620 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ sˈɪŋkɪŋ], [ sˈɪŋkɪŋ], [ s_ˈɪ_ŋ_k_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for sinking:

• concave (adjective)
• degenerate (adjective)
• descendent (adjective)
• descending (adjective)
• down (adjective)
• dying (adjective)
• falling (adjective)
• lessening (adjective)
• low (adjective)
• mean (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• retrograde (adjective)
• depression (noun)
• descent (noun)
• destruction (noun)
• downturn (noun)
• ebb (noun)
• event (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• sag (noun)
• depressing (verb)
• descending (verb)
• deteriorating (verb)
• disappearing (verb)
• immersing (verb)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• catastrophe
• incurable
• other relevant words (noun)

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Homophones for sinking

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Hyponyms for sinking

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.
  • degenerate (adjective)
  • 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.
  • descendent (adjective)
  • nodding.
  • descending (adjective)
  • Plunging,
  • downward,
  • declining,
  • sliding.
  • down (adjective)
  • 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.
  • dying (adjective)
  • at death's door,
  • on last leg,
  • fated,
  • giving up the ghost,
  • one foot in grave,
  • in extremis,
  • at end of rope.
  • falling (adjective)
  • 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.
  • lessening (adjective)
  • 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.
  • low (adjective)
  • lower.
  • mean (adjective)
  • toucher,
  • snide,
  • hardnosed,
  • low-down dirty,
  • the lowest,
  • lowdown and dirty,
  • low-down and dirty,
  • liverish.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • falling,
  • the bottom,
  • to the bottom,
  • low,
  • descending,
  • lessening,
  • mean,
  • groundward,
  • Earthward,
  • flatitious,
  • health,
  • slipping,
  • down,
  • dying,
  • dying down,
  • bottomward,
  • decreasing,
  • infamous,
  • shriveling up,
  • overripe,
  • losing momentum,
  • concave,
  • degenerate,
  • over-ripe.
  • retrograde (adjective)
  • catabolic.

• n.

  •
  • going under.
  • depression (noun)
  • decrease,
  • depression,
  • debasement,
  • diminution,
  • attenuation.
  • descent (noun)
  • cave in,
  • sinkings,
  • cave-ins,
  • sinkage,
  • drop-off,
  • prolapse,
  • header,
  • cave-in,
  • plungings,
  • Prolapses,
  • fallings,
  • tailspin.
  • destruction (noun)
  • shipwreck.
  • downturn (noun)
  • downtick.
  • ebb (noun)
  • 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.
  • event (noun)
  • sinking.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • reflux,
  • petering out,
  • falloff,
  • waning,
  • Refluence,
  • low tide,
  • low water,
  • fading away,
  • downturn,
  • settlings,
  • outward flow,
  • slackening,
  • backflow,
  • downtrend,
  • fall-off,
  • descent,
  • sag,
  • Retrocession,
  • retroflux,
  • ebb.
  • sag (noun)
  • falloffs,
  • downtrends,
  • fall offs,
  • fall-offs.

• v.

  • depressing (verb)
  • Attenuating,
  • debasing,
  • depressing,
  • lowering.
  • descending (verb)
  • dropping,
  • settling,
  • falling down,
  • nose-diving,
  • coming down,
  • plummeting,
  • descendent,
  • toppling,
  • tumbling.
  • deteriorating (verb)
  • 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.
  • disappearing (verb)
  • vanishing,
  • fleeing,
  • departing,
  • melting,
  • Evaporating,
  • going,
  • dissolving,
  • flying,
  • disappearing,
  • hiding,
  • Evanescing.
  • immersing (verb)
  • Inundating,
  • submerging,
  • bathing,
  • Immersing,
  • dunking,
  • Drowning,
  • flooding,
  • Dipping,
  • dousing,
  • Engulfing,
  • Wallowing.
  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • deepening.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fall,
  • glide,
  • dip,
  • rise,
  • aging.
  •
  • wreck.
  • catastrophe
  • disaster.
  • incurable
  • moribund.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Sinking:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    amortization, demise, destruction, dive, diving.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    becoming, breaking, crashing, cutting, dating, declining, decreasing, descending, diminishing, dribble, dripping, driving, dumping, dwindling, dying, engaging, eroding, falling, flowing, jam, lapsing, laying, leaking, lowering, moving, narrowing, pouring, receding, reducing, resulting, retreating, rushing, shortening, shrinking, sliding, slipping, slowing, train, walking, waning, Alighting, Arising, Disembarking, Forming, Involving, Plunging, Collapsing, exiting.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    drowned, shipwreck, Drowning.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    accident, deflection, disaster, downfall, draught, loss, shipwreck, wreckage, Drowning.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    dropping, Drowning.

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.

  • event
    going under, immersion, submersion, subsidence, submerging, subsiding, foundering, settling, submergence.

Hyponym for Sinking:

• n.

  • event
    drop-off, decrease, descent, lessening.