Synonyms for decrease
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Lessen
lessen, reduce, diminish, lower, fall, curtail, shrink, minimize, minimise UK, dwindle, subside, cut, ebb, sink, moderate, contract, plummet, retrench, impair, go down, waste, depreciate, fade
Noun
1. Reduction — an amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased
reduction, decrement, decline, diminution, abatement, lowering, loss, consumption, shrinkage, curtailment, falling-off, contraction, depreciation, retrenchment
Other
Definitions
- v. 1
Of a quantity, to become smaller.
The quality of our products has decreased since the main designer left.
- n. 1
An amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased.
After six years of constant growth, the company reported a slight decrease in sales last year.
- n. 2
A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).
Related words
- Word family
- decrescendo
- Is a kind of
- happen
Example sentences
- lower Being less urgent, this plan is lower in priority.
- diminish This doesn't give him the right to diminish Muslims.
- lessen We had to lessen the impact of the erratic supplies.
- curtail Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
By length
- 3 letters
- cut1, ebb1
- 4 letters
- fall1, loss1, drop1, sink1, fade1
- 5 letters
- lower2, waste1, abate2
- 6 letters
- reduce2, shrink1, lessen2, impair2, minify
- 7 letters
- decline2, curtail2, subside2, plummet2, dwindle2
- 8 letters
- contract2, moderate3, minimize3, lowering3, diminish3, minimise, retrench2, uncrease
- 9 letters
- reduction3, dwindling3, shrinkage2, lessening3, abatement3, decrement
- 10 letters
- subsidence3, depreciate4, diminution4
- 11 letters
- consumption3, contraction3, curtailment3
- 12 letters
- depreciation5, retrenchment3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lower2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- diminuer
- Italiano
- diminuire
- Español
- disminuir
- Deutsch
- verringern
- Català
- disminuir