Synonyms for Shrinking:

• adj.

  •aseptic (adjective)
  • more purifying,
  • most purifying.
  •bashful (adjective)
  • confused,
  • reticent,
  • humble,
  • demure,
  • timorous,
  • self-effacing,
  • blushing,
  • constrained,
  • sheepish,
  • embarrassed,
  • reserved,
  • chary,
  • shamefaced,
  • silent,
  • self-conscious,
  • abashed,
  • Verecund,
  • backward.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • dastardly,
  • craven,
  • fainthearted,
  • gutless,
  • softer,
  • caitiff,
  • anxious,
  • jittery,
  • scared,
  • base,
  • yellow-bellied,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • pigeonhearted,
  • running scared,
  • worthless,
  • having the willies,
  • apprehensive,
  • cowering,
  • pusillanimous,
  • weak,
  • panicky,
  • Cowhearted,
  • afraid,
  • lacking courage,
  • paper tiger,
  • recreant,
  • lily-livered,
  • no guts,
  • weak-kneed,
  • spineless,
  • frightened,
  • dismayed.
  •coy (adjective)
  • evasive,
  • prudish,
  • flirtatious,
  • kittenish,
  • skittish,
  • coquettish.
  •diffident (adjective)
  • unobtrusive,
  • Flinching,
  • meek,
  • distrustful,
  • unsure,
  • Unpoised,
  • dubious,
  • suspicious,
  • mousy,
  • insecure,
  • Blenching,
  • unassuming,
  • doubtful,
  • reluctant.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • quivery,
  • chicken,
  • aghast,
  • shaky,
  • discomposed,
  • goose-bumpy,
  • cowardly,
  • intimidated,
  • nervy,
  • worried,
  • uneasy,
  • disturbed,
  • solicitous,
  • unmanly,
  • hesitant,
  • agitated,
  • nerveless,
  • tremulous,
  • phobic,
  • disquieted,
  • in a dither,
  • aflutter,
  • have cold feet,
  • perturbed,
  • chickenhearted,
  • jumpy,
  • tense.
  •irresolute (adjective)
  • halfhearted,
  • insipid,
  • volatile,
  • capricious,
  • yellow,
  • undependable,
  • unresolved,
  • tentative,
  • vacillating,
  • infirm,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • dillydallying,
  • erratic,
  • Flitting,
  • ambivalent,
  • uncertain,
  • double-minded,
  • impulsive,
  • fickle,
  • irresolute,
  • fly-by-night,
  • watery,
  • shifty,
  • indecisive,
  • inconsistent,
  • irresponsible,
  • undecided,
  • changeable.
  •lessening (adjective)
  • more declining,
  • most wasting,
  • more sagging,
  • more abating,
  • most narrowing,
  • waning,
  • more ebbing,
  • more slackening,
  • most plummeting,
  • most quieting,
  • most ebbing,
  • more subsiding,
  • more diminishing,
  • sub siding,
  • more dropping,
  • most dwindling,
  • most sagging,
  • most dropping,
  • most declining,
  • most lightening,
  • most depreciating,
  • most weakening,
  • more depreciating,
  • most subsiding,
  • most slumping,
  • more slowing,
  • more quieting,
  • slackening,
  • more lightening,
  • losing momentum,
  • more dwindling,
  • more moderating,
  • more weakening,
  • more slumping,
  • most slowing,
  • more wasting,
  • most moderating,
  • fading away,
  • sub-siding,
  • more narrowing,
  • more plummeting,
  • most slackening,
  • most abating,
  • most diminishing.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • ex citable,
  • up-tight,
  • high strung,
  • ex-citable,
  • more spooked,
  • most ruffled,
  • more unrestful,
  • up-set,
  • un-strung,
  • un strung,
  • more ruffled,
  • fidgety,
  • un restful,
  • more nervous,
  • unstrung,
  • dis-tressed,
  • most spooked,
  • most flustered,
  • up tight,
  • taut,
  • un-restful,
  • dis tressed,
  • highstrung,
  • more flustered,
  • most unrestful.
  •restrained (adjective)
  • in check,
  • on leash,
  • laid back,
  • unextreme,
  • in charge,
  • unexcessive,
  • under control,
  • on a leash,
  • corked up,
  • calm and collected,
  • under wraps.
  •retiring (adjective)
  • re-tiring,
  • more nongregarious,
  • recessive,
  • non gregarious,
  • most nongregarious,
  • re tiring,
  • more withdrawing,
  • un-sociable,
  • more reclusive,
  • most withdrawing.
  •shy (adjective)
  • dis-inclined,
  • un-effusive,
  • more uneager,
  • un-eager,
  • more introvert,
  • un-responsive,
  • most uneager,
  • un effusive,
  • dis inclined,
  • un-social,
  • in disposed,
  • in-disposed,
  • more uneffusive,
  • most uneffusive,
  • most introvert,
  • un eager,
  • introvert,
  • un social,
  • more unsocial,
  • most unsocial,
  • un responsive.
  •timid (adjective)
  • more bullied,
  • co-wed,
  • most daunted,
  • most badgered,
  • more badgered,
  • more trembling,
  • most cowed,
  • most bullied,
  • more browbeaten,
  • more milquetoast,
  • unnerved,
  • having cold feet,
  • more unnerved,
  • un-nerved,
  • co wed,
  • most trembling,
  • more cowed,
  • most unnerved,
  • most browbeaten,
  • most milquetoast,
  • more daunted,
  • sub missive,
  • un nerved.
  •unwilling (adjective)
  • uncheerful,
  • against the grain,
  • unready,
  • unaccommodating,
  • unwishful,
  • uninclined,
  • unobliging.
  •withdrawn (adjective)
  • more retreated,
  • in-different,
  • more uncurious,
  • most retreated,
  • un-concerned,
  • in different,
  • dis interested,
  • most uncompanionable,
  • re-mote,
  • in curious,
  • un forthcoming,
  • un interested,
  • un-curious,
  • with-drawn,
  • un curious,
  • un-forthcoming,
  • dis-interested,
  • in-curious,
  • re tired,
  • un companionable,
  • most unforthcoming,
  • un-companionable,
  • unforthcoming,
  • un-interested,
  • un-communicative,
  • re treated,
  • most uncurious,
  • with drawn,
  • un concerned,
  • re-treated,
  • more unforthcoming,
  • more uncompanionable.
  •withering (adjective)
  • more wilting,
  • most wilting.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • shrinking.
  •contraction (noun)
  • tensing,
  • abbreviation,
  • deflation,
  • evaporation,
  • narrowing,
  • dwindling,
  • Curtailing,
  • withdrawal,
  • constriction,
  • deflations,
  • recession,
  • abridgment,
  • withdrawing,
  • elision,
  • Abbreviating,
  • diminishing,
  • condensation,
  • receding,
  • cutting down,
  • elisions,
  • compression,
  • Evaporating,
  • Abridging,
  • deflating,
  • confining,
  • curtailment,
  • shrinkage,
  • Shrivelling,
  • Lopping,
  • decreasings,
  • omission,
  • decreasing,
  • Omitting,
  • tightening,
  • confinement,
  • drawing together.
  •lack (noun)
  • deprivation,
  • retrenchments,
  • shortfall,
  • scantiness,
  • slightness,
  • absence,
  • shortness,
  • destitution,
  • defect,
  • shortage,
  • exigency,
  • distress,
  • stint,
  • exiguity,
  • necessity,
  • want,
  • default,
  • inadequacy,
  • poverty,
  • dearth,
  • inferiority,
  • meagerness,
  • Insufficience,
  • abridgement,
  • depletion,
  • deficit,
  • privation,
  • scarcity,
  • retrenchment,
  • paucity,
  • shortcoming,
  • loss,
  • miss,
  • insufficiency.
  •objection (noun)
  • dis contents,
  • un-willingness,
  • dis-esteems,
  • dis pleasures,
  • counter argument,
  • counter arguments,
  • dis content,
  • dis esteem,
  • dis-inclination,
  • dis esteems,
  • dis-pleasure,
  • demurrals,
  • un willingness,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • dis-content,
  • un willingnesses,
  • dis-esteem,
  • dis-approvals,
  • dis approval,
  • dis pleasure,
  • counterarguments,
  • dis approbations,
  • dis-approbations,
  • dis inclinations,
  • dis-approval,
  • dis-approbation,
  • re monstrance,
  • counter-arguments,
  • dis inclination,
  • re monstrances,
  • dis approbation,
  • dis satisfactions,
  • re-monstrances,
  • dis-inclinations,
  • dis approvals,
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • un-willingnesses,
  • re-monstrance,
  • dis-contents,
  • dis-satisfaction,
  • dis satisfaction,
  • demurrings.
  •reducing (noun)
  • dis-counting,
  • paring downs,
  • contractings,
  • dis counting,
  • downsizings,
  • compressings,
  • marking downs,
  • dietings,
  • discountings.
  •stricture (noun)
  • tightnesses,
  • squeezings,
  • strangulations.

• v.

  •avoiding (verb)
  • ducking,
  • shirking,
  • declining,
  • Evading,
  • Abstaining,
  • Circumventing,
  • Skipping,
  • dodging,
  • sidestepping,
  • eluding,
  • Avoiding,
  • bypassing,
  • averting,
  • shunning,
  • Recoiling,
  • Escaping.
  •contracting (verb)
  • condensing,
  • squeezing.
  •decreasing (verb)
  • Depleting,
  • Concentrating,
  • eroding,
  • abating,
  • Truncating,
  • decrementing,
  • contracting,
  • subsiding,
  • lowering,
  • draining,
  • Compacting,
  • Deducting,
  • compressing,
  • shortening.
  •diminishing (verb)
  • paring,
  • Weeding,
  • lightening,
  • Bobbing,
  • Cropping,
  • trimming,
  • shaving,
  • pruning,
  • Culling,
  • shearing,
  • clipping,
  • downgrading,
  • nipping,
  • tapering,
  • minimizing.
  •flinching (verb)
  • blinking,
  • Wincing.
  •hesitating (verb)
  • faltering,
  • waiting,
  • hesitating,
  • balking,
  • Pausing,
  • Delaying,
  • halting.
  •losing (verb)
  • Forfeiting,
  • dropping,
  • dissolving,
  • Dissipating,
  • Debiting,
  • Divesting,
  • losing,
  • Misplacing,
  • exhausting,
  • Dispossessing.
  •shrink (verb)
  • crouch,
  • cower,
  • fail,
  • fall short,
  • withdraw,
  • constrict,
  • compress,
  • hang back,
  • retire,
  • condense,
  • slink,
  • waste,
  • wither,
  • grow smaller,
  • shudder,
  • wrinkle,
  • concentrate,
  • contract,
  • quail,
  • shorten,
  • narrow,
  • wince,
  • blench,
  • drop off,
  • weaken,
  • refuse,
  • huddle,
  • waste away,
  • shrivel,
  • retreat,
  • fall off,
  • draw back.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • Drying,
  • give way,
  • subdue,
  • trigger-happy,
  • allay,
  • frosty,
  • compunction,
  • shyness,
  • protest,
  • Parching,
  • flinch,
  • hourglass,
  • balky,
  • marasmus,
  • deplete,
  • scruple,
  • affected,
  • ebb,
  • slay,
  • in fear,
  • scrupulous,
  • restive,
  • impair,
  • growing,
  • demur,
  • eerie,
  • fall back,
  • condescend,
  • abatement,
  • impersonal,
  • subdued,
  • cold,
  • awkward,
  • coarctation,
  • modesty,
  • Qualmish,
  • Diminishment,
  • repressed,
  • Demurring,
  • cut,
  • give up,
  • recede,
  • rebound,
  • scrupulousness,
  • shrink,
  • expressionless,
  • retreating,
  • slacken,
  • standoff,
  • defalcation,
  • distant,
  • backwardness,
  • dwindle,
  • die away,
  • give in,
  • shoplifting,
  • Emaceration,
  • degrade,
  • relax,
  • compaction,
  • Startlish,
  • hesitancy,
  • impassive,
  • changing,
  • Shriveling,
  • subsidence,
  • deteriorate,
  • systole,
  • dwindle away,
  • shivery,
  • cut down,
  • fearsome,
  • guarded,
  • modest,
  • miniaturisation,
  • Searing,
  • tabes,
  • Diminishingly,
  • easing,
  • demean,
  • step back,
  • ungenial,
  • removed,
  • bring down,
  • coyness,
  • Tabefaction,
  • diminish,
  • reduce,
  • collapse,
  • soften,
  • trepidant,
  • averse,
  • decrement,
  • cowardice,
  • wane,
  • lessen,
  • falter,
  • taciturn,
  • fastidiousness,
  • scary,
  • depreciate,
  • drying up,
  • standoffish,
  • delicacy,
  • hesitance,
  • get back,
  • set back,
  • quiet,
  • declension,
  • chilly,
  • Stickling,
  • aloof,
  • back away,
  • shy of,
  • uncongenial,
  • squeamish,
  • Unaffable,
  • derogate,
  • ebbing,
  • descend,
  • abase,
  • debase,
  • offish,
  • cringe,
  • qualmishness,
  • forbidding,
  • skittery,
  • attenuation,
  • introverted,
  • unexpansive,
  • detached,
  • frigid,
  • dwindle down,
  • trembling,
  • deduct,
  • chilled,
  • tapering off,
  • miniaturization,
  • shrunk,
  • suppressed,
  • de-escalation,
  • subtraction,
  • discreet,
  • decline,
  • detract,
  • Shrank,
  • fear,
  • Scrupulosity,
  • abridge,
  • bate,
  • undemonstrative,
  • remote,
  • curtail,
  • dying,
  • hesitation,
  • neck,
  • inaccessible,
  • unapproachable,
  • rein back,
  • shrinks,
  • abate,
  • uncomfortable,
  • pause,
  • developing,
  • Decreasingly,
  • falling off,
  • sinking,
  • goosy,
  • kick,
  • minify,
  • die down,
  • Fearing,
  • ashamed,
  • drop,
  • cheapen,
  • bashfulness,
  • emaciation,
  • blank,
  • cringing,
  • reserve,
  • recoil,
  • diffidence,
  • deflate,
  • boggle,
  • cut back,
  • cool,
  • qualm,
  • turn back,
  • thinning,
  • shrunken,
  • extenuation,
  • icy,
  • stand back,
  • consumption,
  • Boggling,
  • wasting,
  • fading,
  • atrophy,
  • irresolution.

Paraphrases for Shrinking:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    shrinkage, shrink.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    diminution.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    contraction, constriction.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    downsizing, decline, stricture, downturn, cutting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    sinking, disappearing, withering, limitations, receding, Restraining, Impairing, declining, incurring, less, restricting, plummeting, Crumbling, eroding, subsiding, catching, ameliorating, regressing, Hampering, descending, dismantling, waning, undermining, Detracting, Relieving, Destroying, slashing, undercutting, slipping, confining, Mitigating, Collapsing, Depleting, falling, acquiring, thinning, creeping, Reversing, sliding, Diluting, squeezing, trimming, moderating, limiting, abating, Plunging, losing, Slumping, narrowing, retreating, curbing, Stemming, unwinding, speeding, Levelling, getting, downsizing, lessening, dwindling, cutting.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    narrowing, decrease, shortening, diminishing, lessening, dwindling, drop.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    minimising, Alleviating, dropping, shortening, diminishing.

Antonyms for Shrinking:

• adj.

  • bashful
    unabashed, unshy, confident.
  • cowardly
    courageous, unafraid, dauntless, brave, Unfearful, undaunted, daring.
  • coy
    immodest, impudent, aggressive, forward.
  • fearful
    Inapprehensive.
  • shrinking
    bold.

• n.

  • contraction
    enlargement, dilation, spread, expansion, amplification, increase, lengthening, extension.
  • lack
    lot, surplus, enough, extra, plethora, abundance, profusion, excess, plenty.

• v.

  • shrink
    expand, enlarge, take on, face, develop, meet, stretch, grow.

Homophones for Shrinking:

• serum sickness, siren song, Screaming Meemies, scrimshank.

Hypernym for Shrinking:

• n.

  • act
    miniaturisation, miniaturization.

Hyponym for Shrinking:

• n.

  • act
    reduction, step-down, decrease, diminution.