What is another word for receding?
184 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɹɪsˈiːdɪŋ], [ ɹɪsˈiːdɪŋ], [ ɹ_ɪ_s_ˈiː_d_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for receding:- recessive (adjective)
- retrograde (adjective)
- act (noun)
- backward (noun)
- contraction (noun)
- disappearance (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- vanishment (noun)
- decreasing (verb)
- receding (verb)
- relapsing (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Receding:
adj.
•recessive (adjective) •retrograde (adjective)n.
•act (noun) •backward (noun) •contraction (noun)- reducing,
- decreasings,
- tensing,
- elision,
- elisions,
- shrinking,
- deflation,
- deflations,
- drawing together.
v.
•decreasing (verb) •receding (verb) •relapsing (verb)Other synonyms:
•Other relevant words (noun):- retirement,
- angle,
- retract,
- cancel,
- corner,
- dawdling,
- reflex,
- Sequestering,
- Removing,
- cessation,
- reverting,
- holiday,
- retrogress,
- going out,
- give way,
- sinking,
- back off,
- give up,
- shrink,
- leave,
- secede,
- lagging,
- recedes,
- dropping,
- fall back,
- Adjourning,
- fading,
- hole,
- Dipping,
- retiring,
- pull away,
- retire,
- ebb,
- recessional,
- cower,
- descending,
- dying,
- retrogressing,
- intermission,
- flinch,
- respite,
- remove,
- Refluent,
- resilient,
- leave off,
- nook,
- crab-like,
- moving,
- unassuming,
- interruption,
- Sequestrating,
- decrease,
- recede,
- give in,
- depart from,
- backing,
- niche,
- cringe,
- postpone,
- ebbing,
- Waiving,
- give ground,
- Decaying,
- retrogressive,
- recess,
- ceding back,
- moving back,
- diminish,
- Recoiling,
- pull back,
- regrading,
- Misplacing,
- alcove,
- suffering,
- move back,
- retreat,
- vacation,
- declining,
- Flinching,
- abandon,
- recalling,
- retrograde,
- disappearing,
- rest,
- retraction,
- Retracting,
- Retrograding,
- Receded,
- disengage,
- returning,
- waive,
- balky,
- move away,
- adjourn,
- resign,
- waning,
- return,
- back away,
- step back,
- recidivating,
- draw,
- Reversing,
- adjournment,
- pause,
- recall,
- Recidivous,
- withdraw,
- Retractation,
- drop out,
- departing,
- Disengaging,
- unassertive,
- Resorting,
- Secluding,
- bend,
- missing,
- crawl,
- draw back,
- interval,
- bay,
- reactionary.
Paraphrases for Receding:
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Equivalence
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Verb, gerund or present participle
decreasing.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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Independent
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Verb, gerund or present participle
eroding, reconsidering, reducing, diminishing, retreating, dwindling, declining, withdrawing, Collapsing, shrinking, waning, dropping, Reversing, lowering, weakening, flooding, shortening, abating, sinking, curbing, lessening, narrowing, Slumping, falling, slowing, backing, easing, cutting.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Antonyms for Receding:
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p. pr. & vb. n.
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Other antonyms:
forward.
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Other antonyms:
Homophones for Receding:
- requisiteness, raggedness, reactance, residency, racketiness, rusting, recoding, resistance, ruggedness, rest mass, right wing, roasting, rigidness, rightness, residence, Rustiness, recasting, right-wing, ricketiness.
Hyponym for Receding:
n.
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act
withdrawal.
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act