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.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • extenuating,
  • Declinatory,
  • decreasing,
  • Decrescent,
  • waning.
  •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.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • Retrocession,
  • lowerings,
  • Compend,
  • fading away,
  • nose dive,
  • low tide,
  • backflow,
  • drop-off,
  • underestimations,
  • retroflux,
  • placations,
  • mollification,
  • header,
  • placation,
  • pratfall,
  • letup,
  • Breviaries,
  • appeasement,
  • fall,
  • slackening,
  • lessening,
  • propitiation,
  • downward slope,
  • scandal,
  • reducing,
  • pratfalls,
  • Tranquilization,
  • sinkings,
  • ebb,
  • breviary,
  • underestimation,
  • falls,
  • nosedive,
  • Refluence,
  • plummet,
  • reflux,
  • outward flow,
  • easings,
  • soothing,
  • marking down,
  • cut,
  • cuttings,
  • petering out,
  • downtrend,
  • deterioration,
  • disparagement,
  • paring down,
  • saving,
  • belt-tightening,
  • low water,
  • contraction.
  •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.
  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • reduction,
  • decrease.
  •subtracting (verb)
  • docking,
  • Subtracting,
  • Deleting,
  • Eliding.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • less and less,
  • remission.
  •drop-off
  • drop off.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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
    reduced, reducing.

• Independent

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

• Other Related

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

Homophones for Lessening:

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