Retardation synonyms

rē'tär-dā'shən

Category:

impediment (related)
Anything preventing the making of a legal contract, esp. of a marriage contract
7
4
mental-retardation
Below-average intellectual ability resulting from a genetic defect, brain injury, or disease, and usually present from birth or early infancy.
7
8
slowness
(Physics) A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.
6
3
delay
The act of delaying; postponement:
5
3
deceleration
(Countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity decreases (so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
5
3
hindrance
Any person or thing that hinders; obstacle; impediment; obstruction
5
4
lag
A lagging, as in billiards and marbles
4
2
Advertisement
subnormality
The state or condition of being subnormal.
2
1
backwardness
The state of being backward.
2
2
detainment
The condition of being detained; detention
2
2
obstacle
Something that stands in the way of or holds up progress:
2
3
insanity (related)
The definition of insanity is having a serious mental illness or being extremely foolish.
2
3
holdup
(Physics) The amount of fissionable material being processed or in storage for irradiation in a reactor cycle
2
3
time (related)
The usual, natural, traditional, or appointed moment for something to happen, begin, or end [time to get up]
1
0
Advertisement
slowdown
A slowing down, as of production
1
0
slowing
Deceleration; slowing down
1
0
retardant
(Often in combination) Something that serves to retard (slow down) the action of something
1
0
retardent
any agent that retards or delays or hinders
1
0
acceleration (antonym)
The rate of change in the velocity of a moving body
1
0
help (related)
(Uncountable, euphemistic) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
1
1
pubertal (related)
0
0
Advertisement
Language-sex (related)
0
3
Find another word for retardation. In this page you can discover 22 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for retardation, like: impediment, mental-retardation, slowness, delay, deceleration, hindrance, lag, subnormality, backwardness, detainment and obstacle.
Trending topics
More Articles

Retardation Sentence Examples

  • The consequences must depend upon the amount of the retardation.

  • The rate of diminution of amplitude expressed by the coefficient a in the index of the exponential is here greater than the coefficient b expressing the retardation of phase by a small term depending on the emissivity h.

More sentences

Words near retardation in the Thesaurus