The most popular online dictionary and thesaurus for learners of English
climb down
UK — phrasal verb with climb /klaɪm/ verbDefinition
(Definition of climb down from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Focus on the pronunciation of climb down
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Changing your mind, but you might be interested in these topics from the Using the mind topic area:
- Analysing and evaluating
- Aware
- Believable
- Believing
- Concluding and deducing
- Continually thinking about
- Decisions and deciding
- Deep in thought
- Difficult to understand
- Dreaming
- Easy to understand
- Empathy and sensitivity
- Experienced
- Experts and specialists
- Expressing and asking opinions
- Forgetting and forgetfulness
- Guesses and assumptions
- Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- Ideas, concepts and theories
- Imagining and conceiving
- Inability and awkwardness
- Inexperienced (of people)
- Inexperienced people and lack of experience
- Inspiration and inspiring
- Intelligence
- Intelligent people
- Judgments and analyses
- Knowledge and awareness
- Logic and reason
- Memory and memories
- Mind and personality
- Misunderstanding
- Not believable
- Not believing
- Not expected or planned
- Opinions, beliefs and points of view
- People who analyse and judge
- People who make predictions
- Philosophy
- Planning, expecting and arranging
- Plans and arrangements
- Predicting things and intuition
- Remembering, reminding and reminders
- Skill, talent and ability
- Skilled, talented and able
- Solving and solutions
- Stupid and silly
- Stupid and silly behaviour
- Stupid and silly people
- Testing, checking and experimenting
- Thinking and contemplating
- Trusting and not trusting
- Unaware
- Understanding and comprehending
- Wise and sensible
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
SMART Thesaurus: Changing your mind
Synonyms and related words:
- 180 noun
- about-turn noun
- back away phrasal verb
- back out phrasal verb
- cave in phrasal verb (AGREE)
- change of heart idiom
- come round phrasal verb (CHANGE YOUR MIND)
- get cold feet idiom
- go back on sth phrasal verb
- move verb (CHANGE OPINION)
- oscillate verb
- pendulum noun
- pull (sb/sth) out phrasal verb (ACTIVITY)
- reassess verb
- second thought noun
- seesaw verb
- shift (your) ground idiom
- think again idiom
- think better of sth idiom
- time-server noun
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Our dictionaries
Word of the Day
spurn
to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that they are not worth having
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
