Definition for Lapse:

• To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; mostly restricted to figurative uses.

Synonyms for Lapse:

• n.

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

• v.

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

• Other synonyms:

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

Antonyms for Lapse:

• n.

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

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    accept, accuracy, achievement, advantage, ascent, begin, behavior, care, commence, continuance, continuation, continuity, correction, correctness, draw out, exactitude, exactness, extend, extension, go on, improve, increase, inerrancy, infallibility, initiate, perfection, persist, persistence, preciseness, precision, 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
    restart, take, continue, get better, develop, start, improve, begin, go on, live, grow, commence, initiate, accept.