Antonyms for advancement
ædˈvæns mənt, -ˈvɑns-ad·vance·ment

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1. advancement

   Progress (Latin pro, forward, gradior, go) is a moving onward or forward, whether in space or in the mental or moral realm, and may be either mechanical, individual, or social. Attainment, development, and proficiency are more absolute than the other words of the group, denoting some point of advantage or of comparative perfection reached by forward or onward movement; we speak of attainments in virtue or scholarship, proficiency in music or languages, the development of new powers or organs; proficiency includes the idea of skill. Advance may denote either a forward movement or the point gained by forward movement, but always relatively with reference to the point from which the movement started; as, this is a great advance. Advance admits the possibility of retreat; progress (Latin progredi, to walk forward) is steady and constant forward movement, admitting of pause, but not of retreat; advance suggests more clearly a point to be reached, while progress lays the emphasis upon the forward movement; we may speak of slow or rapid progress, but more naturally of swift advance. Progress is more frequently used of abstractions; as, the progress of ideas; progression fixes the attention chiefly upon the act of moving forward. In a thing good in itself all advance or progress is improvement; there is a growing tendency to restrict the words to this favorable sense, using increase indifferently of good or evil; one may say without limitation, "I am an advocate of progress."

   Antonyms:
   check, decline, delay, falling back, falling off, relapse, retrogression, stay, stop, stoppage

   Synonyms:
   advance, attainment, development, growth, improvement, increase, proficiency, progress, progression

   Preposition:
   The progress of truth; progress in virtue; toward perfection; from a lower to a higher state.

Matched Categories

1. • Development
   • Encouragement

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. promotion, furtherance, advancementnoun

   encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

   Synonyms:
   promotional material, forwarding, furtherance, procession, packaging, progress, promotion, advance, publicity, onward motion, progression, forward motion

2. progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motionnoun

   the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

   Synonyms:
   rise, forward motion, emanation, cash advance, progress, feeler, patterned advance, progression, improvement, approach, furtherance, advance, procession, betterment, overture, onward motion, promotion

3. advancement, progressnoun

   gradual improvement or growth or development

   "advancement of knowledge"; "great progress in the arts"

   Synonyms:
   progress, procession, furtherance, promotion, advance, progression, onward motion, forward motion

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1. advancementnoun

   Synonyms:
   progress, progression, promotion, preferment, exaltation, aggrandizement, furtherance

How to use advancement in a sentence?

1. Daniel Kurtzer:

   People whose lives are getting worse, who may not have any pathways to economic advancement.

2. Justice William O. Douglas:

   Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

3. Chuck Schumer:

   Just a few days removed from what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 93rd birthday, the Senate has begun the debate on the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act for the first time in this Congress.

4. Jeff Bezos:

   An even more stark example is Facebook. Heres a guy who literally, in his dorm room, started a company Mark Zuckerberg started a company in his dorm room, which is now worth half a trillion dollars less than two decades ago, how do you get that kind of entrepreneurial [advancement] in space? You need to lower the price of admission right now to do anything interesting in space because it requires so much heavy lifting and so much infrastructure development.

5. Morgan Freeman:

   I am devastated that 80 years of my life is at risk of being undermined, in the blink of an eye, by Thursday's media reports, but I also want to be clear: I did not create unsafe work environments. I did not assault women. I did not offer employment or advancement in exchange for sex. Any suggestion that I did so is completely false.

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