Diminishing Synonyms and Antonyms

Decrease in size, extent, or range
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decreasing
  2. lessening
  3. falling
  4. abbreviating
  5. reducing
Antonyms:
  1. lengthening
  2. extending
  3. expanding
  4. developing
  5. growing
  6. enlarging
  7. increasing
  8. prolonging
To make smaller or less; reduce or lessen.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decreasing

Diminishing Sentence Examples

  • The numbers of the native Australians are steadily diminishing.

  • Closely related to the law of diminishing returns is the Theory of Rent.

  • The most recent statistics show the disease to be diminishing.

  • He was always a poor man, and Socrates advised him "to borrow from himself, by diminishing his expenditure."

  • The ratio of this to the whole work done by the battery is (C - C')/C, so that the efficiency is increased by diminishing C'.

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