All development antonyms
de·vel·op·ment
D d noun development
- stasis — the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces.
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- lessening — to become less.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
- withdrawal — Also, withdrawment. the act or condition of withdrawing.
- stagnation — the state or condition of stagnating, or having stopped, as by ceasing to run or flow: Meteorologists forecast ozone and air stagnation.
- 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.
- source — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- origin — something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.