Set Back Synonyms and Antonyms

Structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. setoff
  2. offset

Words Related to Set Back

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.

Related:

  1. defeat
  2. set
  3. hinder
  4. financial-crisis
  5. disappointment
  6. closed-off
  7. demolish
  8. 50yds
  9. setback
  10. upheaval

Set Back Sentence Examples

  • The acceptance by the powers of the Murzsteg programme and the appointment of Austrian and Russian financial agents in Macedonia was an advantage for Austria and a set-back for Italy; hut the latter scored a success in the appointment of General de Giorgis as commander of the international Macedonian gendarmerie; she also obtained, with the support of Great Britain, France and Russia, the assignment of the partly Albanian district of Monastir to the Italian officers of that corps.

  • Toke gives reason to believe that the date must be set back at least as early as 910.

  • Since this time there has been no set-back to the prosperity of the city.

  • The succeeding years, however, 1825-1828, showed a serious set-back, due to the lack of discipline.

  • There is no more evidence to warrant the wholly erroneous statement sometimes made that emancipation was an economic set-back to Cuba than could be gathered to support a similar statement regarding the United States.

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