| Main Entry: | shrinkage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decrease |
Synonyms: |
contraction, depreciation, diminution, lessening, loss, reduction, shrinking |
| Main Entry: | contraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drawing in; shortening |
Synonyms: |
abbreviating, abbreviation, abridging, abridgment, compression, condensation, condensing, confinement, confining, constriction, curtailing, curtailment, cutting down, decrease, decreasing, deflating, deflation, diminishing, diminution, drawing together, dwindling, elision, evaporating, evaporation, lessening, lopping, narrowing, omission, omitting, receding, recession, reducing, reduction, shrinkage, shrinking, shrivelling, tensing, tightening, withdrawal, withdrawing |
Antonyms: |
amplification, dilation, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, lengthening, spread, stretch |
| 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: | economy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
Antonyms: |
spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, retrenchment, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, shrinkage, shrinking, slightness, stint, want |
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abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
Synonyms: |
accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage |
Antonyms: |
accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | lessening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decrease |
Synonyms: |
decline, discount, reduction, shrinkage |
| Main Entry: | reduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decline |
Synonyms: |
abatement, attrition, conquest, contraction, curtailment, cut, cutback, debasement, decrement, degradation, devaluation, diminution, discount, downgrading, markdown, minimization, overthrow, rebate, shrinkage, subdual, subjection, subjugation, subtraction |
Antonyms: |
enlargement, increase |
| Main Entry: | misplacement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loss |
Synonyms: |
accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage |