Downfall Synonyms and Antonyms

dounfôl
A disastrous overwhelming defeat or ruin
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. collapse
  2. fall
  3. waterloo
Antonyms:
  1. rise
  2. ascent
  3. success
  4. accomplishment
Something that causes total loss or severe impairment, as of one's health, fortune, honor, or hopes
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ruin
  2. destruction
  3. ruination
  4. bane
  5. destroyer
  6. fall
  7. undoing
  8. precipitation
  9. comedown
  10. wrecker

Words Related to Downfall

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Downfall Sentence Examples

  • One stroke of luck, however, fell to him before his downfall.

  • After the downfall of Oldenbarneveldt the office of lands'- advocate was abolished, and a new post, tenable for five years only, was erected in its place with the title of Raad-Pensionaris, or Pensionary of the Council, usually called by English writers.

  • The attempts of the Federalist party to create a system of internal taxation was a leading cause of its downfall.

  • He filled the posts successively of censeur royale (1766) and of inspector general of the domains of the crown (1768); he was also one of the chief advisers of the chancellor Maupeou, took part in his struggle against the parlements, and shared in his downfall in 1774.

  • Bignon, after a short imprisonment at the hands of the allies, returned to France in time to witness the downfall of Napoleon.

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