All meliorism antonyms

noun meliorism

• diminishing — Make or become less.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• stagnation — the state or condition of stagnating, or having stopped, as by ceasing to run or flow: Meteorologists forecast ozone and air stagnation.
• deterioration — the act or process of deteriorating.
• diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
• demotion — to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote): They demoted the careless waiter to busboy.
• damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
• harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• retrogression — the act of retrogressing; movement backward.