DIORTHOSIS Antonyms

• an exasperated feeling of annoyance

• unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment

• action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse

• 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.

• changing to a lower state (a less respected state)

• a low or downcast state

• a symptom of reduced quality or strength

• process of changing to an inferior state

• a change for the better; progress in development

• the act of improving something

• a condition superior to an earlier condition

• 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

• an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating

• changing for the worse

• process of changing to an inferior state

• changing something with the result that it becomes worse