All backslide synonyms
back·slide
B b verb backslide
- go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
- relapse — to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
- lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- revert — to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc.: They reverted to the ways of their forefathers.
- sin — the 12th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- apostatize — to forsake or abandon one's belief, faith, or allegiance
- slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- deviate — To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
- fall from grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- regress — to move backward; go back.
noun backslide
- recidivism — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- devolution — Devolution is the transfer of some authority or power from a central organization or government to smaller organizations or government departments.