • flump down,
  • flux,
  • fly,
  • foible,
  • forfeiture,
  • forgo,
  • founder,
  • frailty,
  • Freudian Slip,
  • fumble,
  • gaff,
  • gaffe,
  • gap,
  • gaucherie,
  • genocide,
  • get,
  • get back,
  • get behind,
  • give,
  • give way,
  • glide,
  • glide by,
  • glissade,
  • gloss over,
  • go,
  • go across,
  • go along,
  • go away,
  • go back,
  • go bad,
  • go down,
  • go off,
  • go on,
  • go past,
  • go through,
  • go under,
  • go wrong,
  • goof,
  • grow,
  • growth,
  • guide,
  • guilt,
  • halt,
  • hand,
  • hap,
  • happen,
  • hesitation,
  • hiatus,
  • hold,
  • hold up,
  • holiday,
  • homestretch,
  • howler,
  • ignore,
  • illegitimate,
  • illicit,
  • imperfection,
  • impiety,
  • impiousness,
  • implosion,
  • imprecise,
  • improper,
  • impropriety,
  • inaccuracy,
  • inaccurate,
  • inaction,
  • inadvertency,
  • inanely,
  • inappropriate,
  • incongruity,
  • inconsistency,
  • incorrect,
  • incorrectness,
  • increase,
  • indecent,
  • indiscretion,
  • inelegantly,
  • ineptly,
  • inexact,
  • infertility,
  • infraction,
  • infringement,
  • iniquity,
  • injury,
  • injustice,
  • insensitively,
  • interim,
  • interlude,
  • intermezzo,
  • intermission,
  • intermittence,
  • interruption,
  • interval,
  • involution,
  • irreligion,
  • irreverence,
  • jerk,
  • journey,
  • keep,
  • knock,
  • lacuna,
  • lag,
  • lapsed,
  • lapsing,
  • last,
  • law,
  • laxity,
  • laxness,
  • layoff,
  • lead,
  • leave,
  • legislate,
  • let go,
  • letup,
  • looseness,
  • lose,
  • loss,
  • lour,
  • lower,
  • lowering,
  • lull,
  • lurch,
  • make it,
  • make pass,
  • maladroitly,
  • malfeasance,
  • malfunction,
  • malpractice,
  • mature,
  • mellow,
  • melt,
  • merge,
  • misadventure,
  • misbehave,
  • misbehavior,
  • misbehaviour,
  • miscalculate,
  • misconduct,
  • miscue,
  • misdeed,
  • misdemeanor,
  • misdemeanour,
  • misdo,
  • misfeasance,
  • miss,
  • misstep,
  • mistake,
  • moderate,
  • molder,
  • moratorium,
  • mortal sin,
  • move,
  • naturalization,
  • neglect,
  • neglectfulness,
  • nod,
  • nonfeasance,
  • noninterference,
  • nonperformance,
  • nonslip,
  • nonstarter,
  • nosedive,
  • obtusely,
  • occur,
  • off,
  • offence,
  • offend,
  • offense,
  • offset,
  • omission,
  • opportunity,
  • outrage,
  • overhaul,
  • overlook,
  • overlooking,
  • overstep,
  • overtake,
  • pass,
  • pass away,
  • pass by,
  • pass off,
  • pass on,
  • pass over,
  • passage,
  • pause,
  • peccadillo,
  • perdition,
  • perish,
  • permissiveness,
  • perversion,
  • play along,
  • plop,
  • plummet,
  • plump,
  • plunge,
  • present,
  • press on,
  • proceed,
  • procrastination,
  • progress,
  • pull back,
  • put across,
  • quit,
  • rankle,
  • re-formation,
  • reach,
  • reaction,
  • recess,
  • recidivate,
  • recidivism,
  • reclamation,
  • recrudescence,
  • reduction,
  • reentry,
  • reflux,
  • regressing,
  • rehabilitation,
  • reinstatement,
  • relapsing,
  • remission,
  • remissness,
  • remit,
  • renewal,
  • repetition,
  • resolution,
  • resort,
  • respite,
  • rest,
  • restitution,
  • restoration,
  • retire,
  • retreat,
  • retroflex,
  • retroflexion,
  • retrograde,
  • retrogression,
  • retroversion,
  • retrovert,
  • return,
  • returning,
  • reversal,
  • reverse,
  • reversion,
  • reverting,
  • revulsion,
  • ridiculously,
  • rollback,
  • rot,
  • run,
  • run into,
  • run out,
  • rust,
  • rusticity,
  • sag,
  • scantiness,
  • screw up,
  • set,
  • setback,
  • settle,
  • settle down,
  • shake,
  • shift,
  • shortage,
  • shortcoming,
  • shrivel,
  • shutdown,
  • sin,
  • skid,
  • slack off,
  • slacken,
  • slackness,
  • sleep,
  • slide by,
  • slide down,
  • slight,
  • slip away,
  • slip by,
  • slippage,
  • slither,
  • slouch,
  • slowdown,
  • sneak away,
  • sneak off,
  • sneak out,
  • solecism,
  • space,
  • spell,
  • spend,
  • sphacelate,
  • start,
  • stay,
  • steal away,
  • stop,
  • stoppage,
  • stray,
  • stretch,
  • stumble,
  • stupidly,
  • submerge,
  • submergence,
  • subside,
  • subsidence,
  • superintendence,
  • supervising,
  • supervision,
  • surcease,
  • surpass,
  • suspense,
  • suspension,
  • swag,
  • switch,
  • switch over,
  • tactlessly,
  • tailspin,
  • take for granted,
  • take place,
  • terminate,
  • termination,
  • throwback,
  • tilt,
  • top,
  • tort,
  • totter,
  • transcend,
  • transformation,
  • transgress,
  • transgression,
  • transit,
  • transition,
  • travel by,
  • trespass,
  • trip,
  • truce,
  • tumble,
  • turn,
  • turn back,
  • turn over,
  • turn to,
  • turnabout,
  • turnaround,
  • underage,
  • undutifulness,
  • unfaithful,
  • unsuitable,
  • unthinkingly,
  • untrue,
  • untruthful,
  • vacation,
  • vanish,
  • venial sin,
  • vice,
  • vicious,
  • violation,
  • volte-face,
  • wait,
  • waive,
  • wander,
  • wax,
  • weak point,
  • weaken,
  • weakness,
  • wear away,
  • wear off,
  • wear on,
  • while,
  • widely,
  • wreckage,
  • wrong,
  • wrongdoing,
  • Arrestment,
  • Backset,
  • Blunderingly,
  • Caducity,
  • Decurrence,
  • Degenerateness,
  • Deperdition,
  • Depravation,
  • Depravedness,
  • Descension,
  • Ebb tide,
  • Illapse,
  • Laches,
  • Lapsable,
  • Malefaction,
  • Malum,
  • Misdoing,
  • Misusage,
  • Peccancy,
  • Reconversion,
  • Recreancy,
  • Refluence,
  • Retroaction,
  • Retrocede,
  • Retrocession,
  • Retrogradation,
  • Retrusion,
  • Titubation,
  • stand-down,
  • wipeout,
  • screwup,
  • meltdown,
  • fall from grace,
  • Culpa,
  • Sternway,
  • Sweal,
  • obliviously,
  • do wrong,
  • retrogressing,
  • crassly,
  • return to,
  • reoccur,
  • downtrend,
  • shutoff,
  • forget oneself,
  • go behind,
  • go beyond,
  • spring a leak,
  • turn into,
  • waste time,
  • slipup,
  • bad break,
  • capital crime,
  • false move,
  • grow into,
  • plop down,
  • settle into,
  • crack,
  • Non-fulfilment,
  • Non-performance,
  • falling back,
  • effeteness,
  • boner,
  • cock,
  • go astray,
  • come to an end,
  • let slip,
  • go amiss,
  • be gone,
  • be no more,
  • become extinct,
  • not heed,
  • make a mistake,
  • going back,
  • be lost,
  • pass into,
  • go back to,
  • recur to,
  • have it,
  • not care for,
  • decline and fall,
  • be overcome,
  • misconduct oneself,
  • misdemean oneself,
  • develop into,
  • revert to,
  • lose sight of,
  • do amiss,
  • lose ground,
  • be inactive,
  • let ride,
  • be negligent,
  • be overtaken,
  • become obsolete,
  • let-up,
  • commit sin,
  • delictum,
  • draw to a close,
  • emerge as,
  • go backwards,
  • go to seed,
  • go-by,
  • goof-up,
  • hit rock bottom,
  • hit the skids,
  • laissez faire,
  • last stage,
  • let slide,
  • lose track of,
  • open into,
  • sinkage,
  • ripen into,
  • roll on,
  • run its course,
  • short memory,
  • slide back,
  • slip back,
  • slip-up,
  • slipping back,
  • touch bottom,
  • turning into,
  • wind-up,
  • false step,
  • unutterable sin,
  • crime against humanity,
  • nonrestriction,
  • drop dead,
  • lapsus linguae,
  • minor wrong,
  • lapse of time,
  • lapsus,
  • go awry,
  • human error,
  • catabasis,
  • sin of omission.

Antonyms for Lapse:

• n.

  • backsliding
    ascent, improvement, increase, rise.
  • break in action
    continuation.
  • mistake
    accuracy, achievement, advantage, behavior, care, continuity, correction, kindness, obedience, perfection, progress, remembrance, right, strength, success.
  • Other antonyms:
    accuracy, continuance, continuation, correctness, exactitude, exactness, extension, inerrancy, infallibility, perfection, persistence, preciseness, precision, prolongation, status quo, strictness.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    accept, accuracy, achievement, advantage, ascent, begin, behavior, care, commence, continuance, continuation, continue, continuity, correction, correctness, develop, draw out, exactitude, exactness, extend, extension, go on, grow, improve, improvement, increase, inerrancy, infallibility, initiate, perfection, persist, persistence, preciseness, precision, progress, prolong, prolongation, protract, remembrance, renew, restart, right, rise, start, status quo, strength, strengthen, strictness, success, start up, get better.

• v.

  • become void; fall back into previous pattern
    accept, begin, commence, continue, develop, go on, grow, improve, initiate, live, restart, start, take, get better.