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declining
adjective as in decadent
adjective as in descending
adjective as in down
adjective as in downhill
Strongest match
Weak matches
- dipping
- dropping
- sloping downward
adjective as in dying
adjective as in effete
adjective as in elderly
adjective as in failing
adjective as in falling
adjective as in laid-up
Weak matches
- ailing
- bedridden
- broken down
- confined
- debilitated
- defective
- delicate
- diseased
- disordered
- down
- feeble
- feverish
- frail
- funny
- green
- hospitalized
- ill
- impaired
- imperfect
- in a bad way
- in poor health
- incurable
- indisposed
- infected
- infirm
- invalid
- lousy
- mean
- nauseated
- not so hot
- peaked
- poorly
- qualmish
- queasy
- rickety
- rocky
- rotten
- run down
- sick as a dog
- suffering
- tottering
- under medication
- under the weather
- unhealthy
- unwell
- weak
- wobbly
adjective as in lessening
Strong matches
adjective as in moribund
adjective as in noncompliant
adjective as in retrograde
adjective as in sick
Strong matches
noun as in aging
noun as in decrease
noun as in thumbs-down
Example Sentences
A senior Iranian official in Pakistan later confirmed the strike took place, declining to elaborate.
The Newsroom is over, newsrooms as we traditionally understand them are rapidly declining, and New Media is here to stay.
Of course, declining or stagnant wage growth started well before this president took office.
Death by pills or lethal injection might be unnatural, but she believes that declining nourishment and medications is not.
The result is safe seats that lead to apathy and voter impotence, leading logically to ever-declining voter turnout.
If you have a reason for declining to play, do so decidedly when first invited, and do not change your decision.
If, after affliction, your friends call before you are able to see them, do not fear to give offence by declining to receive them.
Mèste Ambroi, declining at first to sing, says "Li mirau soun creba!"
But what, in the name of the great prince, is the meaning of her declining the urban expedition?
The fur-seal fishery is an important industry, though apparently a declining one.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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