Exact Match:
- decreasing
- becoming less or smaller
- music
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- deliquescent
collapse - (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air related words >
- diminishing
collapse
- becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so; "diminishing returns"; "his diminishing respect for her" related words >
- abating,
- allaying,
- alleviating,
- assuaging,
- blunting,
- chastening,
- contractive,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- deliquescent,
- diminuendo,
- dulling,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- easing,
- ebbing,
- fading,
- languishing,
- lessening,
- mitigating,
- on the wane,
- receding,
- reducing,
- reductive,
- relaxing,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- shrinking,
- sinking,
- softening,
- subduing,
- subsiding,
- tempering,
- waning
- reductive
collapse
- characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciabory" - R.H.Rovere related words >
- ablative,
- arrested,
- backward,
- coarse,
- conceptually crude,
- contractive,
- crude,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- deductive,
- deliquescent,
- diminishing,
- diminuendo,
- dwindling,
- embryonic,
- erosive,
- in embryo,
- in ovo,
- in the rough,
- intellectually childish,
- languishing,
- lessening,
- on the wane,
- oversimple,
- reductionistic,
- rough,
- roughcast,
- roughhewn,
- rude,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- simplistic,
- stunted,
- subsiding,
- subtractive,
- unblown,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- uncut,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unfashioned,
- unfinished,
- unformed,
- unhewn,
- unlabored,
- unlicked,
- unpolished,
- unprocessed,
- unrefined,
- untreated,
- unworked,
- unwrought,
- waning
- waning
collapse
- a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent; "the waning of his enthusiasm was obvious"; "the waxing and waning of the moon"
- (of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases; "after full moon comes the waning moon" related words >
- aging,
- at rest,
- calm,
- cloistered,
- coming apart,
- contractive,
- cool,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- decadent,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- degenerate,
- deliquescent,
- deteriorating,
- diminishing,
- diminuendo,
- disintegrating,
- doting,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- even-tenored,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- getting on,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- halcyon,
- hushed,
- impassive,
- isolated,
- languishing,
- lessening,
- marcescent,
- moldering,
- on the wane,
- pacific,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- pining,
- placid,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- receding,
- reductive,
- regressive,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- secluded,
- senescent,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- sheltered,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- smooth,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- tranquil,
- unagitated,
- undisturbed,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unruffled,
- unstirring,
- untroubled,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worsening
- at rest,
- calm,
- cloistered,
- collapsing,
- coming apart,
- contractive,
- cool,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declining,
- declivitous,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- decurrent,
- degenerate,
- deliquescent,
- descendant,
- descending,
- deteriorating,
- diminishing,
- diminuendo,
- disintegrating,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dropping,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- even-tenored,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- going to pieces,
- halcyon,
- hushed,
- impassive,
- isolated,
- languishing,
- lessening,
- marcescent,
- moldering,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- on the wane,
- pacific,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- pining,
- placid,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- reductive,
- regressive,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- sagging,
- secluded,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- setting,
- sheltered,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- smooth,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- submerging,
- tabetic,
- tottering,
- tranquil,
- tumbledown,
- unagitated,
- undisturbed,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unruffled,
- unstirring,
- untroubled,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worsening
- abatement,
- abating,
- abridgment,
- allaying,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- analgesia,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetizing,
- appeasement,
- assuagement,
- assuaging,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- blunting,
- calming,
- chastening,
- contraction,
- contractive,
- curtailment,
- cushioning,
- cut,
- cutting,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- declining,
- decrease,
- decreasing,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- deliquescent,
- demulsion,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- derogation,
- detraction,
- diminishing,
- diminishment,
- diminuendo,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disparagement,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- dying off,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- extenuation,
- extraction,
- fade-out,
- falling-off,
- hushing,
- impairment,
- languishing,
- languishment,
- leniency,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lowering,
- lulling,
- miniaturization,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- numbing,
- on the wane,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reducing,
- reduction,
- reductive,
- relaxation,
- relaxing,
- relief,
- remedy,
- remission,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- sagging,
- salving,
- scaling down,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- simplicity,
- slackening,
- softening,
- soothing,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- subsiding,
- subtraction,
- tempering,
- tranquilization,
- truncation,
- waning,
- weakening
- dwindling
collapse
- a becoming gradually less; "there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family"
- gradually decreasing until little remains related words >
- at rest,
- calm,
- catabasis,
- cloistered,
- collapse,
- coming apart,
- contractive,
- cool,
- cracking,
- crash,
- crumbling,
- decadent,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- degenerate,
- deliquescent,
- deteriorating,
- diminishing,
- diminuendo,
- disintegrating,
- dive,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- draining,
- drooping,
- drop,
- dying,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- even-tenored,
- fading,
- failing,
- fall,
- falling,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- going to pieces,
- halcyon,
- hushed,
- impassive,
- isolated,
- languishing,
- lapse,
- lessening,
- marcescent,
- moldering,
- on the wane,
- pacific,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- pining,
- placid,
- plunge,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- receding,
- reductive,
- regressive,
- remission,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- retiring,
- retreat,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- secluded,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- sheltered,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- slumping,
- smooth,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- subsidence,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- tranquil,
- unagitated,
- undisturbed,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unruffled,
- unstirring,
- untroubled,
- wane,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worsening
- decrescendo
collapse
- (music) a gradual decrease in loudness
- gradually decreasing in volume
- grow quieter; "The music decrescendoes here" related words >
- a cappella,
- abbandono,
- accrescendo,
- adagietto,
- adagio,
- affettuoso,
- agilmente,
- agitato,
- allegretto,
- allegro,
- amabile,
- amoroso,
- andante,
- andantino,
- appassionatamente,
- appassionato,
- barely audible,
- brillante,
- capriccioso,
- catabasis,
- collapse,
- con affetto,
- con agilita,
- con agitazione,
- con amore,
- contractive,
- crash,
- crescendo,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- decreasingly,
- decrescent,
- deliquescent,
- dim,
- diminishing,
- diminishingly,
- diminuendo,
- dimness,
- distant,
- dive,
- dolce,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- drop,
- dwindling,
- ebb,
- ever less,
- faint,
- faint-voiced,
- faintness,
- fall,
- feeble,
- feebleness,
- flatness,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- gentle,
- gentleness,
- half-heard,
- indistinct,
- indistinctness,
- lamentabile,
- languishing,
- lapse,
- larghetto,
- larghissimo,
- largo,
- legato,
- leggiero,
- less,
- less and less,
- lessening,
- low,
- lowness,
- marcando,
- morendo,
- murmured,
- on the wane,
- parlando,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pizzicato,
- plunge,
- prestissimo,
- presto,
- rallentando,
- reductive,
- remission,
- retreat,
- ritardando,
- ritenuto,
- scarcely heard,
- scherzando,
- scherzo,
- scherzoso,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- soft,
- soft-sounding,
- soft-voiced,
- softness,
- sordo,
- sotto voce,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- stretto,
- subaudibility,
- subaudible,
- subdued,
- subduedness,
- subsidence,
- subsiding,
- tremolando,
- tremoloso,
- trillando,
- unclear,
- unclearness,
- wane,
- waning,
- weak,
- weak-voiced,
- weakness,
- whispered
- 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,
- down-reaching,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downgrade,
- downhill,
- 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
- Heimweh,
- aching,
- adoring,
- affectionate,
- bowed-down,
- cachectic,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- cast down,
- chronic ill health,
- coming apart,
- conjugal,
- contractive,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- dashed,
- debilitated,
- debilitation,
- debility,
- decadent,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- decrepitude,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- degenerate,
- dejected,
- delicacy,
- delicate health,
- deliquescent,
- demonstrative,
- depressed,
- desiderium,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- deteriorating,
- devoted,
- diminishing,
- diminuendo,
- discouraged,
- disheartened,
- disintegrating,
- dispirited,
- down,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- drained,
- draining,
- drawn-out,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- enervated,
- enervation,
- enfeebled,
- exhausted,
- exhaustion,
- extended,
- fading,
- failing,
- faineant,
- faithful,
- falling,
- feeble,
- feebleness,
- feeling low,
- filial,
- flagging,
- fond,
- fragility,
- fragmenting,
- frail,
- frailty,
- going to pieces,
- hankering,
- healthless,
- healthlessness,
- heartless,
- homesick,
- homesickness,
- honing,
- husbandly,
- hypochondria,
- hypochondriac,
- hypochondriacal,
- hypochondriasis,
- ill health,
- in low spirits,
- in poor health,
- in the depths,
- in the doldrums,
- in the dumps,
- indolent,
- infirm,
- infirmity,
- interminable,
- invalid,
- invalidism,
- invalidity,
- lackadaisical,
- languishment,
- languorous,
- lasting,
- lengthened,
- lessening,
- limp,
- lingering,
- listless,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-winded,
- longing,
- lovelorn,
- lovesick,
- lovesome,
- loving,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- mal du pays,
- maladie du pays,
- marathon,
- marcescent,
- maternal,
- melting,
- morbidity,
- morbidness,
- moribund,
- nostalgia,
- nostalgic,
- nostomania,
- on the wane,
- overlong,
- pale,
- parental,
- paternal,
- peaked,
- peakedness,
- peaky,
- pessimistic,
- pining,
- poor health,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- reduced,
- reduced in health,
- reductive,
- regressive,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- romantic,
- run-down,
- sentimental,
- shriveling,
- sickliness,
- sickly,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- soft,
- spiritless,
- spun-out,
- stretched-out,
- subdued,
- subsiding,
- suicidal,
- tabetic,
- tender,
- unhealthiness,
- unhealthy,
- unsound,
- unsoundness,
- unwholesomeness,
- uxorious,
- valetudinarian,
- valetudinarianism,
- valetudinary,
- waning,
- wasting,
- weakened,
- weakliness,
- weakly,
- weary of life,
- wifely,
- wilting,
- wishful,
- wistful,
- with low resistance,
- withering,
- woebegone,
- world-weary,
- worsening,
- yearnful,
- yearning,
- yen
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