comedown

comedown
Synonyms and related words:
abasement, anticlimax, backset, bafflement, balk, bathos, belittling, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, breakdown, buffet, cascade, cataract, check, chute, collapse, contempt, crash, cropper, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, debacle, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, decrial, defeat, deflation, defluxion, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descending, descension, descent, deterioration, detraction, devolution, disappointment, disapproval, discomfiture, discrediting, disgrace, disillusionment, disparagement, dissatisfaction, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dropping, dump, dying, ebb, effeteness, embarrassment, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, faint praise, fall, fallen countenance, falling, falling-off, fiasco, fizzle, foiling, forlorn hope, frustration, gravitation, hangdog look, hope deferred, humbled pride, humiliation, inclination, indignity, involution, knocking, lapse, letdown, loss of tone, lukewarm support, minimizing, mirage, mortification, nose dive, plummeting, pounce, pratfall, put-down, putting down, rapids, regression, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune, ruin, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setback, setdown, severe check, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, slighting, slippage, slump, smash, sore disappointment, sour grapes, stoop, stumble, swoop, tailspin, tantalization, tease, throwback, tumble, undoing, wane, waterfall, wreck

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