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/ˈbakslaɪdə/ · noun
A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate..
She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.
At night the Red Elephant Tusk boomed and groaned among the hills, and the faithful waked and said: ‘The God of Things as They Are matures revenge against the backsliders.’
The choice of unilateralism by the US also exposed it to charges that it is a backslider on its WTO commitments.
You say that you “lapse into coupledom” on occasion. Do you get grief from fellow militant singles for being a backslider?
Use backslider when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Backslider means A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate..
Common synonyms include recidivist, reversionist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.
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