Attrition Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-trĭshən
Repentance that is not perfect because not prompted solely by sorrow for having offended God
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. contrition
  2. contriteness
Antonyms:
  1. happiness
A feeling of regret for one's sins or misdeeds
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. abrasion
  2. reduction
  3. friction
  4. regret
  5. rubbing
  6. remorse
  7. weakening
  8. repentance
  9. wearing down
  10. wearing away
  11. compunction
  12. contriteness
  13. contrition
  14. detrition
  15. grief
  16. penitence
  17. grinding down
  18. penance
  19. penitency
  20. erosion
  21. grinding
  22. depreciation
  23. gradual disintegration
  24. remorsefulness
  25. decline
  26. sorrow
  27. rue
  28. corrasion
  29. thinning
  30. wear
Antonyms:
  1. increase
  2. building
  3. appreciation
  4. buildup
  5. strengthening
Synonyms:
(Adverb)
  1. penitently

Attrition Sentence Examples

  • When the attrition is carried further, so that the grain is reduced to small round pellets, it is termed " pearl barley."

  • Its great hardness also enables it to resist attrition.

  • Others will suffer the steady attrition of chronic health problems that diminish the quality of their life for much of their old age.

  • About a third of the jobs will be lost through natural attrition.

  • This doctrine of Attrition had not the undivided support of the theologians of the later medieval church; but it was taught by the Scotists and was naturally a favourite theme with the sellers of Indulgences.

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