- decline
- v1. deny, turndown, reject, refuse; frown upon, turn thumbs down on, negative, veto; resist, rebuff, repel, repudiate; spurn, shun, avoid; abstain from, forgo, do without.2. dissent, demur, balk, protest; withhold consent, refuse, not budge, remain adamant, put one's foot down.3. descend, drop off, slope, slant, sink, dip; incline, lean, tilt; depress, bend down, turn down.4. wane, decrease, diminish; abate, let up, taper off, subside, ebb; fade away, evanesce, vanish, die out; approach an end, come to a close, Inf. peter out, wind down; obsolesce, be on the way out; dwindle, shrink, contract.5. deteriorate, degenerate, decay; languish, flag, droop, sink, fail, weaken, die; shrivel, wither, molder, rot; waste away, melt away, fade away or out.n6. declivity, downward slope. See declivity.7. failing, weakening, weakness, debility; worsening, retrogression, regression, degeneration; deterioration, declination, decay, atrophy, wasting away; enfeeble-ment, senility, senescence, caducity, (of women) anility, decrepitude, dotage.8. diminution, lessening, lowering; wane, subsidence, ebb, recession, fall-off, downturn, downtrend, downslide, downswing; slump, fall, drop-off, plunge, nosedive.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.