Meaning of DECLINING

Pronunciation:			dikl'Ining
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[adj]  going from better to worse [adj]  becoming progressively lower; "steadily declining incomes"; "the down trend in the real estate market" [adj]  growing weaker; "declining powers of body and mind"
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	Synonyms:		decreasing, deteriorating, down(a), failing, falling, regressing, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		abjuration, abjurement, abnegation, aging, chucking, chucking out, collapsing, coming apart, contempt, contractive, contradiction, cracking, crumbling, decadent, deciduous, declension, declination, declinature, declined, declivate, declivitous, declivous, decreasing, decrescendo, decrescent, decurrent, degenerate, deliquescent, denial, deprivation, descendant, descending, despisal, despising, deteriorating, diminishing, diminuendo, dipping, disagreement, disallowance, disapproval, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discounting, disintegrating, dismissal, disobedience, disownment, disregard, dissent, doting, down, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downgrade, downhill, down-reaching, downsinking, downward, draining, drooping, dropping, dwindling, dying, ebbing, effete, exception, exclusion, fading, failing, falling, flagging, fragmenting, getting on, going to pieces, growing old, holding back, ignoring, languishing, lessening, marcescent, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonapproval, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonconsideration, nonobservance, on the descendant, on the downgrade, on the wane, passing by, pining, plummeting, plunging, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recantation, receding, reductive, refusal, regressive, rejection, renouncement, repudiation, repulse, retention, retiring, retreating, retrograde, retrogressive, sagging, scouting, senescent, setting, shrinking, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, spurning, submerging, subsiding, tabetic, throwing out, thumbs-down, tottering, tumbledown, turndown, turning out, unwillingness, waning, wasting, wilting, withering, withholding, worsening