Definition for Decline:

• Progressive decrease, whether of disease or of the strength or health.

Synonyms for Decline:

• n.

  •
  • dwindle.
  •
  • conjugate,
  • nix.
  •
  • cut,
  • cutback.
  •
  • retrograde.
  •
  • fizzle,
  • waste,
  • fail,
  • languish,
  • flag,
  • weaken.
  •decadence (noun)
  • devolution.
  •declension (noun)
  • decadency.
  •decline (noun)
  • descent,
  • diminution,
  • worsen,
  • declination,
  • reject,
  • turn down,
  • wane,
  • decay,
  • refuse,
  • go down,
  • declivity,
  • pass up,
  • fall,
  • downslope,
  • declension.
  •decrease (noun)
  • decrement,
  • cutback,
  • drop.
  •degeneracy (noun)
  • Depravation.
  •descent (noun)
  • descent,
  • slope,
  • grade,
  • comedown.
  •deterioration (noun)
  • deterioration,
  • degeneration,
  • decadence,
  • corruption,
  • dilapidation,
  • retrogression,
  • putrefaction,
  • degeneracy.
  •disappointment (noun)
  • anticlimax.
  •downward change in value, position (noun)
  • downswing,
  • incline,
  • drop-off,
  • depression,
  • slope,
  • downslide,
  • downtrend,
  • declivity,
  • slip,
  • sag,
  • dip,
  • slide,
  • lowering,
  • loss,
  • decrease.
  •failure (noun)
  • fiasco,
  • nonfeasance,
  • nonsuccess,
  • washout,
  • insolvency,
  • Unsuccess,
  • inadequacy.
  •lessening (noun)
  • degeneracy,
  • degeneration,
  • dwindling,
  • backsliding,
  • pratfall,
  • enfeeblement,
  • ebb,
  • dissolution,
  • flop,
  • waning,
  • ebbing,
  • lapse,
  • on the skids,
  • failure,
  • failing,
  • falling off,
  • fall,
  • worsening,
  • drop,
  • senility,
  • descent,
  • recession,
  • deterioration,
  • relapse,
  • dive,
  • downturn,
  • slump,
  • weakening,
  • comedown,
  • skids,
  • diminution,
  • cropper,
  • abatement,
  • downfall,
  • decrepitude,
  • decay,
  • wane,
  • devolution,
  • downgrade.
  •let-up (noun)
  • subsidence.
  •old age (noun)
  • senility.
  •plunge (noun)
  • nose dive.
  •process (noun)
  • diminution.
  •refusal (noun)
  • declination.
  •regression (noun)
  • recession,
  • Retrocession,
  • backsliding,
  • throwback,
  • regression,
  • Retrogradation.
  •slackening (noun)
  • slackening.
  •slowdown (noun)
  • deceleration,
  • falloff.

• v.

  •age (verb)
  • endure,
  • deteriorate,
  • last,
  • ripen,
  • grow old,
  • season,
  • age,
  • mellow,
  • mature.
  •avoid (verb)
  • abstain,
  • escape,
  • duck,
  • avert,
  • shrink,
  • elude,
  • shun,
  • dodge,
  • sidestep,
  • skip,
  • shirk,
  • avoid,
  • bypass,
  • evade,
  • recoil,
  • circumvent.
  •change (verb)
  • worsen.
  •defy (verb)
  • disobey.
  •descend (verb)
  • fall,
  • slant,
  • topple,
  • descend,
  • drop,
  • fall down,
  • tumble,
  • plunge,
  • lower,
  • come down,
  • set,
  • go down,
  • settle,
  • plummet.
  •deteriorate (verb)
  • slide,
  • wither,
  • putrefy,
  • atrophy,
  • go downhill,
  • slump,
  • regress,
  • relapse,
  • decay,
  • wilt,
  • moulder,
  • retrogress,
  • tergiversate,
  • wane,
  • dilapidate,
  • sink,
  • ebb,
  • downgrade,
  • fade,
  • revert,
  • collapse,
  • fall apart,
  • get worse,
  • lapse,
  • worsen,
  • slip,
  • degenerate.
  •lessen, become less (verb)
  • dwindle,
  • rot,
  • languish,
  • depreciate,
  • disintegrate,
  • settle,
  • hit the skids,
  • weaken,
  • flag,
  • shrink,
  • Disimprove,
  • degenerate,
  • lower,
  • retrograde,
  • fade,
  • pine,
  • subside,
  • go downhill,
  • worsen,
  • abate,
  • cheapen,
  • fail,
  • go to pot,
  • fall off,
  • backslide,
  • recede,
  • droop,
  • diminish,
  • sink,
  • go to the dogs,
  • revert,
  • lose value,
  • deteriorate,
  • return.
  •lessening (verb)
  • abatement.
  •refuse (verb)
  • refuse,
  • repudiate,
  • reject,
  • disagree,
  • deny,
  • disincline,
  • dismiss,
  • disdain,
  • repulse,
  • renounce.
  •regress (verb)
  • recess,
  • backslide,
  • return.
  •say no (verb)
  • don't buy,
  • spurn,
  • forgo,
  • gainsay,
  • not think of,
  • reject,
  • nix,
  • deny,
  • reprobate,
  • bypass,
  • balk,
  • turn down,
  • desist,
  • repudiate,
  • refuse,
  • pass on,
  • disapprove,
  • not accept,
  • abstain,
  • demur,
  • not hear of,
  • send regrets,
  • avoid,
  • shy,
  • abjure,
  • refrain,
  • dismiss,
  • turn thumbs down,
  • forbear,
  • beg to be excused,
  • renounce.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • downturn,
  • cutback,
  • throw out,
  • spiral,
  • depreciate,
  • die down,
  • downtrend,
  • flatline,
  • sag,
  • dive,
  • drop away,
  • downslide,
  • weaken,
  • erosion,
  • wear,
  • slacken,
  • slack off,
  • downswing,
  • ease.
  •
  • mitigation,
  • forbid,
  • moderation,
  • recede,
  • veto,
  • rundown,
  • breakdown,
  • prohibit,
  • nix.
  •
  • fail,
  • distort,
  • fester,
  • loss,
  • rot,
  • nosedive,
  • crack-up,
  • languish,
  • fizzle.
  •
  • skid,
  • retrograde,
  • suffer.
  •
  • deepen.
  •
  • failure,
  • go.
  •
  • go off,
  • withdraw,
  • waste,
  • get along.
  •
  • cut.
  •age
  • get along,
  • grow old.
  •cheapen
  • mark down,
  • beat down,
  • lose value.
  •contract
  • wrinkle,
  • become smaller,
  • grow less,
  • fall away.
  •corrode
  • rust.
  •decrease
  • peter,
  • petering out,
  • die down,
  • slack off,
  • run low,
  • tail off.
  •deny
  • disclaim.
  •descend
  • cave in,
  • plop.
  •deteriorate
  • go to pot,
  • devolve,
  • become worse.
  •die
  • dilapidate,
  • melt away,
  • fizzle out,
  • break down.
  •diminish
  • die out.
  •disagree
  • dissent.
  •disintegrate
  • come apart.
  •dismiss
  • push aside.
  •fail
  • fall flat,
  • fall through,
  • be defeated,
  • falling short,
  • fall short.
  •glide
  • glissade.
  •languish
  • conk out,
  • go soft.
  •lessen
  • wind down,
  • de-escalate,
  • winding down.
  •lose
  • come short,
  • lose.
  •old age
  • senility.
  •peter
  • peter out.
  •pine
  • fall away.
  •recede
  • go away,
  • Retrocede,
  • recede,
  • die off.
  •refuse
  • turn away,
  • send regrets,
  • not buy,
  • beg off.
  •renounce
  • abnegate,
  • abstain from.
  •waste
  • waste.
  •weaken
  • thin out.
  •Other relevant words:
  • drop away,
  • deflate,
  • quotation,
  • disappear,
  • free fall,
  • totter,
  • capitulation,
  • bank,
  • revoke,
  • idle,
  • grudge,
  • anticlimax,
  • infirm,
  • bloodline,
  • demotion,
  • toboggan,
  • secondhand,
  • turnabout,
  • eventide,
  • give way,
  • disregard,
  • defy,
  • decrepit,
  • swag,
  • throw over,
  • weaken,
  • falter,
  • abbreviate,
  • make worse,
  • assent,
  • advanced age,
  • decease,
  • turn thumbs down on,
  • falling,
  • diminish,
  • not make it,
  • beg off,
  • sinkage,
  • subsidence,
  • weathered,
  • mark down,
  • excessively,
  • shake,
  • defalcation,
  • drop-off,
  • refrain,
  • negative,
  • flop,
  • cachexia,
  • get along,
  • declining,
  • perish,
  • flameout,
  • evenfall,
  • lay aside,
  • run short,
  • worse,
  • hollow,
  • falling down,
  • devolution,
  • dotage,
  • degradation,
  • unimproved,
  • denial,
  • contemn,
  • conjugate,
  • recidivism,
  • hit rock bottom,
  • senilism,
  • come short,
  • offensive,
  • curtail,
  • scout,
  • Deliquesce,
  • moderation,
  • golden years,
  • pratfall,
  • reduction,
  • turn away,
  • come unstuck,
  • submerge,
  • candlelight,
  • frayed,
  • Cheapening,
  • break,
  • catenary,
  • Ebb tide,
  • declension,
  • stick,
  • depletion,
  • sickly,
  • expiration,
  • cast,
  • disallow,
  • defeat,
  • tapering off,
  • settle down,
  • old age,
  • vesper,
  • hold out,
  • movement,
  • thin out,
  • shorten,
  • diminuendo,
  • end,
  • boggle,
  • closing,
  • sway,
  • crack-up,
  • flag,
  • totally,
  • nominal value,
  • slacken,
  • destruction,
  • fiasco,
  • peak,
  • trough,
  • forbid,
  • go to pieces,
  • contraction,
  • die out,
  • helpless,
  • distort,
  • mark,
  • stale,
  • childishness,
  • Unsuccess,
  • throw away,
  • trim,
  • winding down,
  • gutter,
  • deduction,
  • run low,
  • slant,
  • second childhood,
  • market price,
  • die away,
  • crack,
  • battered,
  • shortfall,
  • discard,
  • go,
  • diffuse,
  • imperfect,
  • losses,
  • decline in quality,
  • bracket,
  • slop,
  • insufficiency,
  • dye,
  • thaw,
  • cause,
  • cadence,
  • fading,
  • run off,
  • hit the skids,
  • sag,
  • debility,
  • flump,
  • stirring,
  • depreciation,
  • reverse,
  • go off,
  • declivity,
  • nauseous,
  • snub,
  • shatter,
  • beg to be excused,
  • retreat,
  • founder,
  • retire,
  • die off,
  • glide,
  • die,
  • washout,
  • wizen,
  • entirely,
  • faltering,
  • feeble,
  • banish,
  • lour,
  • be unwilling,
  • Caducity,
  • rally,
  • discount,
  • slackening,
  • deficit,
  • fall flat,
  • decadence,
  • certainly,
  • exceedingly,
  • drop down,
  • dwindle,
  • dent,
  • sidle,
  • tip,
  • drift away,
  • failing,
  • book value,
  • delinquency,
  • illness,
  • reversion,
  • filiation,
  • fester,
  • senile psychosis,
  • spurn,
  • rebuff,
  • dissolution,
  • skid,
  • prune,
  • purely,
  • lower oneself,
  • shortage,
  • face value,
  • go under,
  • withhold,
  • chuck out,
  • glissade,
  • store,
  • compensate,
  • dwindling,
  • poor,
  • nix,
  • say no,
  • disown,
  • de-escalate,
  • gradient,
  • stated value,
  • downturn,
  • clip,
  • palsy,
  • give,
  • threadbare,
  • grow smaller,
  • crop,
  • recant,
  • weather-beaten,
  • be reduced,
  • disclaim,
  • shrivel,
  • ruin,
  • mount,
  • rot,
  • definitely,
  • hang,
  • sicken,
  • vanish,
  • shake the head,
  • abandon,
  • cessation,
  • on the skids,
  • jib,
  • turnaround,
  • limp,
  • flurry,
  • tailspin,
  • go to pot,
  • Depravedness,
  • positively,
  • climacteric,
  • swings,
  • wind down,
  • get on,
  • catabasis,
  • give out,
  • parse,
  • brush aside,
  • dissolve,
  • bid price,
  • lack,
  • nightfall,
  • forsake,
  • keel,
  • despise,
  • camber,
  • cut,
  • time of life,
  • scale down,
  • lose ground,
  • arrears,
  • Shrivelling,
  • disperse,
  • shabby,
  • pine,
  • break down,
  • faint,
  • slowdown,
  • disintegration,
  • depressed,
  • debasement,
  • slow,
  • de-escalation,
  • let down,
  • send regrets,
  • crash,
  • price cut,
  • maturity,
  • sublime,
  • spin,
  • delicacy,
  • reduced,
  • remission,
  • Degenerateness,
  • shy,
  • demur,
  • curfew,
  • easing,
  • hanging,
  • wear away,
  • insolvency,
  • recall,
  • bust,
  • waive,
  • flagging,
  • death,
  • miscarriage,
  • inactivity,
  • chasten,
  • thoroughly,
  • bring down,
  • putrescence,
  • parity,
  • forgo,
  • disintegrate,
  • abnegate,
  • deformation,
  • jilt,
  • suffer,
  • Retrocede,
  • fail,
  • submergence,
  • par,
  • Recidivation,
  • languid,
  • omit,
  • reduce,
  • surely,
  • wilted,
  • descending,
  • blood line,
  • nonsuccess,
  • rule out,
  • erode,
  • dissent,
  • indigestion,
  • indeed,
  • Disimprove,
  • really,
  • antiquity,
  • forswear,
  • peter out,
  • senility,
  • plop down,
  • go bad,
  • sagging,
  • cropper,
  • grand climacteric,
  • pass,
  • Deteriorated,
  • ailing,
  • cut down,
  • activity,
  • downswing,
  • ignore,
  • extraction,
  • devaluate,
  • going down,
  • lowland,
  • disapprove,
  • withdraw,
  • Parenthesize,
  • gloaming,
  • dim,
  • stand aloof,
  • shelve,
  • nonfeasance,
  • shaken,
  • dock,
  • go soft,
  • revolting,
  • retract,
  • lull,
  • come apart,
  • however,
  • plump,
  • Tabid,
  • fall through,
  • invalidation,
  • conk out,
  • wasting,
  • ripe age,
  • decrescendo,
  • pull away,
  • beat down,
  • ancestry,
  • mitigation,
  • begrudge,
  • spill,
  • fixed price,
  • debase,
  • altered,
  • decompose,
  • diminution,
  • Anility,
  • bedtime,
  • nosedive,
  • move off,
  • fluctuation,
  • decrease,
  • default,
  • pin,
  • be defeated,
  • waste,
  • fall off,
  • shortcoming,
  • radioactive decay,
  • depression,
  • shrinking,
  • sunken,
  • senile dementia,
  • surrender,
  • worsening,
  • lop,
  • Nill,
  • pluck,
  • superannuation,
  • after noon,
  • taper,
  • defectiveness,
  • passe,
  • ablate,
  • downhill,
  • show the door,
  • freeze off,
  • twilight,
  • drain,
  • go down,
  • slouch,
  • longevity,
  • Diminishment,
  • shift,
  • authentically,
  • delay,
  • years,
  • languish,
  • depreciate,
  • rappel,
  • entropy,
  • slash,
  • close,
  • dip,
  • breakdown,
  • weakness,
  • condescend,
  • incline,
  • resist,
  • action,
  • scruple,
  • melt,
  • corrode,
  • go bankrupt,
  • liquefy,
  • nevertheless,
  • line of descent,
  • cave in,
  • abate,
  • rust,
  • Alzheimer's Disease,
  • disavow,
  • go to seed,
  • contradict,
  • except,
  • abjure,
  • abridge,
  • senescence,
  • coming down,
  • correct,
  • faded,
  • ease,
  • flaccid,
  • miss,
  • line,
  • cave,
  • stickle,
  • high,
  • turn,
  • vegetate,
  • waste away,
  • skew,
  • scorn,
  • utterly,
  • sundown,
  • short measure,
  • sickening,
  • push aside,
  • not buy,
  • miscarry,
  • Decaying,
  • loss,
  • crumble,
  • wear thin,
  • compress,
  • dive,
  • pass on,
  • senesce,
  • balk,
  • paralysis,
  • unseating,
  • decrement,
  • lose value,
  • degeneracy,
  • refuse to consider,
  • truncate,
  • bevel,
  • Arrear,
  • veto,
  • deface,
  • careen,
  • imperfection,
  • blood,
  • dusk,
  • subside,
  • injured,
  • swing,
  • lose strength,
  • Senectitude,
  • reversal,
  • price reduction,
  • reflux,
  • enfeeblement,
  • breed,
  • touch bottom,
  • be found wanting,
  • set back,
  • inferiority,
  • fuse,
  • remit,
  • not think of,
  • wrinkle,
  • deceleration,
  • Depravation,
  • expire,
  • punctuate,
  • yet,
  • stoop,
  • decidedly,
  • throw out,
  • dud,
  • hyphenate,
  • retrograde,
  • markdown,
  • consume,
  • Sprung,
  • spoil,
  • chuck,
  • Averseness,
  • seed,
  • low,
  • effeteness,
  • blackball,
  • consumption,
  • close of day,
  • rundown,
  • spoiling,
  • exasperate,
  • devitalization,
  • ramp,
  • declination,
  • stock,
  • lineage,
  • failure,
  • slippage,
  • lag,
  • sunset,
  • negate,
  • turn thumbs down,
  • not hear of,
  • lessen,
  • cutback,
  • origin,
  • spiral,
  • obscure,
  • angle,
  • market value,
  • pass up,
  • prohibit,
  • derogation,
  • quoted price,
  • desist,
  • letdown,
  • downslide,
  • evening,
  • gravitate,
  • prostration,
  • slack off,
  • go away,
  • refusal,
  • grow worse,
  • abstain from,
  • outgo,
  • repel,
  • eliminate,
  • marasmus,
  • inadequacy,
  • most,
  • waning,
  • plop,
  • Arrearage,
  • falling short,
  • list,
  • skids,
  • grow less,
  • greatly,
  • categorically,
  • droop,
  • decline and fall,
  • disobey,
  • flatline,
  • decrepitude,
  • setback,
  • cachexy,
  • slack,
  • become smaller,
  • ebbing,
  • lowering,
  • peter,
  • fall away,
  • declining years,
  • exacerbate,
  • pedigree,
  • extremely,
  • boil down,
  • on behalf of,
  • downtrend,
  • autumn,
  • deflation,
  • dec,
  • absolutely,
  • degrade,
  • perfectly,
  • reduce speed,
  • plummeting,
  • fall short,
  • ratchet,
  • queasy,
  • decadency,
  • downfall,
  • shrinkage,
  • devaluation,
  • let pass,
  • stagnate,
  • rotten,
  • fully,
  • recede,
  • analyse,
  • halt,
  • let go,
  • move away,
  • worn,
  • exclude,
  • analyze,
  • come to grief,
  • wan,
  • flash price,
  • pause,
  • evaporate,
  • collision,
  • shave,
  • hold out against,
  • go uphill,
  • wear out,
  • spoilage,
  • falloff,
  • closing price,
  • loathe,
  • dyspepsia,
  • go to the dogs,
  • flump down,
  • impair,
  • turn down,
  • cut prices,
  • abatement,
  • mild,
  • erosion,
  • concave,
  • dilapidated,
  • completely,
  • devolve,
  • dodder,
  • tail off,
  • oldness,
  • yield,
  • moderate,
  • curtailment,
  • tire,
  • sinking,
  • parentage,
  • die down,
  • change,
  • discontinuance,
  • point,
  • contract,
  • deepen,
  • inflect,
  • weak,
  • bid farewell,
  • par value,
  • give up,
  • price,
  • set,
  • downslope,
  • last stage,
  • nose dive,
  • wear,
  • climb,
  • tremble,
  • asking price,
  • lose,
  • condense,
  • cut back,
  • diminishing,
  • reprobate,
  • inclination,
  • fizzle out,
  • give the boot,
  • submerse,
  • forbear,
  • fizzle,
  • withering,
  • peg out,
  • pass by,
  • falling off,
  • disablement,
  • lessening,
  • pare,
  • underage,
  • delicate,
  • decomposition,
  • say no to,
  • eve,
  • Decurrence,
  • stop short,
  • tacky,
  • melt away,
  • get old,
  • not accept,
  • homestretch,
  • worn to rags,
  • become worse,
  • bate,
  • dying,
  • hang fire,
  • involution,
  • eclipse,
  • frail,
  • taper off,
  • flutter,
  • cant,
  • cheapen,
  • gainsay,
  • expiry,
  • don't buy,
  • weakening,
  • petering out,
  • enormously.

Antonyms for Decline:

• n.

  • downward change in value, position
    perfection.
  • lessening
    betterment, upgrade, strengthening, achievement, ascent, development, success, progress, improvement, accomplishment, rise, growth, strength, increase.
  • Other antonyms:
    pitch, lean, aggrandizement, enhance, aggravate, Glacis, exaltation, foment, continue, upturn, rejuvenation, enlargement, blossoming, rake, prime, magnify, upswing, uphill, uptrend, renewal, invigoration, hill, rage, accumulation, amplify, extension, restoration, heyday, continuation, uprise, uptick, up, heightening, revive, tilt, enlarge, flourishing, headway, Rejuvenescence, strengthening, flowering, revitalization.

• v.

  • change
    better.
  • descend
    even, level.
  • lessen, become less
    advance, flourish, expand, build, raise, extend, reach, enlarge, strengthen, win, praise, compliment, develop, grow, laud, enhance.
  • say no
    ascend, continue, say yes, allow, sanction, use, want, accept, indulge, grant, approve, improve, go up, go along, agree.

Homophones for Decline:

• disclaim, Dutch Elm, doxycycline, declaim.

Hypernym for Decline:

• n.

  • process
    erosion, nosedive, decline in quality, declension, loss, sinking spell, ebbing, deterioration, slippage, ebb, wane, Detumescence, worsening.

• v.

  • change
    sicken, drop off, slip, retrogress, deteriorate, tumble, lose, fall away, fail, turn down, devolve, regress, degenerate, suffer, impoverish, deprive, drop away, drop, retrograde, inflame, come down.
  • motion
    dip, sink.

Hyponym for Decline:

• n.

  • process
    decrease, decrement.

• v.

  • change
    change state, turn.
  • communication
    inflect.
  • motion
    drop.