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Synonyms for decreasing
de·creas·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
decreasingadjective
becoming less or smaller
Antonyms:
incorporative, increasing, accretive, accelerative, maximizing, accelerando, acceleratory, multiplicative, raising, profit-maximizing, augmentative, profit-maximising, progressive, accretionary, maximising, crescendodecreasingadjective
music
Antonyms:
acceleratory, raising, accelerando, progressive, augmentative, incorporative, maximizing, maximising, accretionary, crescendo, accelerative, profit-maximising, profit-maximizing, multiplicative, increasing, accretive
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
decreasingadjective
Synonyms:
decrescent, diminishing, waning
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2036 | reduce | |
#2750 | reduction | |
#4576 | reducing | |
#4933 | decrease | |
#5301 | falling | |
#5615 | decline | |
#9606 | descending | |
#12520 | decreasing | |
#12580 | lowering | |
#13763 | declining | |
#14889 | downward | |
#21238 | shrinking | |
#25606 | diminishing | |
#43633 | dwindling | |
#100295 | subsiding |
How to use decreasing in a sentence?
There is a phenomenon of decreasing overall colorectal cancer rates in the population in general, we think because of the increase in screening for particularly for older adults, but that doesn’t really account for the overall increase in the number of patients younger than, say, 50 and 45 that are developing cancer.
A highly deniable attack, such as the one on the hull of the tankers, would be entirely consistent with the past four decades of Iranian security strategy, which emphasizes increasing the challenges of attribution, overcoming conventional military weaknesses, and decreasing the prospects of escalation against the Iranian homeland for regime meddling.
While President Trump threatens to rob New Mexico and indeed all states of a valuable tool for combating air pollution and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, New Mexico will stand up and deliver on our commitment to environmental leadership.
The design objectives for an air-time record would be vastly different from the low-drag version we built for the longest-distance record, increasing the wingspan and decreasing the aspect ratio would be the first steps in producing this type of plane.
My sharpest concern as Director General of MI5 is the growing gap between the increasingly challenging threat and the decreasing availability of capabilities to address it.
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