Antonyms for setback

Grammar : Noun

Spell : set-bak

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛtˌbæk

Definition of setback

Origin : also set-back, 1670s, "reversal, check to progress," from set (v.) + back (adv.). Sometimes backset was used in the same sense. Meaning "space between a building and a property line" is from 1916. To set (someone) back "cost" is from 1900.

noun disappointment

Example sentences :

But, as the footbridge was approached, his purpose received a setback.
Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum

Some Manchurian walnuts also got a setback with spring frosts, and some did not.
Extract from : « Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 » by Various

It was not till about four o'clock that they met with their first setback.
Extract from : « The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point » by Laura Lee Hope

A 365 setback like this had only a stimulating effect on his spirit.
Extract from : « The Watchers of the Plains » by Ridgewell Cullum

This is a setback from which only the most experienced advocate can readily recover.
Extract from : « The Art of Cross-Examination » by Francis L. Wellman

Evidently Jimmy was not at all dismayed by his present setback.
Extract from : « Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys » by Louis Arundel

The combs were broken which gave the bees a setback from which they did not recover.
Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work » by Mary Rogers Miller

After the setback at Tidborough he was to have spent all his holidays at home.
Extract from : « This Freedom » by A. S. M. Hutchinson

We're only so grieved, your mother and I, that you should have had such a setback so early.
Extract from : « This Freedom » by A. S. M. Hutchinson

But he was as undaunted by this setback as he had been by his retirement from the Navy.
Extract from : « Famous Flyers » by David Goodger (goodger@python.org)

Synonyms for setback

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