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Noun
▲
A reversal of policy, attitude or principle
turnabout
turnaround
U-turn
volte-face
about-face
about-turn
shift
swing
backtracking
turnround
flip-flop
rowback
swerve
tergiversation
backpedallingUK
backpedalingUS
cancellationUK
cancelationUS
doubleback
reversion
sea change
switch
paradigm shift
change in direction
change of heart
change
retraction
turn
change of mind
reverse
contraposition
reconsideration
changeround
consideration
more ❯
“The reversal of a steady downward trend.”
Noun
▲
An adverse change of fortune
reverse
setback
failure
defeat
misfortune
upset
accident
blow
catastrophe
check
disaster
misadventure
mishap
non-success
tragedy
adversity
affliction
disappointment
failing
hardship
knock
lapse
loss
rout
vicissitude
breakdown
distress
downfall
frustration
tribulation
woe
bad luck
difficulty
hitch
ill luck
problem
snag
car crash
hard times
lack of success
destruction
curse
injury
ordeal
travail
curtains
end of the world
penury
plague
waterloo
death
damage
poverty
hurt
privation
annoyance
deprivation
want
need
extinction
infliction
beggary
Armageddon
worry
end
rotten luck
day of reckoning
detriment
evil
visitation
sadness
disturbance
nuisance
doom
nuclear holocaust
annihilation
straits
holy mess
unholy mess
letdown
convulsion
impoverishment
pileup
fender-bender
headache
doomsday
discomfort
end times
jolt
agony
insolvency
despair
unhappiness
struggle
pestilence
demise
termination
armageddon
retribution
pest
dolor
quietus
bankruptcy
fatality
perdition
cost
expiration
decease
passing
passage
grave
unpleasantness
exit
expiry
stack-up
total
wrack-up
nemesis
commotion
mishappening
tension
fate
sleep
dole
waste
collision
vexation
bother
persecution
irritation
decimation
austerity
debt
evil fortune
evil chance
carnage
wreckage
pauperdom
nightmare
grievance
albatross
great divide
lack
sad event
rack and ruin
Judgment Day
financial ruin
tough break
hard time
jar
dreadful thing
awful thing
terrible thing
awkward
ragnarok
judgement day
mutual assured destruction
World War III
decay
abyss
devastating blow
contingency
worst
punishment
flooding
load
casus
befalling
bad thing
difficulties
wrong
finish
mislaying
tumult
worst case
rear ender
spectacle
squalor
botched situation
throe
menace
vengeance
penalty
sentence
worst outcome
misplacing
boo-boo
offenseUS
prejudice
offenceUK
ill-treatment
disservice
Cancer
hydra
magic
spell
incident
fuss
severe test
trying time
sordidness
unluckiness
bête noire
ticklish spot
anguish
business
circumstance
occasion
adventure
row
scene
melodrama
affair
worst that could happen
humiliation
lot
rear-ender
fluke
gloom
thrill
fracas
sensation
excitement
blessing
benefit
bête noir
losing
dispossession
forfeiture
necessity
disbenefit
mischief
worst possible outcome
worst comes to worst
unluck
anxiety
indebtedness
liquidation
oppression
dejection
bad trot
neediness
urgent situation
to-do
impecuniousness
impecuniosity
crossroad
squeeze
compulsion
desperate straits
push
climax
unforeseen circumstances
bad fortune
melancholy
despondency
trials
tear-jerker
alluvion
culmination
finale
upshot
denouement
fatal attraction
shrinkage
bereavement
retardation
debit
squandering
depletion
deficiency
impairment
sacrifice
disappearance
toil
peril
laborUS
drudgery
panic stations
excruciation
sorriness
rack
dolefulness
grievous blow
fatigue
labourUK
Apocalypse
Final Judgment
turning point
Chapter 11
administration
receivership
serious accident
misplacement
grieving
lamentation
bemoaning
rue
blues
deploring
care
rain
regret
financial distress
uphill battle
Herculean task
rainy day
destituteness
unfortunate occurrence
bad trip
bombshell
surprise
economic failure
thunderbolt
mendicity
pauperism
disgruntlement
shame
let-down
sin
crime
despoliation
financial failure
terrible fate
grim fate
slaughter
demolition
ravages
wastage
mincemeat
extermination
obliteration
depredation
demolishment
Ragnarok
conflagration
eschaton
rude awakening
source of distress
ravagement
despoiling
vandalism
plunder
dilapidation
bolt from the blue
bolt out of the blue
disgrace
crying shame
cause for regret
cause for disappointment
sad thing
pity
source of regret
sad situation
unfortunate thing
prang
smash-up
road traffic accident
car accident
multiple collision
traffic accident
RTA
pile-up
road accident
multiple crash
more ❯
“Townsley's goal and then Ged Brannan's penalty, two minutes into injury time, represented a dramatic reversal for an unfortunate Dunfermline side.”
Noun
▲
A swap or change of one thing for another
change
swap
exchange
swapping
trading
transposition
interchange
inversion
trade
switch
substitution
switching
replacement
replacing
reordering
rearrangement
trade-off
changeover
barter
truck
renewal
dicker
commutation
conversion
transaction
trafficking
quid pro quo
tradeoff
reconstitution
reinstatement
transfer
bartering
deal
sale
shift
bargain
substitute
revision
supplanting
transposing
shuffle
shuffling
supplantment
commerce
dealing
business
negotiation
haggling
swop
buying and selling
back-and-forth
bandying
traffic
networking
give and take
give-and-take
trade off
“In a role reversal, the subject moves out of the role they are playing to briefly exchange roles with another during an enactment.”
Noun
▲
A change to an opposite direction, position, or course of action
overturning
undoing
overruling
repeal
abrogation
alteration
changing
countermanding
quashing
rescinding
revocation
upsetting
veto
change
disallowing
overriding
overthrow
repudiation
vetoing
annulment
cancelationUS
cancellationUK
invalidation
negation
nullification
rescindment
retraction
setting aside
voiding
withdrawal
disannulment
recall
recanting
rescission
eradication
destruction
end
extirpation
suppression
subversion
wiping out
erasure
expunction
rebuttal
refuting
disproving
disclaiming
countering
extermination
extinction
discrediting
disproval
extinguishment
stamping out
effacement
doing away with
scrubbing
junking
excising
remission
annulling
closure
blotting out
closing down
more ❯
“A striking reversal of policy.”
Noun
▲
The act or process of being transformed into a different form
transmogrification
transformation
metamorphosis
modification
variation
transfiguration
conversion
transmutation
changeover
mutation
shift
development
innovation
revision
switch
permutation
reconstruction
adjustment
revolution
novelty
transition
translation
advance
difference
refinement
turnover
correction
vicissitude
addition
tempering
turn
modulation
remodellingUK
remodelingUS
break
diversification
variance
compression
contraction
distortion
diversity
surrogate
variety
transubstantiation
about-face
improvement
rehabilitation
revise
review
redesign
tailoring
rectification
redevelopment
reform
customizationUS
refitting
customisationUK
amelioration
rise
betterment
transfigurement
advancement
evolvement
converting
fixing
enhancement
customizingUS
newfangledness
innovativeness
specializationUS
customisingUK
specialisationUK
shifting
acclimation
restriction
shuffle
relocation
redecoration
refurnishing
refurbishing
rehab
restoration
adoption
switch-over
accommodation
revamp
redesigning
adaption
recomposing
rearranging
reorganizingUS
remake
reorienting
reorganisingUK
alterations
upgrading
reconfiguration
switches
shifts
reformations
amendments
transitions
revisions
augmentation
promotion
embellishment
permutations
advances
metamorphoses
morph
enrichment
melioration
refinements
makeovers
rearrangements
remodelings
corrections
expansion
boost
modifying
readjustments
rejiggings
sea changes
realignments
reorganizationsUS
changes
remakings
turns
transubstantiations
improvements
reorganisationsUK
remoldings
unfolding
upgrade
change for the better
regulating
regulation
extension
complete change
repair
blossoming
emergence
maturing
unravelingUS
burgeoning
flourishing
maturity
elaboration
setting
ordering
refining
mending
arrangement
correcting
buildup
fruition
furtherance
flowering
evolving
advancing
growing
maturation
blooming
tuning
amending
overhauling
rectifying
ripening
unravellingUK
unrolling
enlargement
working out
coming-of-age
tweaking
jiggering
twiddling
redress
patching up
conformance
shaping
organisationUK
standardizationUS
standardisationUK
organizationUS
organizingUS
fine-tuning
repairing
organisingUK
orientation
balancing
fitting
more ❯
Noun
▲
The act or state of being turned over or upside-down
overturn
inversion
capsizal
turning upside down
Noun
▲
An unsuccessful outcome of something planned
miscarriage
failure
breakdown
undoing
thwarting
error
foundering
mismanagement
perversion
botch
collapse
frustration
mishap
ruin
ruination
setback
unsuccessfulness
aborting
mischance
misfire
misfiring
miss
non-fulfilment
nonsuccess
abortion
blunder
debacle
defeat
insufficiency
interruption
lapse
malfunction
misadventure
miscarriages
mistake
spontaneous abortion
still birth
crash
flop
fall
lack of success
disintegration
fizzle
decline
failing
termination
shutdown
fizzling out
breaking down
bankruptcy
folding
disruption
halt
cessation
stoppage
nonachievement
cropper
coming to nothing
falling through
loss
slump
deterioration
degradation
disorganizationUS
rupture
seizure
disorganisationUK
fail
bust
flameout
crumbling
crumpling
falling apart
non-function
non-success
falling down
falling to pieces
capitulation
disturbance
hitch
fall from grace
hindrance
impediment
crackup
seizing up
break
conking out
liquidation
insolvency
closure
comedown
descent
down
break-up
dissolution
closing
sinking
demise
disappointment
buckling
falling
depression
close-down
shutting down
going under
checkmate
devastation
winding up
bungle
clunker
discomfiture
hash
washout
nonperformance
bomb
mess
implosion
dud
clinker
misfortune
turkey
snafu
fiasco
rejection
disaster
bummer
false step
balls-up
let-down
foul-up
screw-up
more ❯
Noun
▲
A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
antithesis
opposite
reverse
converse
antipode
contrary
inverse
obverse
contrast
counter
negative
direct opposite
antipole
contra
contradictory
flip side
other extreme
exact opposite
other side
polar opposite
other side of the coin
contradiction
contrariety
antipodes
counterpole
contrapositive
witherward
per contra
contraposition
contrareity
more ❯
Noun
▲
The placing together of contrasting ideas or words to produce an effect of balance
antithesis
contradiction
opposition
contraposition
contrariety
contrast
inversion
antagonism
contradistinction
opposure
reverse
converse
opposite
antipode
contrareity
contrary
conversion
polarity
oppositeness
contrariness
conflict
clash
difference
disparity
duality
dichotomy
separation
paradox
contradictoriness
counterattack
con
engagement
confronting
negativism
disapproval
competition
schism
rivalry
aversion
division
split
warfare
action
defiance
antonymy
obstructiveness
prevention
struggle
brush
antinomy
contest
contention
resistance
divergence
fray
violation
repugnance
strife
defenceUK
combat
hostility
unfriendliness
defenseUS
duel
ambivalence
polarizationUS
counteraction
war
encounter
repulsion
oppugnancy
grapple
skirmish
polarisationUK
civil disobedience
Noun
▲
An unexpected result or situation, typically a win in a sporting match
upset
drubbing
rout
thrashing
toppling
trouncing
coup
feat
hammering
major defeat
surprise victory
unexpected result
master stroke
sudden change
tour de force
defeat
debacle
hiding
licking
pasting
beating
overthrow
annihilation
ruin
clobbering
shellacking
loss
massacre
whipping
demolition
slaughter
conquest
failure
fall
downfall
breakdown
subjugation
triumph
killing
whitewashing
nonsuccess
mastery
destruction
downthrow
defeasance
catastrophe
vanquishing
flop
crushing
routing
botch
lemon
dud
wreck
reverse
clinker
fizzle
fail
setback
hash
bust
bomb
miss
bummer
clunker
turkey
shipwreck
mess
extermination
blow
foul-up
repulse
lacing
scalping
rebuff
ambush
paddling
discomfiture
frost
screw-up
snafu
balls-up
KO
abortion
blunder
dissolution
subduing
clean sweep
count
check
insuccess
trap
break
whaling
car crash
victory
displacement
sweep
win
calamity
loser
subversion
bungle
misstep
misadventure
failing
walloping
grand slam
let-down
tragedy
nonachievement
nonperformance
implosion
false step
dead duck
damp squib
dead loss
faux pas
sinking ship
dusting
overpowering
conquering
wipeout
domination
subjugating
suppression
dominating
defeating
whitewash
victory over
triumph over
trainwreck
crash
success
farce
misfortune
decisive victory
game, set and match
whammy
miscarriage
runaway victory
non-starter
lead balloon
no-hoper
train wreck
ending
decisive defeat
thumping
battering
waterloo
demise
break-up
flogging
mauling
smackdown
subjection
subjecting
murder
fizzer
score
subdual
splash
muck
omnishambles
muddle
bodge
cockup
screwup
pig's breakfast
letdown
route
one-horse race
bankruptcy
big win
dumb thing to do
error
game
frustration
trouble
mishap
total loss
stalemate
vain attempt
flash in the pan
cropper
superiority
advantage
overwhelming majority
besting
worsting
pulverizingUS
thwarting
quelling
flattening
quashing
undoing
ousting
squashing
takeover
overcoming
elimination
breaking
extinction
pulverisingUK
foil
unseating
end
deposition
pwnage
ownage
win over
success over
removal
glory over
supremacy over
disestablishment
supplanting
dethronement
dispossession
defenestration
removal from office
removal from power
disintegration
crack-up
havoc
smash
ruination
smashup
devastation
blue ruin
more ❯
Noun
▲
A reduction of some sort in an existing program
cutback
cut
reduction
decrease
economy
retrenchment
lessening
trimming
abatement
belt-tightening
curtailment
decline
decrement
downturn
drop
falloff
lowering
phasedown
rollback
saving
slash
salami slicing
diminution
contraction
fall
diminishment
loss
shrinkage
drop-off
depletion
decrescence
letting up
degeneration
recession
plummet
decadence
retrogression
devolution
sinking
declension
decay
regression
nose dive
degeneracy
worsening
relapse
backsliding
pitch
spill
stumble
flop
jump
belly flop
trough
slant
declivity
failure
skid
trip
declination
header
topple
impoverishment
subsiding
comedown
deflation
slope
retrogradation
swoop
eclipse
recidivism
roll
abasement
fading
decaying
flip
cropper
enfeeblement
debilitation
nose-dive
disintegration
ruin
dropping off
atrophy
deficiency
sweep
free fall
demolition
hang
skydive
bad times
bottom-out
falling
sinkage
basin
cant
sink
concavity
impairment
corrosion
slipping
hollow
vitiation
withering
backslide
sinkhole
corruption
spoiling
recidivation
shrinking
falling-off
dissipation
failing
adulteration
falling away
breakdown
drain
ruination
rotting
erosion
plump
dilapidation
duck
letdown
disrepair
submersion
submergence
dying away
petering out
shakeout
dying out
demise
wipeout
bust
dissolution
rainy days
stagflation
easing off
anticlimax
economic decline
credit squeeze
hard times
credit crunch
downward spiral
difference
aggravation
confusion
turmoil
chaos
sharp fall
reoffending
repetition
habit
reoffense
tendency
dereliction
receding
disappearance
going down
coming down
tainting
pounce
rush
misstep
incline
pratfall
deprivation
bellyflop
reversion
ruining
harm
rot
destroying
spoliation
minus
standstill
dropoff
privation
plummeting
free-fall
ducking
downhill
pit
slackness
droop
forfeiture
squandering
paralysis
dimple
hanging
dégringolade
downward slope
lunge
stoop
shortfall
retreat
flameout
toss
hole
indentation
return
Black Monday
rainy day
false step
cave-in
dislocation
perversion
degringolade
meltdown
reverse
list
tilt
settling
distortion
fall from grace
fade
cessation
pathos
discomfiture
cadence
downcome
flagging
steep fall
header headlong jump
expenditure
consumption
exhaustion
falling apart
desisting
relenting
dropping away
waste
rise and fall
bottom out
downhill trend
downer
blight
dumps
rut
funk
low
bottom
headlong fall
devaluing
using up
use
expending
cooling off
tailing off
cheapening
want
fading away
downgrading
gradient
tapering off
emptying
milking
draining
decrease in value
lowering in value
scarp
hill
backflow
withdrawal
refluence
reflux
retroflux
bleeding
reduction in value
blue devils
bad period
blue funk
the skids
accounting allowance
loss of value
bankruptcy
inflation
unemployment
adret
bajada
versant
escarpment
destruction
running down
devastation
low tide
low water
outward flow
big trouble
obliteration
trail
bend
track
immersion
decimation
demolishment
investment
venture
dunk
spree
decrepitude
desolation
damage
extinction
wastage
extermination
annihilation
bathos
disappointment
havoc
end
overthrow
crumbling
death
labefaction
subversion
high dive
break-up
falling to pieces
non-event
disillusionment
let-down
washout
damp squib
not what it was cracked up to be
ineffective conclusion
more ❯
Noun
▲
Highs and lows
ups and downs
chanciness
changeability
fickleness
fluctuation
inconstancy
instability
uncertainties
unpredictability
vacillation
variability
vicissitudes
alteration
changes
downturn
reverse
ebb and flow
peaks and valleys
systole and diastole
wax and wane
good and bad times
uncertainty
vicissitude
life's ups and downs
Noun
▲
Reversal
reversion
decline
degeneration
deterioration
inversion
retreat
return
reversing
rotation
Noun
▲
A feeling of disappointment or depression
comedown
anticlimax
bathos
disappointment
disillusionment
let-down
decline
deflation
setback
washout
letdown
non-event
drop
descent
slump
damp squib
ineffective conclusion
not what it was cracked up to be
Noun
▲
An expression of unwillingness to accept or grant an offer or request
refusal
no
rebuff
turndown
denial
knock-back
negation
rejection
dissent
declination
defiance
demurral
disallowance
nay
nonacceptance
non-acceptance
regrets
brush-off
declinature
repudiation
abnegation
ban
declension
disapproval
disavowal
disclaimer
discountenancing
disfavourUK
disfavorUS
enjoinment
exclusion
forbidding
interdiction
knockback
nix
noncompliance
nonconsent
pass
prohibition
proscription
rebuttal
refutation
renouncement
renunciation
repulse
repulsion
snub
thumbs down
writ
cold shoulder
negative response
kick in the teeth
dismissal
spurning
abandonment
relinquishment
abjuration
surrender
slight
giving up
negative
declining
eschewal
abdication
cold-shouldering
disowning
waiver
sacrifice
abstention
cut
non placet
resignation
discouragement
remission
turning down
self-denial
silent treatment
yielding
forswearing
retraction
refutal
nothing doing
the old heave-ho
casting aside
slap in the face
cancelationUS
smack in the eye
smack in the face
cancellationUK
red light
kiss-off
release
avoidance
denunciation
disaffirmation
forgoing
waiving
go-by
quitclaim
bum's rush
casting off
hard time
demission
no dice
no go
no way
eschewing
repeal
forbearing
self-sacrifice
self-abnegation
lack of acceptance
elbow
pooh-poohing
objection
against
snubbing
unacceptance
dissension
resistance
contradictoriness
dissatisfaction
ostracism
failure
disappointment
disgorgement
signing away
recusancy
contrariness
dismissing
renegement
rejecting
disclaiming
repudiating
negativity
disproof
counterstatement
check
defeat
confutation
adjuration
retractation
setting aside
dispensation
deferral
refusing
refraining
disacknowledgement
controversion
put-down
reprimand
putdown
insult
rebuke
statement abnegation
refusal to acknowledge
bounce
elimination
foregoing
postponement
tabling
loss
reservation
forbearance
kick in teeth
nixing
refrainment
stonewall
more ❯
Noun
▲
A change of direction when moving
turn
veer
detour
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