BACKSLIDER

recidivist, backslider, reversionist

(noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

backslider (plural backsliders)

A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.

Anagrams

• blackrides

Source: Wiktionary


Back"slid"er, n.

Definition: One who backslides.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

21 April 2025

ENCYCLOPEDIA

(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty


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An article published in Harvard Menโ€™s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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