setback means An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome). Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 66 out of 100.
noun
- An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).“After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.”
- Any adverse event, defeat, or impediment of progress.
- The required distance between a structure and a road.
- A step-like recession in a wall.“Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.”
- An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.“Fuel savings from thermostat setbacks have long been accepted as fact, but little documentation existed to support it.”
- A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.