GENTRIFICATION Antonyms

• 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.

• a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning

• a symptom of reduced quality or strength

• process of changing to an inferior state

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

• the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government)

• a state of deterioration due to old age or long use

• the process of becoming dilapidated

• in need of repairs; in need of repair

• failure that results in a loss of position or reputation

• the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)

• a sudden decline in strength or number or importance

• the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

• the act of making someone poor

• 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

• passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

• returning to a former state

• any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

• making light of

• the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends

• rate lower; lower in value or esteem

• make poor

• take away