What is another word for descending?

Synonyms for descending
de·scend·ing

This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word descending.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. descending(a)adjective

    coming down or downward

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "descending":

    top-down, descendant, decreasing, desc, downstream, declining, downshift, down, ilah

How to pronounce descending?

How to say descending in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#311down
#9606descending
#12157downstream
#12187desc
#12520decreasing
#13763declining
#28531descendant
#137247downshift

How to use descending in a sentence?

  1. Boris Sauterey:

    Could Mars still be inhabited today by micro-organisms descending from this primitive biosphere? if so, where?

  2. Artyom Nazarov:

    To live in a country that is descending into an abyss of absurdity and fear is much more frightening than what happened to me or could happen there (on Sunday).

  3. Ekaterina Schulmann:

    [ The government ] is scared to make people angry, scared to leave people without bread, which will make them even angrier, people have seen a constant decline in income since 2014, support for the president has been descending since 2018. It is risky to push people even further.

  4. Richard Madgwick:

    These gatherings could be seen as the first united cultural events of our island, with people from all corners of Britain descending on the areas around Stonehenge to feast on food that had been specially reared and transported from their homes.

  5. Peter Anderson:

    Randy Wolfe did not create the descending chromatic scale.


Translations for descending

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

Get even more translations for descending »

Translation

Find a translation for the descending synonym in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Citation

Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"descending." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 25 Apr. 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/descending>.

Discuss these descending synonyms with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good synonym for descending?

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Synonyms.com

    Quiz

    Are you a human thesaurus?

    »
    Which of the following words is not a synonym of the others?
    A noxiously
    B harmlessly
    C harmfully
    D detrimentally

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for descending: