vicious cycle

Questions about vicious cycle

What is another word for vicious cycle?

It depends which vicious cycle you mean. In the sense “one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first”, the synonyms are vicious circle. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of vicious cycle?

WordNet records no antonym for vicious cycle. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for vicious cycle come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of vicious cycle

• Full entry for vicious cycleAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for vicious cycleWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.