All betterment antonyms

noun betterment

• deterioration — the act or process of deteriorating.
• impairment — the state of being diminished, weakened, or damaged, especially mentally or physically: cognitive impairment in older adults.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• retrogression — the act of retrogressing; movement backward.
• unhealthily — not in a state of good or normal health; in an unsound, weak, or morbid condition.