declining
adjective
[ dɪˈklʌɪnɪŋ ]
• becoming smaller, fewer, or less; decreasing.
• "declining budgets"
decline
verb
• (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease.
• "the birth rate continued to decline"
Similar:
decrease,
reduce,
get smaller,
grow smaller,
lessen,
get less,
diminish,
wane,
dwindle,
contract,
shrink,
fall off,
taper off,
tail off,
peter out,
drop,
fall,
go down,
sink,
slump,
plummet,
plunge,
nosedive,
take a nosedive,
take a header,
go into a tailspin,
crash,
• politely refuse (an invitation or offer).
• "Caroline declined the coffee"
Similar:
turn down,
reject,
brush aside,
refuse,
rebuff,
spurn,
disdain,
look down one's nose at,
repulse,
repudiate,
dismiss,
forgo,
deny oneself,
pass up,
refuse to take advantage of,
turn one's back on,
abstain (from),
say no to,
shake one's head,
send one's regrets,
give the thumbs down (to),
give the red light (to),
give something a miss,
give someone the brush-off,
knock back,
snout,
• (especially of the sun) move downwards.
• "the sun began to creep round to the west and to decline"
• (in the grammar of Latin, Greek, and certain other languages) state the forms of (a noun, pronoun, or adjective) corresponding to case, number, and gender.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French decliner, from Latin declinare ‘bend down, turn aside’, from de- ‘down’ + clinare ‘to bend’.
