decreasing
decreasing is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- De*creas"ing*ly, adv. Decreasing series (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abate
- abatement
- abridge
- abridgment
- and
- anticlimax
- attenuate
- away
- bate
- coarctation
- contract
- contraction
- crumble
- decay
- declension
- decline
- decrease
- decrement
- depreciate
- depreciation
- dequantitate
- descend
- descent
- deterioration
- die
- diminish
- diminution
- discount
- drop
- dwarf
- ebb
- extenuate
- extenuation
- fall
- fine
- fritter
- halo
- head
- hide
- into
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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