Synonyms for decline
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Decrease
decrease, wane, diminish, dwindle, fall away, ebb, abate, lessen, come down, languish, go down, fade, pine, weaken, subside, depreciate, set, waste, sink, flag
2. Refuse
refuse, reject, turn down, spurn, renounce, disdain, disapprove, pass up, dissent, forbear, repel
4. Deteriorate
Noun
1. Deterioration
deterioration, drop, declination, fall, declension, descent, degeneration, decadence, lapse, failure, diminishment, reduction, downfall, degradation, degeneracy, depression, droop, failing, abatement, slope, break, die
Other
diminution, decay, consumption, atrophy, down-turn, lean, set-aside, phthisis dated, caducity rare, disimprovement rare
Definitions
- v. 1
To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.
- v. 2
To become weaker or worse.
My health declined in winter.
- v. 3
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- n. 1
Downward movement, fall.
The aircraft went into a sudden decline before the pilot regained control.
Related words
- Word family
- declension declination declivity
- Phrases
- acute oak decline oak decline
Example sentences
- decrease A significant decrease in temperature is expected.
- diminish This doesn't give him the right to diminish Muslims.
- wane Love's intensity can wane as familiarity grows.
- refuse I didn't really think Tom would refuse to do that.
- deteriorate Boldi's eyesight began to deteriorate drastically.
By length
- 3 letters
- set1, die1, ebb1
- 4 letters
- fall1, drop1, flag1, sink1, vary2, pine1, lean1, fade1, shun1, wane1
- 5 letters
- break1, avoid2, waste1, slope1, decay2, lapse1, slump1, evade2, repel2, abate2, droop1, spurn1
- 6 letters
- suffer2, refuse2, reject2, weaken2, lessen2, worsen2
- 7 letters
- correct2, failure2, failing2, descent2, dissent2, disdain2, atrophy3, subside2, dwindle2, forbear, inflect
- 8 letters
- decrease2, diminish3, downfall2, renounce2, languish2, phthisis, declense, caducity
- 9 letters
- reduction3, decadence3, abatement3, declinate
- 10 letters
- depression3, degenerate4, disapprove3, retrograde3, degeneracy5, depreciate4, diminution4, declension3
- 11 letters
- consumption3, degradation4, deteriorate5, declination
- 12 letters
- degeneration5, diminishment4
- 13 letters
- deterioration6
- 14 letters
- disimprovement
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vary2 = 2 syllables).