setback
Meaning
- An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
- (broadly) Any adverse event, defeat, or impediment of progress.
- (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
- A step-like recession in a wall.
- An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
- (archaic, possibly) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
- (archaic) A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
Synonyms
setting backward
non event
a near miss
recedence
setback type
Translations
Rückschlag
contratiempo
échec
revés
aksilik
نَكْسَةFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsɛtbæk/
Etymology
Deverbal from set back. Compare drawback.
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