worsening

THESAURUS

worsening

about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, aggravation, alteration, amelioration, amplification, annoyance, apostasy, augmentation, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, coming apart, constructive change, contentiousness, continuity, conversion, cracking, crumbling, decadent, declining, deepening, defection, degenerate, degeneration, degenerative change, deliberate aggravation, deteriorating, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, disintegrating, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exasperation, fading, failing, falling, fitting, flagging, flip-flop, fragmenting, going to pieces, gradual change, heightening, improvement, increase, intensification, irritation, languishing, magnification, marcescent, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, pining, provocation, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, regressive, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, retrograde, retrogressive, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, sharpening, shift, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, souring, subsiding, sudden change, switch, tabetic, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, waning, wasting, wilting, withering

ROGET THESAURUS

worsening

Aggravation

N aggravation, worsening, heightening, exacerbation, exasperation, overestimation, exaggeration, aggravated, worse, unrelieved, aggravable, aggravating, out of the frying pan into the fire, from bad to worse, worse and worse, Int, so much the worse!.