失墜|しっついshittsui[0]heiban (flat)

Common
Definitions
  1. noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbabasement; fall; forfeiture; sinking (in people's estimation)
    どんな理由りゆうがあろうと、せっかく軌道きどうに乗のせた貿易ぼうえきを失墜しっついさせたのは大だい失態しったいだ。↗
    Whatever the reason, forfeiting the trade that we finally got on track is a fiasco.
Conjugation
Dictionary form失墜する(しっついする)
Polite (masu)失墜します(しっついします)
Negative (nai)失墜しない(しっついしない)
polite (masen)失墜しません(しっついしません)
classical zu / nu失墜せず・失墜せぬ(しっついせず・しっついせぬ)
Past (ta)失墜した(しっついした)
polite (mashita)失墜しました(しっついしました)
Past negative (nakatta)失墜しなかった(しっついしなかった)
polite (masen deshita)失墜しませんでした(しっついしませんでした)
Te form失墜して(しっついして)
Potential失墜できる(しっついできる)
Passive失墜される(しっついされる)
Causative失墜させる(しっついさせる)
Causative passive失墜させられる(しっついさせられる)
Conditional (ba)失墜すれば(しっついすれば)
tara失墜したら(しっついしたら)
Volitional失墜しよう(しっついしよう)
polite (mashou)失墜しましょう(しっついしましょう)
Imperative失墜しろ(しっついしろ)

Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym喪失そうしつWrittenWritten register. Loss in general, with a wide range of objects like memory or confidence; 「失墜」 is limited to the fall of prestige, credibility, or status.
  • Related破滅はめつWrittenWritten register. Complete ruin or destruction, down to disgrace and downfall; 「失墜」 is a drop in prestige, credibility, or status, short of destruction.
  • Related衰亡すいぼうWrittenWritten/formal prose. Decline and fall, said chiefly of nations and families; 「失墜」 refers to the loss of prestige.
  • Antonym向上こうじょうNeutralNeutral register. Improvement or advancement, the direct opposite of 「失墜」.
  • Antonym上昇じょうしょうNeutralNeutral register. Rising or climbing, the opposite of the fall expressed by 「失墜」.

Use 「失墜」 for a fall in credibility or prestige, as in 「信用失墜」. For loss in general pick 「喪失」, for utter ruin 「破滅」, for the decline and fall of nations or families 「衰亡」; 「向上」 and 「上昇」 are its opposites.

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Japanese definitions
  1. 信用しんようなどを失うしなうこと。落おとすこと。
  2. 無駄使むだづかいすること。浪費ろうひ。
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