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declination - 15 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | declination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refusal |
| Synonyms: | decline, rejection, turndown, declining, regrets |
| Main Entry: | declination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration |
| Synonyms: | decadence, decay, decaying, declension, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, decadency, worsening |
| Main Entry: | denial |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dismissal, refusal of belief in |
| Synonyms: | cold shoulder*, contradiction, disapproval, disclaimer, dissent, nay, negation, negative, nix*, noncommittal, prohibition, rebuff, rebuttal, refutation, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, repulse, retraction, veto, abstaining, adjuration, brush-off, controversion, declination, disallowance, disavowal, dismissing, disproof, forswearing, gainsaying, no way, nonacceptance, protestation, refraining, refusing, refutal, rejecting, renegement, renouncement, repudiating, statement abnegation, turndown |
| Antonyms: | affirmation, agreement, approval, avowal, claim, corroboration, vouching |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deterioration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decay, degeneration |
| Synonyms: | abasement, adulteration, atrophy, corrosion, crumbling, debasement, decadence, decaying, decline, decomposition, degradation, depreciation, descent, dilapidation, disintegration, dislocation, disrepair, downfall, downgrade, downturn, drop, fall, lapse, lessening, perversion, retrogression, rotting, ruin, slump, declension, declination, degringolade, devaluation, spoiling, vitiation, worsening |
| Antonyms: | betterment, building, construction, development, improvement |
| Main Entry: | objection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | argument, disagreement |
| Synonyms: | cavil, censure, challenge, criticism, demur, difficulty, disapproval, discontent, disinclination, dislike, displeasure, dissatisfaction, doubt, exception, grievance, gripe, hesitation, kick, niggle*, odium, opposition, protest, question, rejection, reluctance, remonstrance, scruple, shrinking, squawk*, stink*, counter-argument, declination, demurral, demurring, disapprobation, disesteem, protestation, remonstration, repugnancy, revilement, unwillingness |
| Antonyms: | acceptance, agreement, concurrence, consent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | refusal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | denial of responsibility; unwillingness |
| Synonyms: | abnegation, ban, choice, cold shoulder*, defiance, disapproval, disclaimer, disfavor, dissent, exclusion, forbidding, negation, nix*, no, noncompliance, option, pass*, prohibition, rebuff, refutation, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, repulse, repulsion, reversal, thumbs down, veto, withholding, writ, declension, declination, disallowance, disavowal, discountenancing, enjoinment, interdiction, knockback, nonacceptance, nonconsent, proscription, regrets, renouncement, turndown |
| Antonyms: | approval, grant, offer, sanction, ok |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slant, tilt |
| Synonyms: | bank, bend, bevel, bias, cant, declivity, descent, deviation, diagonal, downgrade, gradient, hill, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, pitch, ramp, rise, shelf, skew, swag, sway, tip, abruptness, declination, deflection, obliqueness, obliquity, rising ground, steepness |
| Antonyms: | evenness, level |
| Main Entry: | veto |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refusal of permission |
| Synonyms: | ban, blackball*, denial, embargo, interdict, negative, prohibition, declination, interdiction, nonconsent |
| Antonyms: | allowance, approval, permission, ratification, sanction, ok |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | declivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slope |
| Synonyms: | descent, inclination, declination |
| Main Entry: | depth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distance down or across |
| Synonyms: | base, bottom, draft, drop, expanse, extent, intensity, measure, measurement, pit, pitch, declination, deepness, fathomage, lower register, lowness, profoundness, profundity, remoteness, sounding |
| Antonyms: | height |
| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moving down; lowering |
| Synonyms: | coast, crash, decline, declivity, dip, downgrade, droop, drop, fall, falling, grade, gradient, hill, inclination, incline, landslide, plunge, precipitation, sag, settlement, sinking, slant, slide, slip, slope, swoop, topple, tumble, cave-in, coming down, declension, declination, drop-off, header, plummeting, plunging, prolapse, sinkage, tailspin |
| Antonyms: | ascension, ascent, elevation, increase, rise, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | slant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | angle, slope |
| Synonyms: | cant, diagonal, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, pitch, rake, ramp, tilt, camber, declination |
| Antonyms: | evenness, level |
| Main Entry: | degeneracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decay, deterioration |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, debasement, decline, decrease, downfall, downgrade, declination, depravation, devolution |
| Antonyms: | development, improvement |
| Main Entry: | departure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deviation from normal, expected |
| Synonyms: | aberration, change, difference, digression, divergence, diversion, innovation, last word*, latest thing*, novelty, rambling, shift, straying, variance, variation, veering, wandering, branching off, branching out, declination, deflection, in thing, new wrinkle, turning |
| Antonyms: | continuation, keeping, stay, abidance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | retrogression |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | deterioration |
| Synonyms: | decadence, decay, decline, declination, degeneration |
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