Synonyms for Lessening:

• adj.

  •extenuating (adjective)
  • Justifying.
  •lessening (adjective)
  • Plunging,
  • sagging,
  • ebbing,
  • wearing down,
  • slowing,
  • losing momentum,
  • Slumping,
  • weakening,
  • dropping,
  • softening,
  • sinking,
  • plummeting,
  • Quieting,
  • declining,
  • narrowing,
  • wearing off,
  • shriveling up,
  • wasting.
  •waning (adjective)
  • de-crescent,
  • most abating,
  • more ebbing,
  • more decrescent,
  • more abating,
  • most ebbing,
  • most declinatory,
  • most decrescent,
  • de crescent,
  • more declinatory.

• n.

  •abridgement (noun)
  • digest,
  • diminution,
  • conspectus,
  • condensation,
  • brief,
  • compendium,
  • synopsis,
  • outline,
  • abbreviation,
  • cutting,
  • curtailment,
  • abstract,
  • Diminishment,
  • precis.
  •abridgment (noun)
  • compends.
  •appeasement (noun)
  • amends,
  • reconciliation,
  • moderation,
  • mitigation,
  • conciliation,
  • lulling,
  • peace offering,
  • concession,
  • assuagement,
  • Acceding,
  • settlement,
  • adjustment,
  • compromise,
  • reparation,
  • restoration,
  • Blunting,
  • quenching,
  • abatement,
  • solace,
  • quelling,
  • alleviation,
  • accommodation,
  • grant.
  •contraction (noun)
  • Evaporating,
  • Abbreviating,
  • tensing,
  • Shrivelling,
  • confining,
  • elisions,
  • Lopping,
  • constriction,
  • receding,
  • Curtailing,
  • drawing together,
  • abridgment,
  • condensing,
  • Abridging,
  • deflating,
  • confinement,
  • compression,
  • Omitting,
  • withdrawal,
  • withdrawing,
  • recession,
  • decreasings,
  • tightening,
  • deflation,
  • omission,
  • evaporation,
  • cutting down,
  • deflations,
  • elision,
  • shrinking.
  •cut (noun)
  • decrement,
  • cutback,
  • economy.
  •cutback (noun)
  • reversal.
  •decrement (noun)
  • subtraction.
  •deterioration (noun)
  • downturn,
  • debasement,
  • vitiation,
  • dilapidation,
  • atrophy,
  • drop,
  • downfall,
  • downgrade,
  • perversion,
  • worsening,
  • disintegration,
  • Decaying,
  • decadence,
  • declension,
  • abasement,
  • adulteration,
  • lapse,
  • devaluation,
  • disrepair,
  • depreciation,
  • decline,
  • decomposition,
  • corrosion,
  • descent,
  • slump,
  • retrogression,
  • spoiling,
  • declination,
  • Crumbling,
  • degringolade,
  • dislocation,
  • ruin,
  • degradation,
  • rotting.
  •disparagement (noun)
  • condemnation,
  • ridicule,
  • impairment,
  • disdain,
  • derision,
  • discredit,
  • lie,
  • denunciation,
  • contempt,
  • belittlement,
  • tale,
  • calumny,
  • contumely,
  • scorn,
  • slander,
  • backstabbing,
  • reproach,
  • aspersion,
  • Backbiting,
  • prejudice,
  • censure,
  • blame,
  • derogation.
  •ebb (noun)
  • re-treats,
  • retro fluxes,
  • refluences,
  • de-generation,
  • outward flows,
  • re fluxes,
  • backflows,
  • retro-cession,
  • retro-flux,
  • retrocessions,
  • petering outs,
  • de-generations,
  • retro flux,
  • refluxes,
  • re flux,
  • de cays,
  • de-cay,
  • retro cession,
  • going outs,
  • weakenings,
  • de cay,
  • re treats,
  • re-flux,
  • flaggings,
  • de generation,
  • retro-cessions,
  • retro cessions,
  • retro-fluxes,
  • retrofluxes,
  • de-cays,
  • de generations,
  • re-fluxes,
  • fading aways,
  • low waters,
  • re-treat.
  •fall (noun)
  • in-clines,
  • downward slopes,
  • nose dives,
  • in clines,
  • in-cline,
  • falling offs,
  • in cline.
  •lessening (noun)
  • discount.
  •letup (noun)
  • let-up.
  •nosedive (noun)
  • drop offs,
  • downtrends,
  • drop-offs.
  •reducing (noun)
  • discountings,
  • dis counting,
  • paring downs,
  • dis-counting,
  • compressings,
  • marking downs,
  • downsizings,
  • dietings,
  • contractings.
  •subtraction (noun)
  • deduction,
  • abridgement,
  • deletion.

• v.

  •alleviating (verb)
  • Alleviating,
  • Allaying,
  • Palliating,
  • easing,
  • Relieving,
  • Mitigating,
  • moderating,
  • Assuaging.
  •decrease (verb)
  • shrinkage.
  •decreasing (verb)
  • Deducting,
  • dwindling,
  • subsiding,
  • Compacting,
  • draining,
  • Concentrating,
  • Depleting,
  • decrementing,
  • abating,
  • eroding,
  • compressing,
  • contracting,
  • dying down,
  • diminishing,
  • Truncating,
  • shortening,
  • lowering.
  •detracting (verb)
  • disparaging,
  • Detracting,
  • Derogating,
  • Defaming,
  • Abrading,
  • casting aspersion,
  • Discounting,
  • Maligning,
  • depreciating,
  • Decrying.
  •diminishing (verb)
  • Bobbing,
  • Cropping,
  • minimizing,
  • downgrading,
  • clipping,
  • nipping,
  • Weeding,
  • tapering,
  • pruning,
  • lightening,
  • shearing,
  • shaving,
  • paring,
  • trimming,
  • Culling.
  •lessen (verb)
  • slack up,
  • crop,
  • wind down,
  • cut back,
  • downsize,
  • truncate,
  • dilute,
  • de-escalate,
  • dwindle,
  • narrow,
  • weaken,
  • moderate,
  • lighten,
  • impair,
  • grow less,
  • taper off,
  • mitigate,
  • minimize,
  • minify,
  • slow down,
  • thin,
  • drain,
  • soft-pedal,
  • erode,
  • become smaller,
  • take the bite out,
  • taper,
  • abridge,
  • diminish,
  • attenuate,
  • close,
  • roll back,
  • abate,
  • slacken,
  • amputate,
  • curtail,
  • take the edge off,
  • clip,
  • degrade,
  • ease,
  • die down,
  • take the sting out,
  • contract,
  • shrink.
  •lightening (verb)
  • unloading.
  •subtracting (verb)
  • docking,
  • Subtracting,
  • Deleting,
  • Eliding.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • less and less,
  • remission.
  •drop-off
  • drop off.
  •Other relevant words:
  • relaxing,
  • Comminution,
  • degeneration,
  • precipitating,
  • depressing,
  • mellowly,
  • injury,
  • relief,
  • belittling,
  • cushioning,
  • deliquescent,
  • dwindling away,
  • degrading,
  • enfeeblement,
  • settling,
  • extraction,
  • neck,
  • anesthesia,
  • truncation,
  • coarctation,
  • reductive,
  • decadently,
  • miniaturization,
  • pacification,
  • emaciation,
  • wane,
  • inactivity,
  • deadening,
  • precipitously,
  • Accruing,
  • time off,
  • fall off,
  • Bating,
  • easement,
  • Damping,
  • shorten,
  • hesitation,
  • calming,
  • Decreasingly,
  • diminuendo,
  • lopsidedly,
  • undermining,
  • droop,
  • chastening,
  • Dulling,
  • quash,
  • precipice,
  • relaxation,
  • detract,
  • Devolving,
  • withering,
  • modification,
  • loosening,
  • break,
  • go down,
  • falloff,
  • intermission,
  • cliff,
  • Demulsion,
  • dying off,
  • consumption,
  • cooling,
  • falling off,
  • stopping,
  • decrescence,
  • step-down,
  • drooping,
  • decrescendo,
  • simplicity,
  • decay,
  • modulation,
  • Mollifying,
  • subsidence,
  • Flowingly,
  • bluff,
  • Subduing,
  • subjugate,
  • depress,
  • tapering off,
  • deflate,
  • flaw,
  • winding down,
  • deaden,
  • Attenuating,
  • ease up,
  • faltering,
  • vanishingly,
  • remedy,
  • Dulcification,
  • flagging,
  • slack,
  • depletion,
  • Languishment,
  • issuing,
  • surcease,
  • hourglass,
  • passing,
  • deprave,
  • detraction,
  • Hushing,
  • Contractive,
  • reduce,
  • quietening,
  • Ceasing,
  • Languishing,
  • interruption,
  • fade out,
  • de-escalation,
  • stop,
  • cessation,
  • descending,
  • lull,
  • marasmus,
  • dying,
  • analgesia,
  • retrenchment,
  • modify,
  • flowing,
  • undervaluing,
  • debilitation,
  • compaction,
  • collapse,
  • alter,
  • scaling down,
  • sag,
  • Marring,
  • depression,
  • Tabefaction,
  • adapt,
  • slacking,
  • dispiritedly,
  • abbreviate,
  • tempering,
  • imperfection,
  • qualifying,
  • anesthetizing,
  • cease,
  • sinkage,
  • attrition,
  • extenuation,
  • salving,
  • returning,
  • divert,
  • dampening,
  • bate,
  • lessen,
  • attenuation,
  • slide,
  • depreciate,
  • quell,
  • Detractingly,
  • dip,
  • systole,
  • amuse,
  • palliation,
  • repress,
  • suppress,
  • defalcation,
  • cut down,
  • Allayment,
  • pare,
  • limiting,
  • pause,
  • damage,
  • Impairing,
  • retrogradely,
  • numbing,
  • shallowly,
  • casualty,
  • harm,
  • debase,
  • Failingly,
  • respite,
  • letdown,
  • suspension,
  • Retrenching,
  • lower,
  • fading,
  • Diminishingly,
  • retraction,
  • Subduement,
  • distract,
  • subdue,
  • leniency,
  • tabes,
  • falling.

Paraphrases for Lessening:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    decrease, diminishing, reduce.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    reducing, reduced.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    reduction, minimizing, reducing, mitigation, Mitigating, softening, dwindling, Relieving, downsizing, reduced, cutting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    minimising, lightening, ameliorating, dampening, streamlining, de-escalating, underestimating, liberalising, Assuaging, soothing, Attenuating, dismantling, constraining, hindering, undercutting, lower, Halving, Impairing, Levelling, Allaying, offsetting, waning, constricting, declining, Diluting, Reining, curbing, Removing, Depleting, disappearing, subsiding, relaxing, eroding, Detracting, redressing, Reversing, limiting, Transforming, speeding, receding, cushioning, moderating, countering, stretching, Collapsing, abating, compromising, Stemming, Remedying, straining, Mediating, offloading, commuting, Lifting, trimming, falling, dealing, Quieting, Smoothing, Dimming, dropping, thinning, keeping, lowering, reduction, weakening, minimizing, diminishing, Mitigating, narrowing, shrinking, softening, dwindling, shortening, Relieving, downsizing, cutting.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    less, easing, lowering, decreasing, alleviation, decline, weakening, diminution, relaxation, narrowing, attenuation, shrinking, Diminishment, shortening, commutation, abatement, relief, ease, drop, curtailment, amelioration, shrinkage, minimise.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Alleviating, easing, decreasing.

Homophones for Lessening:

• logginess, laxness, leishmaniasis, licking, lashing, Logomachy, like kings, luging, leucogenes, lagging, licensee, loginess, lacking, lusciousness, laughing jackass, lysogenize, losings, Lake Onega, lessing, locking, lysimachia, loosening, license, lushness, liking, laughing gas, lacing, Luckiness, likeness, lysimachus, leguminious, leaching, lousiness, legging, lissomeness, leguminosae, logging, lysogenic, looking, lacewing, ligneous, lysenko, loganiaceae, lignosae, lychnis, likening, lake nyasa, laconic, lozenge, lashings, logomach, leguminous, loch ness, loquaciousness, licencee, looseness, leishmaniosis, laziness, lawlessness, Leakiness, laughing, lichenes, lake seneca, licence.