English-Thai Dictionary
setback
N การ เสื่อมถอย การทรุด ลง การ ยุบตัว relapse kan-suam-toi
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SETBACK
SETBACK Set "back `, n.
1. (Arch. )
Defn: Offset, n., 4.
2. A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy. [U. S.]
3. A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse. [Colloq. U.S.]
New American Oxford Dictionary
setback
set back |ˈsetˌbak ˈsɛtˌbæk | ▶noun 1 a reversal or check in progress: a serious setback for the peace process. 2 Architecture a plain, flat offset in a wall. 3 the distance by which a building or part of a building is set back from the property line.
Oxford Dictionary
setback
set |back |ˈsɛtbak | ▶noun 1 a reversal or check in progress: a serious setback for the peace process. 2 Architecture a plain, flat offset in a wall. 3 N. Amer. the distance by which a building or part of a building is set back from the property line.
American Oxford Thesaurus
setback
setback noun this is a team famous for surmounting every setback that fate sends their way: problem, difficulty, hitch, complication, upset, disappointment, misfortune, mishap, reversal; blow, stumbling block, hurdle, hindrance, impediment, obstruction; delay, holdup; informal glitch, hiccup. ANTONYMS breakthrough.
Oxford Thesaurus
setback
setback noun Alexander was faced with one setback after another and most people would have given up: problem, difficulty, hitch, complication, upset, disappointment, misfortune, mishap, piece of bad luck, unfortunate development, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune; blow, body blow, knock; stumbling block, hindrance, impediment, obstruction; delay, hold-up, check; informal glitch, hiccup, (double ) whammy, kick in the teeth, knock-back, one in the eye; archaic foil. ANTONYMS breakthrough, step forward.
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