Related Searches
on Ask.com
descending - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | descend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move down, lower a |
| Synonyms: | cascade, cataract, coast, collapse, crash, crouch, decline, dip, disembark, dismount, dive, dribble*, drop, fall, get down, get off, go down, gravitate, ground, incline, light, penetrate, pitch, plummet, plunge, set, settle, sink, slant, slide, slip, slope, slump, stoop, stumble, submerge, subside, swoop, toboggan, topple, trickle, trip, tumble, weep, cave in*, deplane, detrain, fall prostrate, lose balance, plop, prolapse, slough off |
| Antonyms: | ascend, increase, rise, go up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | descend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | condescend |
| Synonyms: | concede, degenerate, deteriorate, patronize, stoop, abase oneself, humble oneself, lower oneself |
| Main Entry: | descend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trace ancestry from; be passed or handed down |
| Synonyms: | arise, derive, issue, originate, proceed, spring |
| Main Entry: | descending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving down |
| Synonyms: | descendent, down, downward, sinking, declining |
| Main Entry: | downward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthward |
| Synonyms: | down, descending, downwards |
| Main Entry: | falling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dropping |
| Synonyms: | crumbling, lowering, sinking, tumbling, abating, collapsing, declining, decreasing, descending, diminishing, ebbing, plunging, settling, sliding, slipping, subsiding, toppling, tottering, weakening |
| Antonyms: | improving, increasing, rising |
| Main Entry: | down |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | below; physically lower |
| Synonyms: | depressed, downgrade, downhill, downward, falling, inferior, nether, sinking, subjacent, under, underneath, bottomward, cascading, declining, descending, dropping, earthward, gravitating, groundward, precipitating, sagging, sliding, slipping, slumping, to the bottom |
| Antonyms: | above, higher |
| Main Entry: | alight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | land |
| Synonyms: | come down, descend, disembark, dismount, get off, light, perch, settle, debark, touch down |
| Main Entry: | cascade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in a rush |
| Synonyms: | descend, disgorge, flood, gush, heave, overflow, pitch, plunge, pour, spew, spill, surge, throw up, tumble, vomit, spit up |
| 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: | condescend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stoop, humble oneself |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, accord, acquiesce, agree, bend, comply, concede, deign, descend, favor, grant, oblige, submit, vouchsafe, yield, be courteous, come down off high horse, degrade oneself, demean oneself, high hat, lower oneself, see fit, talk down to, toss a few crumbs, unbend |
| Antonyms: | rise above |
| Main Entry: | degenerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decay, deteriorate |
| Synonyms: | backslide, corrode, corrupt, decline, decrease, deprave, descend, disintegrate, fall off, go to pieces*, lapse, lessen, regress, retrogress, return, revert, rot, sink, slip, vitiate, worsen, come apart at seams, die on vine, disimprove, go downhill, go to the dogs |
| Notes: | to degenerate means 'to decline in value, move lower on a scale' but to deteriorate means 'to worsen, to become lowered, or be reduced in value'; degenerate pertains more to character and virtue while deteriorate is more about loss of strength or vitality |
| Antonyms: | develop, improve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | humble, humiliate |
| Synonyms: | abase, bad-mouth*, belittle, contemn, debase, decry, degrade, derogate, descend, despise, detract, disparage, lower, pan*, scorn, sink, stoop*, bemean, cast down, cut down to size, cut rate, dis, dump on, knock down*, poor-mouth |
| Antonyms: | boost, enhance, improve, upgrade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | derive from |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come from; arise |
| Synonyms: | descend, emanate, flow, head, issue, originate, proceed, rise, spring from, stem from |
| Main Entry: | deteriorate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decay, degenerate |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, alloy, break, corrode, corrupt, crumble, debase, debilitate, decline, decompose, degrade, deprave, depreciate, descend, disintegrate, ebb, fade, fail, fall apart, flag, go to pieces*, impair, injure, languish, lapse, lessen, lower, mar, pervert, regress, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sink, skid, slide, spoil, undermine, vitiate, weaken, worsen, be worse for wear, become worse, disimprove, go downhill, go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, lose it, lose quality, wear away |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, develop, improve, get better |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disintegrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall apart; reduce to pieces |
| Synonyms: | atomize, break up, crumble, decay, decline, decompose, degenerate, descend, detach, disband, disconnect, dismantle, disorganize, disperse, disunite, divide, molder, pulverize, putrefy, rot, separate, sever, shatter, sink, splinter, spoil, taint, turn, wither, worsen, break apart, break down, come apart, deliquesce, dilapidate, disimprove, fade away, fall to pieces, take apart, turn to dust, wash away, wash out |
| Antonyms: | combine, meld, unite |
| Main Entry: | dismount |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get off something higher |
| Synonyms: | alight, descend, disembark, get down, light, debark, deplane, detrain |
| Antonyms: | get up, mount |
| Main Entry: | drop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in globules |
| Synonyms: | bead, bleed, descend, distill, drain, dribble, drip, emanate, hail, leak, ooze, percolate, precipitate, seep, snow, splash, trickle, trill |
| Antonyms: | downpour, pour |
| Main Entry: | drop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | let go of; fall |
| Synonyms: | abandon, bring down, collapse, decline, depress, descend, dive, duck, dump, fell, floor, flop, go down, ground, keel over*, knock, loosen, lower, pitch, plummet, plump, plunge, release, relinquish, shed, shoot, sink, slide, slip, slump, topple, tumble, unload, cave in, give up, nose-dive* |
| Antonyms: | ascend, mount, rise, take up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | get down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dismount |
| Synonyms: | alight, bring down, come down, descend, disembark, get off, lower, step down, climb down |
| Antonyms: | get up, mount |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
