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backsliding

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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • /ˈbæks.ˌlaɪd.ɪŋ/
    • /ˈbæk.slaɪd.ɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • /ˈbæks.ˌlaɪd.ɪŋ/

Definitions of backsliding word

  • uncountable noun backsliding If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing. 3
  • noun backsliding a return to former bad habits or vices from a state of virtue 3
  • noun backsliding Present participle of backslide. 1
  • noun backsliding An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense. 0
  • adjective backsliding sliding back. 0

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Parts of speech for Backsliding

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backsliding popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 55% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for backsliding

adjective backsliding

  • untraditional — of or relating to tradition.
  • renegade — a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
  • regressive — regressing or tending to regress; retrogressive.

noun backsliding

  • relapse — to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
  • backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
  • lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
  • regression — the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
  • reversion — the act of turning something the reverse way.

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