Usually means: Decreasing in quality, quantity, or strength.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. declining: Merriam-Webster
  2. declining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. declining: Vocabulary.com
  4. Declining, declining: Wordnik
  5. declining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. declining: Wiktionary
  7. Declining, declining: Dictionary.com
  8. declining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Declining: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Declining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Declining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. declining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. declining: FreeDictionary.org
  14. declining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. declining: Legal dictionary
  2. declining: Financial dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. declining: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ noun:  decline

Similar:
down, Falling, regressive, deteriorating, retrograde, dying, retrogressive, regressing, failing, decreasing, more...

Opposite:
ascending, improving, increasing, rising, growing

Types:
exponential, geometric, logarithmic, harmonic, deterministic, probabilistic, more...

Phrases:
declining years, declining balance, declining industry, declining balance method, double declining balance depreciation, more...

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     olive,     mustard,     taupe, more...



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Similar:
down, Falling, regressive, deteriorating, retrograde, dying, retrogressive, regressing, failing, decreasing, more...

Opposite:
ascending, improving, increasing, rising, growing

Types:
exponential, geometric, logarithmic, harmonic, deterministic, probabilistic, more...

Phrases:
declining years, declining balance, declining industry, declining balance method, double declining balance depreciation, result of declining business, declining health, opposite of declining, declining word, more...

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     olive,     mustard,     taupe, more...



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