rot

Synonyms

atrophy, crumble, decay, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, devolve, ebb, regress, retrograde, sink, worsen;

Antonyms

ameliorate, improve, meliorate;

Near Antonyms

better, upgrade;

enhance, enrich, fortify, heighten, intensify, strengthen;

advance, develop, march, proceed, progress;

Related Words

abate, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, recede, wane;

break down, corrupt, decompose, degrade, dilapidate, disintegrate, molder, putrefy;

sour, spoil;

lessen, lower, reduce;

debilitate, undermine;

droop, fail, fall, flag, lag, languish, run down, sag, slip, waste (away), weaken, wilt;

Phrases

go to pot, go to seed (or run to seed);

Synonyms

balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blarney, blather, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, drivel, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twaddle;

Near Antonyms

levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness;

common sense, horse sense, sense;

discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom;

Related Words

absurdity, asininity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy;

absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness;

monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery;

gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole);

double-talk, hocus-pocus;