Synonyms for Withering:

• adj.

  •biting (adjective)
  • mordant.
  •critical (adjective)
  • calumniatory,
  • Exceptive,
  • Cavillous,
  • reproachful,
  • nit-picking.
  •dying (adjective)
  • at death's door,
  • giving up the ghost,
  • in extremis,
  • fated,
  • at end of rope,
  • on last leg,
  • one foot in grave.
  •overcritical (adjective)
  • over critical.
  •painful (adjective)
  • agonizing,
  • disagreeable,
  • crushing,
  • hurtful,
  • bothersome,
  • cutting,
  • arduous,
  • odious,
  • chafing,
  • acute,
  • severe,
  • annoying,
  • oppressive,
  • offensive,
  • horrendous,
  • harrowing,
  • burdensome,
  • sore,
  • miserable,
  • unpleasant,
  • aggravating,
  • Cramping,
  • irritating,
  • cruel,
  • distressful,
  • Gnawing,
  • tormenting,
  • smarting,
  • Besetting,
  • trying,
  • troublesome,
  • piercing,
  • woeful,
  • bitter,
  • stabbing,
  • grueling,
  • painful,
  • torturing,
  • wrenching,
  • stinging,
  • anguishing,
  • insufferable,
  • Torturing.,
  • throbbing,
  • grievous,
  • Irksome,
  • excruciating,
  • aching,
  • unbearable,
  • inflaming,
  • uncomfortable.
  •rotten (adjective)
  • dis-pleasing,
  • dis-eased,
  • un luckier,
  • un-lucky,
  • dis-satisfactory,
  • un-fortunate,
  • un sound,
  • un-sounder,
  • un-luckier,
  • un happy,
  • punker,
  • dis satisfactory,
  • un-acceptable,
  • bummest,
  • un sounder,
  • un happier,
  • sub standard,
  • un happiest,
  • un-pleasant,
  • un pleasant,
  • punkest,
  • un-soundest,
  • un luckiest,
  • in-adequate,
  • more bruised,
  • dis pleasing,
  • un satisfactory,
  • un lucky,
  • dis appointing,
  • un fortunate,
  • dis agreeable,
  • un-happy,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • sub-standard,
  • dis-appointing,
  • low grade,
  • un-sound,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • un acceptable,
  • dis eased,
  • most bruised,
  • lowgrade,
  • in adequate.
  •ruinous (adjective)
  • Wrackful.
  •scathing (adjective)
  • sulphurous,
  • more sulphurous,
  • most sulphurous.

• n.

  •
  • bleak,
  • curious,
  • black,
  • beatific,
  • bug-eyed,
  • dark,
  • darkly,
  • appealing,
  • absent,
  • brooding.
  •annihilating (noun)
  • annihilating.
  •annihilative (noun)
  • annihilative.
  •atrophy (noun)
  • atrophy.
  •blight (noun)
  • blot the landscape,
  • blot landscape.
  •contemptuous (noun)
  • contemptuous.
  •decay (noun)
  • de creases,
  • de-cadence,
  • de-generations,
  • perishings,
  • dis repair,
  • dis solutions,
  • dis-repair,
  • de-generation,
  • fadings,
  • dis-solutions,
  • dis-solution,
  • spoilations,
  • crumblings,
  • wastings,
  • de-cline,
  • de generations,
  • dis-integrations,
  • de cline,
  • dis integration,
  • de-cays,
  • rottings,
  • dyings,
  • de-compositions,
  • de clines,
  • de generation,
  • dis-integration,
  • dis solution,
  • de cay,
  • de-cadences,
  • de cadence,
  • de-creases,
  • dis integrations,
  • de-crease,
  • de-cay,
  • dis-repairs,
  • de cadences,
  • dis repairs,
  • de composition,
  • wasting aways,
  • de compositions,
  • de crease,
  • de cays,
  • de-composition,
  • de-clines.
  •destructive (noun)
  • destructive.
  •devastating (noun)
  • devastating.
  •disrespectful (noun)
  • disrespectful.
  •emaciation (noun)
  • undernourishment,
  • skinniness,
  • marasmus,
  • anorexia,
  • haggardness,
  • thinness,
  • tabes,
  • Boniness.
  •event (noun)
  • withering.
  •putrefaction (noun)
  • rottennesses.

• v.

  •contracting (verb)
  • shrinking,
  • Compacting,
  • contracting,
  • Abridging,
  • squeezing,
  • compressing,
  • condensing,
  • deflating,
  • Abbreviating.
  •deteriorating (verb)
  • slipping,
  • downgrading,
  • falling apart,
  • Slumping,
  • tergiversating,
  • regressing,
  • declining,
  • going downhill,
  • mouldering,
  • Decaying,
  • atrophying,
  • worsening,
  • getting worse,
  • Dilapidating,
  • sliding,
  • Collapsing,
  • reverting,
  • Putrefying,
  • relapsing,
  • deteriorating,
  • waning,
  • fading,
  • ebbing,
  • retrogressing,
  • Degenerating,
  • sinking,
  • lapsing,
  • wilting.
  •drying (verb)
  • Drying,
  • Catheterizing,
  • Vaporizing,
  • dehumidifying,
  • Blotting,
  • Evaporating,
  • emptying,
  • Desiccating,
  • swabbing,
  • dehydrating,
  • sucking dry,
  • pumping out,
  • mopping,
  • draining,
  • Stanching,
  • wringing out,
  • Parching,
  • Wiping.

• Other synonyms:

  •gauntness
  • emaciation.
  •Other relevant words:
  • flagging,
  • vanish,
  • dry,
  • decline,
  • passe,
  • Detractory,
  • deadly,
  • malign,
  • savage,
  • inexorable,
  • inclement,
  • witheringly,
  • frayed,
  • death-dealing,
  • cavalierly,
  • derogatory,
  • weathered,
  • derisive,
  • Languishing,
  • curse,
  • hot,
  • reproachfully,
  • condemnatory,
  • fatal,
  • absolute,
  • scorching,
  • degenerate,
  • murderous,
  • trenchant,
  • abusive,
  • caustic,
  • acerb,
  • nasty,
  • diminishing,
  • decadent,
  • pungent,
  • reduced,
  • sharpened,
  • battered,
  • cut,
  • fragmenting,
  • tragical,
  • calamitous,
  • failing,
  • denigrating,
  • stiff,
  • effete,
  • pointed,
  • arrogant,
  • exacting,
  • catastrophic,
  • Shriveling,
  • languish,
  • Hard-headed,
  • acerbate,
  • crushingly,
  • dehydration,
  • blazing,
  • acerbic,
  • slanderous,
  • Hard-shell,
  • seething,
  • rapier-like,
  • acidic,
  • disdainfully,
  • snooty,
  • Tabetic,
  • weather-beaten,
  • obdurate,
  • stern,
  • suicidal,
  • searching,
  • consuming,
  • dour,
  • disapprovingly,
  • Inquisitorially,
  • scathing,
  • belittling,
  • die,
  • demolishing,
  • extortionately,
  • tacky,
  • exigent,
  • Destroying,
  • snobby,
  • ruinous,
  • sere,
  • insolation,
  • improve,
  • carping,
  • virulent,
  • cataclysmic,
  • wilted,
  • Desolating,
  • fall,
  • censorious,
  • retrograde,
  • astringent,
  • extortionate,
  • spoiling,
  • disparagingly,
  • fastidious,
  • uncompromising,
  • supercilious,
  • inquisitorial,
  • onerous,
  • retrogressive,
  • hard,
  • cavalier,
  • acrimonious,
  • Crumbling,
  • mummification,
  • baneful,
  • corroding,
  • inflexible,
  • arbitrary,
  • tyrannical,
  • Searing,
  • secondhand,
  • despairingly,
  • cataclysmal,
  • acrid,
  • Blighting,
  • Aspersive,
  • rigid,
  • malevolent,
  • ravaging,
  • cliquish,
  • incisive,
  • drainage,
  • scornful,
  • air-drying,
  • dissolve,
  • falling off,
  • demolitionary,
  • waste,
  • austere,
  • snobbish,
  • hypercritical,
  • anhydration,
  • corrosive,
  • fierce,
  • hard-nosed,
  • acidulent,
  • falling,
  • disappear,
  • wasting,
  • overcritical,
  • curtail,
  • Precisian,
  • scurrilous,
  • attenuation,
  • pining,
  • contraction,
  • regressive,
  • shrivel,
  • shrinkage,
  • consumption,
  • acid,
  • Vandalic,
  • dehumidification,
  • internecine,
  • imperative,
  • superciliously,
  • ferocious,
  • Grindingly,
  • Fratricidal,
  • ruining,
  • thinning,
  • alleviate,
  • worse,
  • faded,
  • wither,
  • Subversionary,
  • razor-sharp,
  • fateful,
  • mildew,
  • stringent,
  • shaken,
  • penetrating,
  • unsparing,
  • wastage,
  • debased,
  • devastatingly,
  • disastrous,
  • opprobrious,
  • deprecatory,
  • sardonic,
  • razor-like,
  • bumptious,
  • wilt,
  • worn to rags,
  • defamatory,
  • mitigate,
  • disperse,
  • captious,
  • disdainful,
  • exclusive,
  • lessen,
  • abate,
  • harmful,
  • shrivel up,
  • relentless,
  • imperfect,
  • strict,
  • haughty,
  • calumnious,
  • Emaceration,
  • threadbare,
  • ruinously,
  • knife-edged,
  • dilapidated,
  • ennui,
  • Tabid,
  • sneering,
  • degenerative,
  • Doomful,
  • subversive,
  • clannish,
  • tyrannically,
  • keen,
  • drooping,
  • unimproved,
  • Castigatory,
  • self-destructive,
  • vituperative,
  • strait-laced,
  • sniffy,
  • subsiding,
  • tumbledown,
  • denunciatory,
  • Shrivelling,
  • wearily,
  • worn,
  • Disintegrating,
  • positive,
  • nihilistic,
  • vandalistic,
  • diminish,
  • harsh,
  • injured,
  • narrowing,
  • depreciative,
  • cumbrous,
  • Depredatory,
  • Sprung,
  • stale,
  • consumptive,
  • contumelious,
  • evaporation,
  • Deteriorated,
  • rigorous,
  • snotty,
  • allay,
  • shrink,
  • shabby,
  • tart,
  • Marcescent,
  • withers,
  • desiccation,
  • decreasing,
  • nihilist,
  • toplofty,
  • damning,
  • cumbersome,
  • satirical,
  • grinding,
  • altered,
  • withered,
  • coercive,
  • wasteful,
  • coming apart,
  • cracking,
  • vanishing,
  • acidulous,
  • iron-handed,
  • insulting,
  • Wallowing,
  • peremptory,
  • sarcastic,
  • burning,
  • cynically,
  • vitriolic,
  • cynical,
  • Mummifying,
  • sharp,
  • fade,
  • oppressively,
  • drying up,
  • assuage,
  • dwindling,
  • Perishing,
  • libellous,
  • depreciatory,
  • damaging.

Paraphrases for Withering:

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    shrinking, dwindling, declining, weakening.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    excruciating.

Antonyms for Withering:

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    respectful, constructive.

Hyponym for Withering:

• n.

  • event
    weakening.