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waning
| Main Entry: |
waning
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decreasing |
| Synonyms: | abatement, declension, declination, decrescence, diminution, flagging, recession |
| Antonyms: | waxing |
| Main Entry: | wane |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, lessen |
| Synonyms: | abate, atrophy, decline, decrease, die away, die down, die out, dim, draw to a close, drop, dwindle, ease off, ebb, fade, fade away, fail, fall, fall short, let up, moderate, peter out, relent, shrink, sink, slack off, slacken, subside, taper off, waste away, weaken, wind down, wither |
| Notes: | wane means to gradually decrease in strength or size, while wax means to increase in size or strength |
| Antonyms: | grow, increase, raise, rise |
| Main Entry: | aging |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | becoming older |
| Synonyms: | crumbling, declining, developing, fading, fermenting, getting along, getting on, maturing, mellowing, senescent, slumping, stale, waning, wearing out |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lessening |
| Synonyms: | abatement, backsliding, comedown, cropper, decay, decrepitude, degeneracy, degeneration, descent, deterioration, devolution, diminution, dissolution, dive, downfall, downgrade, downturn, drop, dwindling, ebb, ebbing, enfeeblement, failing, failure, fall, falling off, flop, lapse, on the skids, pratfall, recession, relapse, senility, skids, slump, wane, waning, weakening, worsening |
| Notes: | one declines (or accepts) something that is offered; one refuses (or agrees) to accept something offered |
| Antonyms: | betterment, improvement, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | decrease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | diminishing, lessening |
| Synonyms: | abatement, compression, condensation, constriction, contraction, cutback, decline, declining, decrescence, depression, diminution, discount, downturn, dwindling, ebb, falling off, loss, reduction, shrinkage, striction, subsidence, waning |
| Antonyms: | addition, development, enlargement, expansion, growth, increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | ebb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regression; decline |
| Synonyms: | abatement, backflow, decay, decrease, degeneration, depreciation, deterioration, diminution, drop, dwindling, fading away, flagging, going out, lessening, low tide, low water, outward flow, petering out, recession, refluence, reflux, retreat, retrocession, retroflux, shrinkage, sinking, slackening, subsidence, sweep, wane, waning, weakening, withdrawal |
| Antonyms: | flow, incline, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | lessening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decreasing |
| Synonyms: | abating, declining, depreciating, diminishing, dropping, dwindling, dying down, ebbing, ebbing, fading away, lightening, losing momentum, lowering, moderating, narrowing, plummeting, plunging, quieting, sagging, shrinking, shriveling up, sinking, slackening, slowing, slumping, softening, subsiding, waning, wasting, weakening, wearing down, wearing off |
| Main Entry: | flagging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | languid |
| Synonyms: | drooping, droopy, dwindling, fading, fatigued, languishing, languorous, leaden, lethargic, limp, listless, sagging, slacking, slumping, spiritless, tired, tiring, waning, weak, weakening |
| Main Entry: | abate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lessen, grow or cause to grow less |
| Synonyms: | allay, chill out, coast*, cool, cool it, decline, decrease, diminish, dull, dwindle, ebb, go with the flow, hang easy, hang loose, lay back, let go, let it all hang out, let up, mellow out, moderate, quell, recede, reduce, slacken, slow, subdue, subside, take it easy, taper, taper off, unlax, wane |
| Antonyms: | amplify, enhance, enlarge, extend, increase, intensify, magnify, prolong, revive, rise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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