declining

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: de=clin=ing

THESAURUS

declining

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

ROGET THESAURUS

declining

Refusal

N refusal, rejection, noncompliance, incompliance, denial, declining, declension, declinature, peremptory refusal, flat refusal, point blank refusal, repulse, rebuff, discountenance, recusancy, abnegation, protest, disclaimer, dissent, revocation, refusing, restive, restiff, recusant, uncomplying, unconsenting, not willing to hear of, deaf to, refused, ungranted, out of the question, not to be thought of, impossible, no, on no account, not for the world, no thank you, thanks but no thanks, non possumus, your humble servant, bien oblige, not on your life, no way, not even if you beg on your knees.

Age

N age, oldness, old age, advanced age, golden years, senility, senescence, years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation, second childhood, second childishness, dotage, vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf, threescore years and ten, green old age, ripe age, longevity, time of life, seniority, eldership, elders, firstling, doyen, father, primogeniture, geriatrics, nostology, aged, old, elderly, geriatric, senile, matronly, anile, in years, ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime, gray, gray-headed, hoar, hoary, venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated, advanced in life, advanced in years, stricken in years, wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot, having one foot in the grave, doting, like the last of pea time, older, elder, eldest, senior, firstborn, turned of, years old, of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah, ancestral, patriarchal, gerontic, give me a staff of honor for my age, bis pueri senes, peu de gens savent elre vieux, plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus, old age is creeping on apace, slow-consuming age, the hoary head is a crown of glory, the silver livery of advised age, to grow old gracefully, to vanish in the chinks that Time has made.