lapses

Meaning of lapses

plural noun
  1. a brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement.
    a lapse of concentration in the second set cost her the match
  2. an interval or passage of time.
    there was a considerable lapse of time between the two events
verb, 3rd person present
  1. (of a right, privilege, or agreement) become invalid because it is not used, claimed, or renewed; expire.
    he let his membership of CND lapse
  2. pass gradually into (an inferior state or condition).
    the country has lapsed into chaos

late Middle English: from Latin lapsus, from labi ‘to glide, slip, or fall’; the verb reinforced by Latin lapsare ‘to slip or stumble’.

Information about lapses

  • The singular form of lapses is: lapse.
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Hyphenation of lapses

lapses

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • lapses is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

lapses synonyms

Meaning lack of success:

failure

Meaning a weakness, especially in a person's character; a shortcoming:

failing

Meaning a minor or careless mistake:

slip

Meaning a mistake:

error

Meaning an act or judgement that is misguided or wrong:

mistake

Meaning a stupid or careless mistake:

blunder

Meaning an unattractive or unsatisfactory feature, especially in a piece of work or in a person's character:

fault

Meaning a failure to fulfil a moral or legal obligation:

omission

Meaning an unintentional failure to notice or do something:

oversight

Meaning failure to take proper care over something:

negligence

Meaning the state of having been abandoned and become dilapidated:

dereliction

Meaning a mark which is not high enough to pass an examination or test:

fail

Meaning an intervening time:

interval

Meaning a break or hole in an object or between two objects:

gap

Meaning a temporary stop in action or speech:

pause

Meaning a pause or break:

intermission

Meaning an intervening period of time; an interval:

interlude

Meaning a temporary interval of quiet or lack of activity:

lull

Meaning a pause or break in continuity in a sequence or activity:

hiatus

Meaning an interruption of continuity or uniformity:

break

Meaning the action or process of moving through or past somewhere on the way from one place to another:

passage

Meaning the route or direction followed by a ship, aircraft, road, or river:

course

Meaning the passage of something, especially time:

passing

Meaning a length or portion of time:

period

Meaning a word or phrase used to describe a thing or to express a concept, especially in a particular kind of language or branch of study:

term

Meaning the full extent of something from end to end; the amount of space that something covers:

span

Meaning write or name the letters that form (a word) in correct sequence:

spell

Meaning (of a document, authorization, or agreement) come to the end of the period of validity:

expire, expired

Meaning bring to an end:

terminate, terminated

Meaning declare that (something) is not valid or legally binding:

void

Meaning remove (someone) from active service in the armed forces because of injury or illness:

invalid

Meaning (of a product) no longer available or produced:

discontinued

Meaning become progressively worse:

deteriorate

Meaning (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease:

decline

Meaning move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control:

fall

Meaning let or make (something) fall vertically:

drop

Meaning make or become worse:

worsen

Meaning decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally:

degenerate

Meaning (of organic matter) rot or decompose through the action of bacteria and fungi:

decay

Meaning (chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose:

rot

Meaning relapse into bad ways or error:

backslide

Meaning return to a former or less developed state:

regress

Meaning go back to an earlier state, typically a worse one:

retrogress

Meaning go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged:

sink

Meaning (of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size:

wane

Meaning fail or decline substantially:

slump

lapses antonyms

Meaning belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now:

current

Meaning (of an argument or point) having a sound basis in logic or fact; reasonable or cogent:

valid

Meaning make or become better:

improve

Meaning make or become stronger:

strengthen

Anagrams of lapses

passel, saleps, sepals, spales, speals

Words that rhyme with lapses

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