What are the antonyms for SETBACK?
- assistance, furtherance, peace, advance, boost, blessing, contentment, status quo, expedition, achievement, help, aid, success, boon, advantage.
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Synonyms for SETBACK
- stack-up,
- slack up,
- catastrophe,
- jolt,
- lacings,
- Extremities,
- cramp,
- retrogression,
- nadir,
- decrease,
- whole new ballgame,
- non-success,
- disincentive,
- turn for the worse,
- restrainers,
- occlusion,
- delay,
- architecture,
- foiling,
- suppression,
- Disincentives,
- unluck,
- fall,
- stroke of bad luck,
- licking,
- contretemps,
- hold-ups,
- Insuccess,
- rout,
- blockage,
- obstruction,
- spendings,
- Arrestment,
- discomfiture,
- verso,
- cash on barrelhead,
- fly in the ointment,
- atavism,
- inefficacy,
- Vertices,
- forlorn hope,
- misadventure,
- frustration,
- millstone,
- reversion,
- untowardness,
- decline,
- regression,
- bottom,
- bottom dollar,
- flip-flop,
- opposition,
- recidivism,
- something wrong,
- predicament,
- disappointment,
- Nonfulfillment,
- trouncings,
- erosion,
- retrograde,
- fell stroke,
- falling back,
- let,
- fizzle,
- regress,
- massacre,
- gasp,
- pant,
- blocking,
- Retrocession,
- kos,
- shrinkage,
- decrement,
- turn around,
- cunctation,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- waxings,
- trouble,
- pratfall,
- out lay,
- arm and a leg,
- bafflement,
- devil's own luck,
- nuisance value,
- crack-ups,
- detention,
- bath,
- blighted hope,
- set back,
- disenchantment,
- thunderbolts,
- backsliding,
- upset,
- recurrence,
- holdup,
- drag,
- policy change,
- subjugation,
- stranglehold,
- hazard,
- problem,
- foil,
- subjugations,
- roughs,
- Infelicities,
- infelicity,
- accident,
- backward deviation,
- deceleration,
- washout,
- forfeiture,
- Detainment,
- exhaustion,
- disaster,
- renewal,
- Tantalization,
- TODO,
- reversal of fortune,
- better,
- repulse,
- foot-dragging,
- blow,
- drawing board,
- visitation,
- letup,
- Hampering,
- defeat,
- turnabout,
- Backset,
- backward motion,
- descent,
- buffet,
- closing up,
- betrayed hope,
- outlay,
- Sternway,
- old one-two,
- dissipation,
- the knocks,
- Retrogradation,
- checkmate,
- rebuff,
- dissatisfaction,
- procrastination,
- hard luck,
- procrastinations,
- slackening,
- hard cheese,
- retroflexion,
- dispossession,
- outgo,
- stumbling stone,
- restraint,
- nonsuccess,
- logjam,
- prorogation,
- tease,
- Recidivation,
- ease up,
- lurch,
- expropriation,
- hold up,
- misfortune,
- mischance,
- Refluence,
- slump,
- return,
- rotten luck,
- restriction,
- glitch,
- flagging,
- throwback,
- Retroaction,
- check,
- penalty,
- reversal,
- Unluckiness,
- shellacking,
- logjams,
- cooling-off period,
- recrudescence,
- turnaround,
- knock,
- errors,
- arrest,
- rub,
- fiasco,
- prohibitions,
- drawback,
- hold-up,
- backward step,
- crack-up,
- black eye,
- contrary,
- lack of success,
- reflux,
- deflations,
- dash,
- pause,
- stack up,
- thrashing,
- shiner,
- surcease,
- crackups,
- confusion,
- negativism,
- bump,
- faux pas,
- rear-ender,
- relapse,
- Arrestation,
- fender-bender,
- slowup,
- constriction,
- calamity,
- quandary,
- Retardment,
- debit,
- about-face,
- misfire,
- recession,
- slowdown,
- lag,
- privation,
- failure,
- Vanquishment,
- Clogging,
- mishap,
- loss,
- casualty,
- comedown,
- balk,
- crackup,
- cropper,
- impediment,
- to do,
- bad break,
- snow,
- handicap,
- snag,
- depletion,
- opposite,
- hard time,
- up set,
- puff,
- letdown,
- pratfalls,
- discouragement,
- restrainer,
- Whaling,
- stone in one's path,
- obstacle,
- setback,
- obstructionism,
- Downs,
- Retrusion,
- gridlock,
- mirage,
- dashed hope,
- bombshells,
- blockade,
- down,
- slowing,
- tough break,
- closure,
- deflation,
- bringdown,
- inhibition,
- slow up,
- Outgoes,
- ill fortune,
- beating,
- squeeze,
- interruption,
- transposition,
- vicissitude,
- lapse,
- blasted expectation,
- difficulty,
- change of mind,
- disillusionment,
- hangup,
- hitch,
- bombshell,
- casuality,
- retardation,
- Holdback,
- hard times,
- ruin,
- complication,
- misfortunes,
- rollback,
- resistance,
- interference,
- pinnacle,
- road block,
- cross,
- ill luck,
- reverse,
- attrition,
- Downthrow,
- remotes,
- come to,
- fixation,
- ledge,
- ease off,
- lemon,
- adversity,
- cost,
- dead weight,
- stricture,
- wrack-up,
- croppers,
- ill-fortune,
- unfortunateness,
- reentry,
- disillusionments,
- miscarriage,
- demurral,
- repression,
- brake,
- gust,
- stumbling block,
- bolt from the blue,
- divestiture,
- Backwardation,
- expenditure,
- wrack up,
- reaction,
- adverse fate,
- the worst,
- inconvenience,
- extremity,
- deprivation,
- thunderbolt,
- mouse,
- blast,
- rear ender,
- unfulfillment,
- hiccup,
- bang,
- bad luck,
- barrier,
- embarrassment,
- showstopper,
- fender bender,
- dissolution,
- tough luck.
Usage Examples for SETBACK
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There was only one setback in Corrigan's medical career in Dublin. - "Makers of Modern Medicine" by James J. Walsh
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" 'While I'm ground like a toad that a- way beneath the harrow of this double setback of the drum an' Jule, thar's a circus shows up an' pitches its merry tent in Sni- a- bar. - "Wolfville Nights" by Alfred Lewis
