DEVELOPMENT Antonyms

• a failure to maintain a higher state

• the process of gradually becoming inferior

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• the organic phenomenon of rotting

• an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying

• the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation

• lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

• fall into decay or ruin

• undergo decay or decomposition

• change toward something smaller or lower

• a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• a downward slope or bend

• grow worse

• not accept as true

• show unwillingness towards

• grow smaller

• go down

• fall in value

• inflect for number, gender, case, etc.

• the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

• the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

• passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

• a symptom of reduced quality or strength

• process of changing to an inferior state

• in a decomposed state

• a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system

• separation into component parts

• the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation

• total destruction

• the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year

• a small concavity

• the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service

• the act of ceding back

• the act of becoming more distant

• an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

• the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)

• returning to a former state

• a failure to maintain a higher state

• deteriorate in health

• go back to bad behavior

• passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

• returning to a former state

• a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part

• translation back into the original language

• returning to a former state

• a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)

• inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation

• becoming weaker

• the act of reducing the strength of something

• causing debilitation

• moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker

• Motion in a retrograde manner.

• Decline, degradation.

• A reaction that takes place in gelatinized starch when the amylose and amylopectin chains realign themselves, largely responsible for bread becoming stale.

• failure of normal development to occur