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| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lessening |
| Synonyms: | abatement, comedown, decay, decrepitude, degeneracy, descent, deterioration, diminution, dissolution, dive, downfall, downgrade, downturn, drop, ebb, failing, failure, fall, flop, lapse, recession, relapse, senility, slump, wane, waning, backsliding, cropper, degeneration, devolution, dwindling, ebbing, enfeeblement, falling off, on the skids, pratfall, skids, 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: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | say no |
| Synonyms: | abjure, abstain, avoid, balk, beg to be excused, bypass, demur, deny, desist, disapprove, dismiss, don't buy, forbear, forgo, gainsay, nix*, not accept, not hear of, not think of, pass on, refrain, refuse, reject, renounce, reprobate, repudiate, send regrets, shy, spurn, turn down, turn thumbs down |
| Antonyms: | accept, say yes |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | downward change in value, position |
| Synonyms: | declivity, decrease, depression, descent, dip, downturn, drop, hill, incline, lapse, loss, lowering, pitch, sag, slide, slip, slope, slump, downslide, downswing, downtrend, drop-off, fall-off |
| Antonyms: | ascent, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lessen, become less |
| Synonyms: | abate, backslide, cheapen, decay, decrease, degenerate, depreciate, deteriorate, diminish, disintegrate, droop, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fail, fall, fall off, flag, languish, lapse, lower, pine, recede, relapse, retrograde, return, revert, rot, sag, settle, shrink, sink, slide, subside, wane, weaken, worsen, disimprove, go downhill, go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, lose value |
| Antonyms: | improve, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend |
| Synonyms: | dip, droop, drop, fall, go down, lower, sag, set, settle, sink, slant, slope |
| Antonyms: | ascend, rise, go up |
| Main Entry: | abate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lessen, grow or cause to grow less |
| Synonyms: | allay, chill out*, coast*, cool, decline, decrease, diminish, dull, dwindle, ebb, let up, moderate, quell, recede, reduce, slacken, slow, subdue, subside, taper, wane, cool it, go with the flow, hang easy, hang loose, lay back, let go, let it all hang out, mellow out, take it easy, taper off, unlax |
| Antonyms: | amplify, enhance, enlarge, extend, increase, intensify, magnify, prolong, revive, rise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abnegate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | renounce |
| Synonyms: | abstain, decline, forbear, forgo, refrain, reject, give up |
| Main Entry: | abstain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hold back from doing |
| Synonyms: | abjure, abnegate, avoid, cease, constrain, curb, decline, deny oneself, do without, eschew, evade, fast, fence-sit, forbear, forgo, give the go by, give up, go on the wagon, keep from, pass, pass up, quit, refrain, refuse, renounce, shun, sit on one's hands, sit on the fence, sit out, spurn, starve, stop, take the cure, take the pledge, withhold |
| Antonyms: | indulge, use |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become older |
| Synonyms: | decline, deteriorate, develop, get along, grow, mature, mellow, push, ripen, wane, grow feeble, grow old, grow up, put mileage on |
| Main Entry: | angle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shape formed by two lines meeting at a point |
| Synonyms: | bend, corner, crook, crotch, cusp, decline, divergence, dogleg, edge, elbow, flare, fork, incline, intersection, knee, nook, notch, point, slant, turn, twist, V, Y, flection, flexure, obliquity, turning |
| Main Entry: | anticlimax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ineffective conclusion |
| Synonyms: | bathos, comedown, decline, descent, disappointment, drop, letdown, slump |
| Antonyms: | climax |
| Main Entry: | atrophy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wasting away, disintegration |
| Synonyms: | decline, degeneracy, deterioration, diminution, downfall, downgrade, degeneration |
| Main Entry: | cheapen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish worth |
| Synonyms: | abase, belittle, corrupt, damage, debase, decline, decry, degrade, demean, denigrate, depreciate, derogate, devalue, discredit, disparage, downgrade, drop, fall, lower, mar, minimize, reduce, ruin, spoil, undervalue, write off, beat down, lose value, mark down, render worthless |
| Antonyms: | appreciate, enhance, increase, raise, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | comedown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | letdown, blow |
| Synonyms: | anticlimax, blow, collapse, comeuppance, crash, decline, defeat, descent, disappointment, discomfiture, dive, down, downfall, failure, fall, flop*, humiliation, reverse, ruin, setback, undoing, wreck, cropper, deflation, demotion, pratfall |
| Antonyms: | ascent, boon, boost, fortune, promotion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | come down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | worsen |
| Synonyms: | decline, decrease, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, fail, fall, reduce, suffer, go downhill |
| Antonyms: | boost, improve |
| Main Entry: | contract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | condense |
| Synonyms: | abate, abbreviate, abridge, clench, compress, confine, constrict, consume, curtail, decline, decrease, deflate, dwindle, ebb, edit, epitomize, evaporate, fall off, lessen, lose, narrow, omit, purse, recede, reduce, shrink, shrivel, subside, take in, tighten, wane, waste, weaken, wither, wrinkle, become smaller, draw in, fall away, grow less, syncopate |
| Antonyms: | amplify, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, increase, lengthen, spread, stretch |
| Main Entry: | contract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | catch disease |
| Synonyms: | acquire, afflict, be afflicted with, be ill with, become infected with, bring on, cause, come down with, decline, derange, develop, disorder, fall, fall victim to, get, go down with, incur, indispose, induce, obtain, sicken, sink, succumb to, take, take one's death, upset, weaken |
| Antonyms: | give |
| Main Entry: | crack up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break down mentally |
| Synonyms: | collapse, decline, derange, deteriorate, fail, flip out*, freak out*, go crazy, go to pieces*, sicken, become demented, become psychotic, blow a fuse, come apart at seams, go bonkers, go nuts, go off deep end, go off rocker, go out of mind, have breakdown, schizz out |
| Antonyms: | be calm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cutback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decrease |
| Synonyms: | abatement, curtailment, decline, economy, lessening, lowering, reduction, reversal, belt-tightening, decrement |
| Antonyms: | increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | decadence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perversion; deterioration of morality |
| Synonyms: | corruption, debasement, decay, decline, degeneracy, degradation, dissipation, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, evil, excess, fall, incontinence, intemperance, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, declension, degeneration, devolution, gluttony, licentiousness, regression, sensuality, sybaritism |
| Antonyms: | humility, morality |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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