vicious cycle

1. 1.

   one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first

   Synonymsvicious circle

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Questions about vicious cycle

What does vicious cycle mean?

vicious cycle means "one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first".

What is another word for vicious cycle?

Close synonyms include vicious circle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vicious cycle a common word?

vicious cycle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.