| Library / English Dictionary |
LAPSED
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
No longer active or practicing
Example:
a lapsed Catholic
Synonyms:
lapsed; nonchurchgoing
Classified under:
Similar:
irreligious (hostile or indifferent to religion)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb lapse
Context examples:
The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist, and then, as her newspaper dampened under her fingers, lapsed despairingly into deep heat with a desolate cry.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
