declining

Speech parts

1. declining - Noun

2. declining - Verb

Meaning

of Decline

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

wan down fall passe ebbing reduce drop reduction decline decrease falling decay dying failing rejection
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Antonyms

golden making according successful increasing vernal
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Phrases with the word

at a declining rate declining prices declining birth rates declining birth rate declining population declining to support

Examples

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.' Winston Churchill

Avarice is the vice of declining years. George Bancroft

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. Joseph Addison

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths. Pythagoras

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. Robert Teeter

On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away. V. S. Pritchett

Close letter words and terms

decline to vote declined decliner declining birth rate declining birth rates declining population