declining

The word “declining” has 3 syllables: de-clin-ing

It's pronounced as /dɪˈklaɪnɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for declining?

In the thesaurus, “declining” has 444 synonyms and 180 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for declining along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for declining

abatement
abating
abjuring
aged
aging
ailing
alleviating
ancient
angling
at end of rope
at the end of the rope
atrophying
avoiding
backing down
backing off
backtracking
backward
banning
bashful
bedridden
been around
belligerent
blowing off
bottomward
bowed
bowing
breaking down
broken down
burnt out
bypassing
canting
cascading
catabolic
checking
cocking
collapsing
compressing
compression
condensation
condensing
confined
constraining
constricting
constriction
contracting
contraction
contradicting
contrary
controverting
contumacious
corrupt
corrupting
coy
crashing
cratering
crumbling
curbing
cutback
dangling
de-escalating
death
debased
debauched
debilitated
debilitating
decadence
decadent
decay
decayed
decaying
decease
declension
declinatory
decline
declined
decomposing
decreasing
decrepit
decrescence
defeated
defective
deficient
deflating
degenerate
degenerating
degeneration
degraded
degrading
delicate
demise
denying
depraved
depreciating
depressed
depression
descendant
descendent
descending
descent
deselecting
deteriorating
deterioration
detouring
developing
devolving
diffident
dilapidating
diminishing
diminution
dipping
disallowing
disapproval
disapproving
disavowing
disclaiming
discount
disdaining
diseased
disintegrating
dismissing
disordered
disowning
disproving
disputing
dissatisfaction
dissipated
dissolute
divergent
diving
done for
doomed
down
downgrade
downhill
downsizing
downturn
downward
drained
drooping
droopy
dropping
dwindling
dying
dying down
earthward
easing
ebb
ebbing
effete
end
enervated
enfeebled
enjoining
evaporating
evil
exit
expiration
expiring
expiry
fading
fading away
failing
faint
falling
falling away
falling-off
far-gone
fated
feeble
fermenting
feverish
final
flagging
floppy
forbearing
forbidding
foreswearing
forswearing
frail
funny
gainsaying
getting along
getting on
giving out
giving up the ghost
going
going to pot
going to seed
gone bad
gone to the dogs
gravitating
gray
green
groundward
hanging
heeling
hindering
hoary
holding
hospitalized
hung
ignoring
ill
immoral
impaired
impatient
impeding
imperfect
in a bad way
in extremis
in poor health
inadequate
inclining
incurable
indisposed
infected
inferior
infirm
insufficient
invalid
inverse
inverted
irregular
keeping
lagging
laid-up
languishing
lapsing
leaning
lessening
letting up
lightening
limp
listing
long in tooth
losing momentum
loss
lost
lot of mileage
lousy
lowering
markdown
maturing
mean
mellowing
moderating
modest
moldering
moribund
mortal
mortally ill
narrowing
nauseated
negating
negative
negativing
nether
nixing
no
no spring chicken
nodding
nose-diving
not so hot
objecting
obsolete
obstructing
old
olden
on last leg
one foot in grave
one foot in the grave
ostracism
over the hill
overrefined
overripe
overruling
palling
passing
passing up
peaked
pendant
pendent
pendulous
perishing
perverted
phasing down
played-out
plummeting
plunging
poorly
precipitating
prohibiting
proscribing
putrefying
qualmish
queasy
quieting
rebellious
rebuff
rebuffing
rebutting
recalcitrant
recalling
recanting
receding
reclining
red light
reducing
reduction
refractory
refusal
refusing
refuting
regressing
regression
regrets
rejecting
rejection
relaxing
relenting
remitting
reneging
renouncing
repelling
repressing
reprobating
repudiating
restive
restraining
restricting
retired
retiring
retracting
retreating
retrograding
retrogression
reversed
reversion
revoking
rickety
rocky
rotten
rotting
run down
running down
running to seed
sagging
scant
scanty
scarce
scorning
scouting
senescent
settling
shooting down
short
shrinkage
shrinking
shriveling
shriveling up
shrivelling
shy
sick as a dog
sinking
skidding
slackening
slanting
sliding
slipping
sloping
sloping downward
slowing
slumping
snub
soft
softening
souring
spent
spoiling
spurning
stale
sticking
stooping
striction
subjacent
subsidence
subsiding
suffering
suspended
taking back
tapering
tapering off
throwing out
throwing over
tilting
timid
tipping
tired
to the bottom
toppling
tottering
truculent
tumbling
turndown
turning down
unavailing
under
under medication
under the weather
undermining
underneath
unhealthy
unprosperous
unsaying
unsuccessful
unsufficient
unthriving
unwell
vain
vanishing
venerable
veto
vetoing
vitiated
waning
wanting
wanton
washed-out
wasted
wasting
weak
weakening
wearing down
wearing off
wearing out
weeping
wicked
wilting
withdrawing
withering
withholding
wobbly
worn-out
worsening

Antonyms for declining

above
acceding
accepting
according
accumulating
acquiescing
addition
adequate
adopting
advancing
affording
agreeing
allowing
ameliorating
appearing
approval
approving
arising
ascending
assenting
authorizing
ballooning
benevolent
bettering
blossoming
blowing up
bold
bourgeoning
building
burgeoning
capable
cheerful
cheery
choosing
clean
climbing
commissioning
compliant
conceding
condoning
consenting
content
countenancing
creating
decent
developing
development
distending
elevated
elongating
embracing
emerging
enhancing
enlargement
enlarging
enough
enriching
erect
escalating
espousing
evening
expanding
expansion
extroverted
flattening
flourishing
flowering
fortifying
forward
furnishing
gentle
giving
good
granting
growing
growth
handpicking
happy
healthy
heartened
heightening
higher
humble
improving
increase
increasing
inflexible
intensifying
kind
lengthening
letting
leveling
levelling
licencing
licensing
lifting
living
marching
markup
maturation
maturing
meliorating
mellowing
moral
mounting
mushrooming
new
nice
noble
obedient
ok
okaying
perfect
permanent
permitting
picking up
planing
pleased
positive
proceeding
progressing
providing
pure
raise
raised
rebounding
receiving
reviving
rigid
ripening
rise
rising
sanctioning
satisfied
selecting
showing up
smoothing
snowballing
soaring
softening
sound
spiking
stiff
straightening
strengthening
strong
subservient
sufficient
supplying
supporting
swallowing
swelling
taking
thriving
thumbs-up
tireless
tolerating
unbending
uncorrupt
undiseased
upgrading
upping
upraised
upright
uprising
upsweeping
upturning
virtuous
vouchsafing
warranting
waxing
welcome
welcoming
well
willing
working
yes
young
youth
youthful

Meanings of declining

verb
1. To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
2. To become weaker or worse.
3. To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
4. To cause to decrease or diminish.
5. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
6. To refuse, forbear.
7. (grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.
8. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
9. To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
noun
1. Decline.

Example Sentences

The doctor was concerned about his declining health.
They are worried about the declining number of students enrolling in the program.
She kept declining offers for help, insisting she could manage alone.
The company is facing declining sales due to increased competition.
With the sun declining, the temperature started to drop.

On this page you'll find 624 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to declining, such as: abatement, abating, abjuring, above, acceding, accepting, according.

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