What is another word for decreasing?
657 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dˈiːkɹiːsɪŋ], [ dˈiːkɹiːsɪŋ], [ d_ˈiː_k_ɹ_iː_s_ɪ_ŋ]
Decreasing is a word that describes a process of reduction in size, quantity or intensity. There are several synonyms for decreasing, each with its own nuance and application. Some of the synonyms for decreasing include dwindling, diminishing, declining, subsiding, waning, and abating. Dwindling implies a gradual reduction in size or resources. Diminishing suggests a decline in value or strength. Declining indicates a downward trend in numbers or quality. Subsiding implies a lessening in intensity or urgency. Waning suggests a reduction in strength or intensity. Abating suggests a more sudden and abrupt decrease in magnitude. These synonyms demonstrate the versatility and precision of the English language.
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Synonyms for Decreasing:
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adj.
• all • falling- de scending ,
- de-scending ,
- more abating ,
- more collapsing ,
- more declining ,
- more decreasing ,
- more diminishing ,
- more ebbing ,
- more settling ,
- more sliding ,
- more slipping ,
- more subsiding ,
- more toppling ,
- more weakening ,
- most abating ,
- most collapsing ,
- most declining ,
- most decreasing ,
- most diminishing ,
- most ebbing ,
- most settling ,
- most sliding ,
- most slipping ,
- most subsiding ,
- most toppling ,
- most weakening ,
- slipping ,
- sub siding ,
- sub-siding .
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n.
• contraction • decreasing • reducing -
v.
• curtailing • decreasing- Abbreviating ,
- Abridging ,
- Compacting ,
- Concentrating ,
- Curtailing ,
- Deducting ,
- Depleting ,
- Truncating ,
- compressing ,
- contracting ,
- decrementing ,
- deflating ,
- draining ,
- dying down ,
- eroding ,
- lowering ,
- receding ,
- shortening .
- Bobbing ,
- Cropping ,
- Culling ,
- Weeding ,
- clipping ,
- condensing ,
- downgrading ,
- lightening ,
- nipping ,
- paring ,
- pruning ,
- shaving ,
- shearing ,
- trimming .
Other synonyms:
Other relevant words:
- abridge ,
- absolution ,
- accommodate ,
- adjust ,
- adjustment ,
- adulterate ,
- aerodynamic ,
- alloy ,
- alteration ,
- annihilating ,
- annihilative ,
- appease ,
- atrophy ,
- attenuated ,
- bank discount ,
- barbed ,
- baseball swing ,
- belittle ,
- biting ,
- bleak ,
- blunt ,
- boil down ,
- bottle up ,
- bowdlerise ,
- bowdlerize ,
- break ,
- brighten ,
- bring down ,
- brush aside ,
- brush off ,
- buoy up ,
- burn ,
- cachexia ,
- cachexy ,
- capsule ,
- cark ,
- carving ,
- cast down ,
- castrate ,
- casual ,
- catching ,
- centrist ,
- chair ,
- change ,
- chasten ,
- check ,
- cheerless ,
- clip ,
- cold shoulder ,
- compression ,
- concentrate ,
- condensation ,
- conform ,
- conquer ,
- contain ,
- contract ,
- control ,
- corrupt ,
- counteract ,
- countermine ,
- crash ,
- crisp ,
- crucify ,
- crush ,
- curb ,
- cursory ,
- curve ,
- cut back ,
- cut of meat ,
- cut off ,
- cut out ,
- cut short ,
- cutting off ,
- damp ,
- dampen ,
- de-escalate ,
- debauch ,
- debilitative ,
- deceleration ,
- decline ,
- decoct ,
- deduct ,
- deduction ,
- deflect ,
- deflower ,
- degrading ,
- deject ,
- deletion ,
- demoralise ,
- demoralize ,
- denigration ,
- deoxidise ,
- deoxidize ,
- departure ,
- deprecate ,
- deprecating ,
- deprecative ,
- deprecatory ,
- descend ,
- devaluate ,
- devalue ,
- devastating ,
- deviate ,
- die away ,
- digest ,
- dilute ,
- discount rate ,
- dismay ,
- dismiss ,
- disorder ,
- dispirit ,
- disport ,
- disquiet ,
- disregard ,
- dissipate ,
- dissolution ,
- distil ,
- distill ,
- dockage ,
- down ,
- downsizing ,
- drop ,
- drop-off ,
- dwindle away ,
- dwindle down ,
- dwindling away ,
- ease ,
- easiness ,
- eating away ,
- ebb ,
- edged ,
- edit ,
- edit out ,
- emasculated ,
- enervating ,
- enfeebling ,
- ephemeral ,
- erosion ,
- exception ,
- excision ,
- exclusion ,
- exit ,
- expiration ,
- expurgate ,
- faded ,
- fadeout ,
- fall ,
- fall away ,
- falsify ,
- fell ,
- fillet ,
- film editing ,
- flow ,
- fool ,
- fool away ,
- foreshorten ,
- fritter ,
- frivol away ,
- frosty ,
- frown ,
- fugacious ,
- gash ,
- geld ,
- gelded ,
- get down ,
- get over ,
- girdle ,
- glower ,
- gnome ,
- go under ,
- going ,
- goldbricking ,
- goofing off ,
- grazing ,
- hack ,
- heavy ,
- hiatus ,
- hive off ,
- hold ,
- hold in ,
- ignore ,
- impeding ,
- inhibit ,
- interpolate ,
- issuance ,
- issue ,
- keen ,
- keep down ,
- knifelike ,
- knock down ,
- lancinate ,
- lancinating ,
- lead ,
- let down ,
- let up ,
- letting down ,
- liberalisation ,
- liberalization ,
- lighten up ,
- limiting ,
- load ,
- loosening ,
- loss ,
- lour ,
- lower berth ,
- make out ,
- mar ,
- master ,
- melt off ,
- middle of the roader ,
- midget ,
- mince ,
- minify ,
- misdirect ,
- moderationist ,
- mollify ,
- moorage ,
- mordacious ,
- mortify ,
- mow ,
- mown ,
- muffle ,
- muscle contraction ,
- muscular contraction ,
- nanus ,
- narrowing ,
- neuter ,
- newspaper clipping ,
- nippy ,
- obstructive ,
- oppress ,
- overcome ,
- overmaster ,
- overshadow ,
- overtake ,
- overtaking ,
- overwhelm ,
- palliate ,
- pare down ,
- pass ,
- passage ,
- passementerie ,
- passing game ,
- passing play ,
- peel ,
- perfunctory ,
- perturb ,
- pervert ,
- picket fence ,
- piercing ,
- precipitate ,
- press clipping ,
- press cutting ,
- press down ,
- price reduction ,
- profane ,
- prune ,
- pull down ,
- puncture ,
- pungent ,
- push aside ,
- push down ,
- qualify ,
- qualifying ,
- quash ,
- quench ,
- rarefy ,
- rationalise ,
- rationalize ,
- raw ,
- rebate ,
- recession ,
- reduced ,
- relaxation behavior ,
- relaxation method ,
- release ,
- relieve ,
- remission of sin ,
- remit ,
- remitment ,
- remittal ,
- remittance ,
- repose ,
- reprieve ,
- respite ,
- rest ,
- restrained ,
- restrict ,
- retardation ,
- retrograde ,
- reversive ,
- reverting ,
- sabotage ,
- scale down ,
- season ,
- set ,
- settle ,
- settling ,
- shadow ,
- shave ,
- sheer ,
- shirking ,
- shoot ,
- shoplifting ,
- short-lived ,
- shortened ,
- shrink ,
- sicken ,
- simplification ,
- sink ,
- sinking feeling ,
- skimming ,
- skin ,
- skip ,
- slack ,
- slack off ,
- slake ,
- slash ,
- slashed ,
- sleek ,
- slenderize ,
- slew ,
- slice ,
- slighting ,
- slim ,
- slim down ,
- slip ,
- slithering ,
- sliver ,
- slue ,
- slump ,
- smother ,
- snappy ,
- snip ,
- snub ,
- soften ,
- soldiering ,
- spay ,
- spoil ,
- squelch ,
- stabbing ,
- stamp down ,
- stay ,
- step down ,
- step-down ,
- stifle ,
- stinger ,
- stinging ,
- strangle ,
- streamlined ,
- stretch ,
- strike down ,
- subject ,
- subordinate ,
- subside ,
- subsidence ,
- subvert ,
- sullen ,
- superficial ,
- suppression ,
- surmount ,
- surpassingly ,
- suspension ,
- sweep over ,
- swerve ,
- swing ,
- switch off ,
- tailor ,
- take away ,
- take down ,
- take off ,
- tame ,
- tapered ,
- temper ,
- temperate ,
- thin ,
- thin out ,
- thinned ,
- thinning ,
- threatening ,
- tighten ,
- tiring ,
- tone down ,
- track ,
- transient ,
- transitory ,
- trend ,
- trim ,
- trim back ,
- trim down ,
- trimmed ,
- trouble ,
- turn down ,
- turn off ,
- turn out ,
- tying up ,
- uncheerful ,
- undercut ,
- undermine ,
- undervalue ,
- unhinge ,
- vary ,
- veer ,
- vitiate ,
- wasting away ,
- weakened ,
- wear away ,
- wearing ,
- wearing away ,
- wearying ,
- whelm ,
- whitening ,
- whittle ,
- whittle away ,
- write out .
- Abasing ,
- Accruing ,
- Allaying ,
- Bating ,
- Decaying ,
- Decreasingly ,
- Decrescent ,
- Degenerating ,
- Dequantitate ,
- Detracting ,
- Devolving ,
- Diminishingly ,
- Impairing ,
- Languishing ,
- Mitigating ,
- Modifying ,
- abate ,
- abatement ,
- abbreviate ,
- abbreviation ,
- abridgement ,
- abridgment ,
- adapt ,
- allargando ,
- alter ,
- amortizing ,
- amuse ,
- attenuate ,
- attenuation ,
- bate ,
- belittling ,
- calando ,
- come down ,
- condense ,
- contraction ,
- curtail ,
- curtailment ,
- cut ,
- cut down ,
- cutback ,
- deaden ,
- debase ,
- declining ,
- decrease ,
- decreased ,
- decrement ,
- decrescendo ,
- deflate ,
- degressive ,
- deliquescent ,
- deprave ,
- depreciate ,
- depreciative ,
- depreciatory ,
- depress ,
- descending ,
- deteriorating ,
- detract ,
- detractive ,
- devaluing ,
- diminish ,
- diminuendo ,
- diminution ,
- discount ,
- distract ,
- divert ,
- dwarf ,
- dwindle ,
- ebbing ,
- extenuate ,
- fading ,
- fall off ,
- falling ,
- flowing ,
- fritter away ,
- go down ,
- hindering ,
- impair ,
- issuing ,
- lessen ,
- lighten ,
- lower ,
- mitigate ,
- moderate ,
- moderating ,
- modification ,
- modify ,
- overpower ,
- paling ,
- pare ,
- passing ,
- petering out ,
- plummeting ,
- precipitating ,
- quell ,
- rallentando ,
- reduce ,
- reduction ,
- reductive ,
- regressive ,
- relaxation ,
- remission ,
- repress ,
- retrenchment ,
- retrogressive ,
- returning ,
- rit ,
- ritardando ,
- ritenuto ,
- shorten ,
- shrinkage ,
- slackening ,
- slacking ,
- slowing ,
- stopping ,
- subdue ,
- subjugate ,
- subtract ,
- suppress ,
- tapering off ,
- wane ,
- waning ,
- wasting ,
- weaken ,
- weakening ,
- whittle down ,
- winding down ,
- withering .
How to use "Decreasing" in context?
overall, the word "decreasing" is both a noun and an adjective. as an adjective, it means lessening in magnitude, amount, or number. as a noun, it means the act or process of decreasing.
Paraphrases for Decreasing:
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Equivalence
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Reverse Entailment
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Independent
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Adjective
decline, depressed, diminished, downward, lowering, reduced, reduction, Mitigating.
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Noun, singular or mass
decline, depletion, diminution, downsizing, dwindling, lowering, reduced, reduction.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
abating, affecting, ameliorating, backing, bringing, causing, closing, commuting, compromising, constraining, contracting, controlling, counting, cushioning, departing, depreciating, depressing, deteriorating, disappearing, dismantling, downsizing, dwindling, eroding, failing, fewer, fighting, filling, growing, heading, hindering, keeping, la, lagging, landing, leading, leaving, less, lightening, limiting, loosening, losing, lost, lowering, making, measuring, minors, narrowing, regressing, relaxing, resulting, retreating, returning, rising, saving, shifting, sinking, slashing, sliding, slipping, softening, speeding, subsiding, tackling, thinning, trend, trimming, turning, weakening, withdrawing, wondering, worsening, Arising, Attenuating, Avoiding, Carrying, Depleting, Destroying, Detracting, Discounting, Disembarking, Eliminating, Eradicating, Halving, Impairing, Mitigating, Overcoming, Plunging, Reining, Relieving, Removing, Retracting, Reversing, Transforming, Transporting, Phasing, curbing, Collapsing, Combating, Curtailing, Preventing, Stemming, undermining, underestimating, plummeting, streamlining, reconsidering, downloading, vermindering, <.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
minimizes, reductions.
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Adjective
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Exclusion
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Verb, gerund or present participle
increasing.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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Other Related
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Verb, gerund or present participle
lessening.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Homophones for Decreasing:
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not paid for
- Synonyms:
- unpaid.
