What is another word for sinking?
575 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ sˈɪŋkɪŋ], [ sˈɪŋkɪŋ], [ s_ˈɪ_ŋ_k_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for sinking:- concave (adjective)
- degenerate (adjective)
- descendent (adjective)
- descending (adjective)
- down (adjective)
- dying (adjective)
- falling (adjective)
- lessening (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- retrograde (adjective)
- depression (noun)
- descent (noun)
- destruction (noun)
- downturn (noun)
- ebb (noun)
- event (noun)
- sag (noun)
- depressing (verb)
- descending (verb)
- deteriorating (verb)
- disappearing (verb)
- immersing (verb)
- other synonyms
- catastrophe
- incurable
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Sinking:
adj.
•concave (adjective)- more dented,
- Cupped,
- incurved,
- incurvate,
- most hollowed,
- in dented,
- most scooped,
- Bi-Concave,
- most incurved,
- more scooped,
- in-curved,
- most biconcave,
- more incurvated,
- biconcave,
- bi concave,
- dimpled,
- Incurvated,
- most incurvated,
- more cupped,
- more incurved,
- most incurvate,
- more excavated,
- more hollowed,
- more dimpled,
- most cupped,
- most dimpled,
- more biconcave,
- more sagging,
- most sagging,
- most excavated,
- in curved,
- in-dented,
- more incurvate,
- most dented.
- in-famous,
- de cadent,
- un healthier,
- most worsen,
- de-based,
- dis solute,
- un-healthier,
- de graded,
- un healthy,
- more overripe,
- de-cadent,
- most flatitious,
- dis-solute,
- most degenerated,
- de-generate,
- more flatitious,
- un-healthy,
- in famous,
- more vitiated,
- un healthiest,
- de generated,
- more degenerated,
- un-healthiest,
- over ripe,
- most overripe,
- de based,
- de generate,
- de-graded,
- more worsen,
- de-generated,
- most demeaned,
- more demeaned,
- most vitiated.
- more slumping,
- more nether,
- more downgrade,
- more underneath,
- de-pressed,
- more earthward,
- most cascading,
- most groundward,
- most underneath,
- more gravitating,
- more precipitating,
- most downgrade,
- de pressed,
- most nether,
- more cascading,
- most under,
- most declining,
- most slumping,
- most sliding,
- more groundward,
- most gravitating,
- most slipping,
- to bottom,
- more under,
- more sliding,
- more declining,
- more dropping,
- more bottomward,
- most bottomward,
- under neath,
- most earthward,
- most precipitating,
- most dropping,
- more slipping,
- under-neath.
- at death's door,
- on last leg,
- fated,
- giving up the ghost,
- one foot in grave,
- in extremis,
- at end of rope.
- more weakening,
- sub-siding,
- more settling,
- most diminishing,
- most settling,
- more subsiding,
- more toppling,
- more decreasing,
- more abating,
- most collapsing,
- most weakening,
- most decreasing,
- de creasing,
- most toppling,
- sub siding,
- de-creasing,
- most abating,
- most subsiding,
- more diminishing,
- more collapsing.
- more narrowing,
- most slackening,
- most moderating,
- more slowing,
- most depreciating,
- most wasting,
- more depreciating,
- most lightening,
- more moderating,
- more quieting,
- most plummeting,
- more slackening,
- more dwindling,
- most narrowing,
- most quieting,
- more lightening,
- more plummeting,
- most dwindling,
- most slowing,
- more wasting.
n.
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- going under.
- cave in,
- sinkings,
- cave-ins,
- sinkage,
- drop-off,
- prolapse,
- header,
- cave-in,
- plungings,
- Prolapses,
- fallings,
- tailspin.
- low waters,
- de cays,
- de-creases,
- de generation,
- refluxes,
- retro-cessions,
- de cay,
- de-generations,
- dwindlings,
- de generations,
- de-crease,
- re flux,
- re-flux,
- retro-fluxes,
- de creases,
- retrocessions,
- outward flows,
- retrofluxes,
- petering outs,
- weakenings,
- re fluxes,
- retro fluxes,
- retro flux,
- re cessions,
- refluences,
- going outs,
- de crease,
- de-cays,
- retro-flux,
- de-generation,
- re cession,
- re-cessions,
- fading aways,
- re-fluxes,
- retro-cession,
- retro cessions,
- backflows,
- de-cay,
- re-cession,
- retro cession,
- flaggings.
v.
•depressing (verb) •descending (verb)- dropping,
- settling,
- falling down,
- nose-diving,
- coming down,
- plummeting,
- descendent,
- toppling,
- tumbling.
- Decaying,
- retrogressing,
- tergiversating,
- Degenerating,
- wilting,
- lapsing,
- Dilapidating,
- going downhill,
- Collapsing,
- getting worse,
- ebbing,
- mouldering,
- withering,
- worsening,
- Putrefying,
- falling apart,
- deteriorating,
- fading,
- atrophying,
- Slumping,
- regressing,
- relapsing,
- reverting,
- downgrading.
Other synonyms:
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- wreck.
- reducing,
- wrecking,
- Sternway,
- thinking,
- receding,
- Shriveling,
- jumpy,
- inundate,
- drifting,
- incapable of life,
- drown,
- slack,
- common,
- sloping,
- in articulo mortis,
- descendant,
- remission,
- submersion,
- imagine,
- lessen,
- flowing,
- dig,
- ducking,
- anxious,
- Detrusion,
- nonviable,
- grounding,
- back-flowing,
- career,
- failure,
- advance,
- rising,
- run,
- detract,
- excavation,
- senescent,
- deduct,
- Gyratory,
- hopeless,
- Prosternation,
- burial,
- dispirited,
- settlement,
- humble,
- tap,
- oblique motion,
- deterioration,
- uneasy,
- drooping,
- given up,
- collapse,
- gloomy,
- axial,
- driftage,
- teem,
- rushing,
- loss,
- getting on,
- diminishing,
- mounting,
- progress,
- foundering,
- doting,
- interrupt,
- low spirits,
- backing,
- inferior,
- come,
- despairing,
- deciduous,
- profound,
- Levelling,
- abate,
- effete,
- digging,
- diminish,
- intermit,
- progressive,
- abatement,
- running,
- de-escalation,
- ancient,
- fretful,
- nervous,
- devastation,
- draining,
- expiring,
- cast,
- rush,
- intense,
- intensity,
- retrogressive,
- Traject,
- regression,
- Engulfment,
- cracking,
- downhill,
- pour,
- Tunneling,
- conceive,
- bonds,
- curtail,
- degradation,
- slide,
- pining,
- apprehensive,
- reduction,
- slump,
- jittery,
- concavity,
- weakening,
- flight,
- drift,
- streaming,
- drain away,
- retreating,
- ongoing,
- overwhelm,
- immerse,
- dullness,
- razing,
- flagging,
- bad,
- run out,
- flow,
- forlorn,
- tottering,
- basin,
- heavy-laden,
- go under,
- dejected,
- tumbledown,
- Crumbling,
- soaring,
- Marcescent,
- setting,
- fail,
- Downfalling,
- unquiet,
- queasy,
- Credit mobilier,
- way,
- set,
- disabling,
- obliteration,
- wane,
- deep,
- demotion,
- blue,
- rotary,
- baptism,
- drilling,
- despondency,
- probing,
- Tabetic,
- rotational,
- important,
- go down,
- failing,
- back,
- cut,
- inactivity,
- subsiding,
- sunk,
- tense,
- sousing,
- gyrational,
- dwindling,
- imply,
- stricken,
- slipping away,
- dolorous,
- wasting,
- slanting,
- Disintegrating,
- pour out,
- subside,
- disablement,
- corrupt,
- backward,
- rotatory,
- ascent,
- ascending,
- Decurrent,
- submergence,
- axial motion,
- growing old,
- melancholy,
- souse,
- allay,
- faltering,
- destruction,
- trend,
- climbing,
- desolate,
- addicted to,
- relapse,
- retiring,
- immersion,
- sink,
- droop,
- declivitous,
- fluent,
- subsidise,
- despicable,
- mining,
- shrinking,
- upward,
- tearing down,
- capsize,
- miserable,
- demolishing,
- mournful,
- forward motion,
- doleful,
- Languishing,
- retrograde,
- depressed,
- fragmenting,
- instances,
- angular motion,
- cesspit,
- done for,
- reflowing,
- capsizing,
- commotion,
- shaky,
- engulf,
- stocks,
- bottomless,
- gentle,
- demolition,
- Trajet,
- backflowing,
- think,
- retrogression,
- assuage,
- flux,
- sinking feeling,
- public funds,
- current,
- heavy,
- sideward,
- coming apart,
- submerge,
- dejectedness,
- course,
- flow off,
- passing,
- inundation,
- sagging,
- downcast,
- hollowness,
- Refluent,
- decadent,
- degeneration,
- woeful,
- declension,
- degressive,
- passage,
- stream,
- alleviate,
- on one's deathbed,
- subsidence,
- connote,
- heaviness of heart,
- terminal,
- abasement,
- immergence,
- backward motion,
- regressive,
- douse,
- duck,
- decline,
- dejection,
- radial motion,
- onrush,
- drop.
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
dive, diving, demise, destruction, amortization.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
shrinking, diminishing, Disembarking, decreasing, declining, receding, Collapsing, descending, slipping, sliding, dwindling, leaking, Plunging, engaging, shortening, dying, retreating, dribble, eroding, falling, dripping, Involving, lapsing, dumping, lowering, narrowing, moving, exiting, Alighting, laying, Arising, crashing, breaking, waning, reducing, becoming, pouring, slowing, train, walking, rushing, flowing, driving, jam, resulting, Forming, cutting, dating.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
Homophones for Sinking:
- smacking, sanguineous, swan song, squeamishness, sensuousness, singsong, swinging, sensing, swingeing, smoking, shining sumac, sneezing, sinuousness, sneakiness, shoemaking, smogginess, Sinkiang, skin senses, smooching, swing music, senescence, smashing, synonymousness, sun king, snogging, sanguineness, semiconscious, singing, smugness, sickeningness, sneaking, smocking, snugness.
Hypernym for Sinking:
n.
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event
going under, immersion, submersion, subsidence, submerging, subsiding, foundering, settling, submergence.
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event