What is another word for descent?
918 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ d_ɪ_s_ˈɛ_n_t], [ dɪsˈɛnt], [ dɪsˈɛnt]Table of Contents
Similar words for descent:- assault, attack (noun)
- attribute (noun)
- descent (noun)
- deterioration (noun)
- disappointment (noun)
- family tree (noun)
- header (noun)
- heritage (noun)
- line (noun)
- line of ancestry (noun)
- moving down; lowering (noun)
- parentage (noun)
- plunge (noun)
- decline
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Definition for Descent:
- A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
Synonyms for Descent:
n.
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- landslide,
- debasement,
- abasement,
- droop,
- lapse,
- rise,
- cadence,
- pounding,
- slump,
- precipitation,
- reduction,
- falling,
- sinking,
- degradation,
- counterattack,
- swoop,
- tanning,
- salvo.
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- ancestor,
- forebear,
- antecedents,
- incursion,
- advance,
- attack,
- forbear,
- Fathers,
- descendant,
- branch,
- assault.
- blood line,
- filiation,
- drop,
- extraction,
- blood,
- decline,
- declination,
- comedown,
- declension,
- line,
- fall,
- line of descent,
- parentage,
- declivity,
- origin,
- ancestry,
- downslope,
- pedigree,
- grade,
- stock,
- bloodline,
- slope,
- slip,
- plunge,
- lineage,
- slide.
- degradation,
- downfall,
- debasement,
- lapse,
- lessening,
- comedown,
- pathos,
- down,
- decadence,
- abasement,
- anticlimax,
- Downcome,
- slump,
- discomfiture,
- cadence.
- line.
- extraction,
- parentage,
- Family,
- pedigree,
- blood,
- genealogy,
- origin,
- relationship,
- lineage,
- heredity,
- family tree.
- hill,
- slip,
- tumble,
- drop,
- gradient,
- grade,
- falling,
- plummeting,
- dip,
- slide,
- incline,
- landslide,
- swoop,
- topple,
- declivity,
- droop,
- slope,
- inclination,
- downgrade,
- sinkage,
- prolapse,
- fall,
- Plunging,
- decline,
- drop-off,
- tailspin,
- coming down,
- settlement,
- header,
- declination,
- crash,
- declension,
- sinking,
- sag,
- coast,
- plunge,
- slant,
- precipitation.
Other synonyms:
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- lapse,
- downturn,
- regression,
- descendant,
- forebear,
- progenitor,
- downslide,
- glide,
- forefathers,
- downtrend,
- perversion,
- downswing,
- rot.
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- contamination,
- pratfall,
- wreckage,
- class,
- ancestor.
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- nosedive,
- aggravation.
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- landing.
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- downgrade.
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- down.
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- trip.
- falloff,
- cascade,
- cant,
- ancestor,
- bloodshed,
- fading,
- contrast,
- katabatic,
- course,
- chain reaction,
- buzz,
- Ancien Regime,
- breeding,
- charge,
- purchase,
- blitz,
- climbing,
- degressive,
- fall off,
- flat out,
- descending,
- stemma,
- incursion,
- invasion,
- telephone line,
- affiliation,
- spill,
- heirs,
- plummet,
- postposition,
- talus,
- slanting,
- setback,
- heredity,
- collapse,
- Fathers,
- glide,
- describe,
- stream,
- pitch,
- heritage,
- explicate,
- prolongation,
- kind,
- onrush,
- failure,
- comedown,
- channel,
- cable,
- forefathers,
- order of succession,
- origination,
- B-road,
- dividing line,
- stumble,
- parenthood,
- distinguish,
- failing,
- offspring,
- come,
- recurrence,
- undoing,
- job,
- sink,
- passage,
- nexus,
- fruit,
- Depravation,
- continuation,
- connection,
- rootage,
- kinship,
- acclivity,
- youngster,
- agate line,
- crepuscle,
- lowering,
- landslide,
- lift off,
- deteriorate,
- demotion,
- autumn,
- sinking,
- droop,
- rank,
- ebbing,
- shamefacedness,
- wreckage,
- removal,
- dynasty,
- common ancestry,
- nightfall,
- derogation,
- wane,
- deduce,
- root,
- condition,
- destruction,
- continuum,
- ducking,
- birthright,
- fall through,
- approach,
- biased,
- seismic source,
- irruption,
- lapse,
- mitigation,
- come to nothing,
- precipitation,
- line of merchandise,
- blitzkrieg,
- check,
- prolapse,
- launch,
- family tree,
- deflation,
- descendants,
- tip,
- tilt,
- decrease,
- impart,
- oblique motion,
- line of business,
- deign,
- image,
- rotation,
- invade,
- arrive,
- render,
- devaluation,
- decrement,
- debilitation,
- alliance,
- perversion,
- forbears,
- reversal,
- gift,
- caudex,
- recount,
- delineate,
- pounce,
- river source,
- crease,
- pin,
- inclined,
- crash,
- onslaught,
- product line,
- colored,
- pratfall,
- decadence,
- single file,
- shamefastness,
- downpour,
- mortification,
- explain,
- retrogression,
- subjunction,
- recession,
- kindred,
- twilight,
- gradation,
- flameout,
- angle,
- plenum,
- articulation,
- gravitation,
- burn,
- flow,
- chute,
- land,
- progress,
- picture,
- cadence,
- suffixation,
- fall dead,
- livestock,
- hollowness,
- aggravation,
- menage,
- downward,
- current,
- subside,
- transmission line,
- go down,
- dusk,
- sloping,
- evenfall,
- beginning,
- come in,
- trunk,
- climb,
- motherland,
- file,
- devastation,
- phylum,
- fall flat,
- bank line,
- concatenation,
- ramp,
- deterioration,
- throwback,
- fountain,
- burnout,
- fountainhead,
- cave in,
- posterity,
- depict,
- descend,
- railway line,
- reduction,
- tanning,
- inclination,
- parentage,
- coming after,
- rising,
- exemplify,
- inheritors,
- abasement,
- miss fire,
- ceiling,
- downturn,
- tune,
- weakening,
- production line,
- Procuration,
- line of work,
- downswing,
- relationship,
- attempt,
- Sternway,
- attack,
- blood line,
- rising ground,
- obtainment,
- tier,
- subsidence,
- embarrassment,
- well,
- onset,
- Depravedness,
- increase,
- Consecution,
- characterize,
- precede,
- credit line,
- sept,
- header,
- blow,
- waning,
- dying,
- gradient,
- neckcloth,
- downhill,
- moderation,
- discomfiture,
- queue,
- sinkage,
- artery,
- plummeting,
- Retrogradation,
- Detrusion,
- impact,
- decay,
- kids,
- tribe,
- dismount,
- class,
- thread,
- round,
- upgrade,
- drone,
- coloured,
- cycle,
- recite,
- depression,
- spectrum,
- waterfall,
- pink,
- concavity,
- contamination,
- dump,
- logical argument,
- skid,
- ancestors,
- downslope,
- roots,
- downfall,
- descendant,
- sag,
- monotone,
- generation,
- plop,
- debasement,
- Fathership,
- communication channel,
- cradle,
- roue,
- gunstock,
- Averseness,
- letdown,
- state,
- declination,
- Backset,
- incline,
- devolution,
- row,
- devolve,
- avenue,
- birthplace,
- progeny,
- ongoing,
- reflux,
- decadency,
- rip,
- posteriority,
- inroad,
- fatherhood,
- short letter,
- deduct,
- Descension,
- narrate,
- continuity,
- little ones,
- rail line,
- crinkle,
- airburst,
- antecedents,
- shot,
- assembly line,
- foundation,
- Downcome,
- disgrace,
- diminution,
- influence,
- ebb,
- seam,
- wrinkle,
- backflowing,
- argument,
- landing,
- phone line,
- alight,
- blood,
- filiation,
- business,
- raid,
- occupation,
- native soil,
- melodic line,
- ocellus,
- origin,
- ruin,
- genesis,
- trough,
- ignition,
- axial motion,
- catena,
- submergence,
- patrilineage,
- Defluxion,
- rising generation,
- line of credit,
- illustrate,
- tumble,
- submersion,
- assault,
- gore,
- gamut,
- determine,
- byroad,
- falling off,
- pathos,
- declension,
- byway,
- debacle,
- coast,
- stock certificate,
- spear side,
- series,
- Stirps,
- melodic phrase,
- order,
- demise,
- font,
- decide,
- settle,
- note,
- foray,
- broth,
- furrow,
- lessening,
- Recidivation,
- bevel,
- Rakehell,
- side,
- rocket launching,
- derive,
- flux,
- down,
- Consecutiveness,
- Windrow,
- limn,
- fund,
- self-abnegation,
- flight,
- aggression,
- hang fire,
- counterattack,
- great-grandchildren,
- kin,
- set,
- anticlimax,
- slippage,
- involution,
- Gloam,
- dip,
- procurement,
- Optimacy,
- soaring,
- branch,
- youngsters,
- foremothers,
- decline in quality,
- hang,
- Children,
- level,
- progression,
- Traject,
- bypass,
- advance,
- Sonship,
- periodicity,
- recidivism,
- routine,
- billet,
- profligate,
- communicate,
- variety,
- cataract,
- Heritance,
- range,
- air,
- cropper,
- stratum,
- tailspin,
- wellhead,
- notice,
- ruination,
- Gaining,
- dropping,
- humiliation,
- blacktop,
- expound,
- downslide,
- backing,
- treasures,
- Decaying,
- chain,
- extension,
- abatement,
- career,
- regression,
- slant,
- nativity,
- distaff side,
- quality,
- diagonal,
- rise,
- gillyflower,
- sequence,
- train,
- array,
- stoop,
- strike,
- mounting,
- dive,
- declivity,
- let down,
- free fall,
- inheritance,
- line of reasoning,
- enfeeblement,
- degeneracy,
- Setdown,
- subsiding,
- native land,
- etymology,
- surrender,
- immersion,
- pur sang,
- Ebb tide,
- primogeniture,
- mount,
- procession,
- condescend,
- forebear,
- downgrade,
- topple,
- salvo,
- new generation,
- personal credit line,
- deformation,
- reticulation,
- forward motion,
- pendulum,
- interpret,
- declining,
- bank,
- elucidate,
- construe,
- defeat,
- linage,
- scale,
- store,
- line of products,
- degeneration,
- Devexity,
- source,
- extraction,
- powder train,
- following,
- progenitor,
- rake,
- male line,
- house,
- spring,
- shoot,
- Degenerateness,
- Retrocession,
- forbear,
- Trajet,
- transmit,
- RAPIDS,
- heir,
- ties,
- nobility,
- Catenation,
- trajectory,
- bloodline,
- swoop,
- origins,
- going down,
- trend,
- hangdog look,
- collective noun,
- capitulation,
- settlement,
- regrets,
- downward slope,
- nosedive,
- eclipse,
- birth,
- forebears,
- effeteness,
- downtrend,
- Family,
- line of descent,
- progenitors,
- depreciation,
- kid,
- farm animal,
- shame,
- Chaining,
- hum,
- sweep,
- distinction,
- fatherland,
- boulevard,
- acquisition,
- predecessors,
- falling,
- hanging,
- string,
- stroke,
- gloaming,
- inventory,
- overthrow,
- inheritor,
- coming down,
- camber,
- slump,
- pipeline,
- de-escalation,
- native country,
- driftage,
- melody,
- offense,
- demarcation,
- drop-off,
- derivation,
- strain,
- portray,
- tree,
- rehearse,
- business line,
- succession,
- gentility,
- line,
- grandchildren,
- offensive,
- pounding,
- reverse,
- patriarchs,
- rush,
- ascending,
- dec,
- route,
- issue,
- report,
- inception,
- consanguinity,
- argumentation,
- drift,
- stem,
- Sons,
- swath,
- rot,
- Refluence,
- younglings,
- trip,
- dropoff,
- woodpeckers,
- affinity,
- beltway,
- successiveness,
- caste,
- degradation,
- hill,
- clan,
- crepuscule,
- mother,
- paternity,
- blast off,
- put-down,
- Plunging,
- self-abasement,
- patrimony,
- run,
- brood,
- seed,
- worsening,
- background.
Antonyms for Descent:
n.
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assault, attack
withdrawal, retreat.
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moving down; lowering
evenness, level, elevation, ascent, rise, ascension, upgrade, increase, improvement.
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Other antonyms:
hill, addition, upswing, revitalization, grade, development, rally, snapback, blossoming, advancement, defense, shield, headway, flowering, aggrandizement, recovery, ascent, accrual, posterity, heightening, Glacis, improvement, growth, guard, gradient, rejuvenation, heyday, restoration, tilt, rise, addendum, protection, upgrade, uprise, increase, renewal, resistance, lean, prime, successor, rake, progression, exaltation, seed, uphill, soaring, opposition, offspring, boost, progress, strengthening, progeny, betterment, defensive, comeback, acclivity, accretion, rising, Rejuvenescence, increment, flower, issue, security, augmentation, evolution, supplement, son, climb, pitch, inclination, recuperation, up, raise, advance, heir, upturn, incline, shelter, child, rehabilitation, flourishing, gain, invigoration, inheritor, enhancement.
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assault, attack
Other antonyms:
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n. t.
acclivity, accretion, accrual, addendum, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, ascension, ascent, augmentation, betterment, blossoming, boon, boost, child, climb, comeback, defense, defensive, development, elevation, enhancement, evenness, evolution, exaltation, flourishing, flower, flowering, gain, grade, gradient, growth, guard, headway, heightening, heir, heyday, hill, improvement, inclination, incline, increase, increment, inheritor, invigoration, issue, lean, level, offspring, opposition, pitch, posterity, prime, progeny, progress, progression, promotion, protection, raise, rake, rally, recovery, recuperation, rehabilitation, rejuvenation, renewal, resistance, restoration, retreat, revitalization, rise, rising, security, seed, shelter, shield, soaring, son, strengthening, success, successor, supplement, up, upgrade, uphill, uprise, upturn, Glacis, Rejuvenescence, snapback, upswing.
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