Fall Synonyms and Antonyms

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To move downward in response to gravity
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. descend
  2. drop
  3. go down
  4. come-down
Antonyms:
  1. rise
  2. ascend
  3. go up
  4. climb
  5. scale
  6. increase
To come to the ground suddenly and involuntarily
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. drop
  2. go down
  3. nose-dive
  4. pitch
  5. descend
  6. accrue
  7. plunge
  8. spill
  9. topple
  10. tumble
  11. settle
The season after summer
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. autumn
  2. harvest
  3. harvest-time
  4. the sere and yellow leaf
  5. the fall of the year
  6. september
  7. twilight
  8. october
  9. dusk
  10. november
  11. gloaming
  12. ""when the frost is on the punkin' and the fodder's in the shock.''
  13. gloam
  14. nightfall
  15. evenfall
  16. crepuscule
  17. crepuscle
To die in battle
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. drop
  2. slump
  3. go down
  4. sink
  5. bite-the-dust
To pass quickly downward
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decline
  2. descend
  3. drop
  4. decrease
  5. sink
  6. buckle
  7. collapse
  8. backslide
  9. hang
  10. plunge
  11. plummet
  12. abate
  13. stumble
  14. topple
  15. lapse
  16. trip
  17. gravitate
  18. pitch
  19. depreciate
  20. tumble
  21. settle
  22. subside
  23. slump
  24. flop
  25. recede
  26. slip
  27. diminish
  28. lessen
  29. fall down
  30. go down
  31. lower
  32. totter
  33. break down
  34. cave in
  35. crumple
  36. droop
  37. apostatize
  38. autumn
  39. regress
  40. capitulate
  41. cascade
  42. cataract
  43. drop-down
  44. dip
  45. crash
  46. come down suddenly
  47. take-a-dive
  48. degrade
  49. take a nose dive
  50. depress
  51. be precipitated
  52. make a forced landing
  53. destruction
  54. fall flat
  55. die
  56. fall-in
  57. disappoint
  58. discharge
  59. fold-up
  60. disembogue
  61. keel over
  62. dive
  63. fall-over
  64. do wrong
  65. tip-over
  66. drip
  67. slope
  68. empty
  69. fail
  70. relapse
  71. founder
  72. goastray
  73. ebb
  74. grabble
  75. grovel
  76. moderate
  77. take-a-spill
  78. occur
  79. take a header
  80. overthrow
  81. perish
  82. plop
  83. precipitate
  84. ruin
  85. sag
  86. season
  87. sin
  88. spill
  89. sprawl
  90. straggle
  91. submit
  92. surrender
  93. flow
Antonyms:
  1. rise
  2. ascend
  3. climb
To be overthrown
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. surrender
  2. go down
  3. go under
  4. topple
  5. submit
  6. yield
  7. collapse
  8. succumb
  9. be destroyed
  10. be taken
  11. pass into enemy hands
  12. bend
  13. defer
  14. lie-down
  15. resign
  16. capitulate
  17. shine
  18. back down
  19. break up
  20. get one's come-uppance
  21. fall-to-pieces
  22. strike
Antonyms:
  1. resist
  2. win
  3. prevail
  4. advance
  5. endure
  6. attain
  7. reach
  8. overcome
  9. overthrow
To become or cause to become less active or intense
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. abate
  2. bate
  3. die away
  4. down
  5. off
  6. or out)
  7. ease
  8. ebb
  9. fall off
  10. lapse
  11. let up
  12. moderate
  13. remit
  14. slacken
  15. slack off
  16. subside
  17. wane
To undergo a sharp, rapid descent in value or price
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. drop
  2. plummet
  3. dive
  4. sink
  5. nose-dive
  6. plunge
  7. slump
  8. skid
  9. tumble
That which falls
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. spill
  2. tumble
  3. rainfall
  4. snowfall
  5. dive
  6. precipitation
  7. snow
  8. nosedive
  9. rain
  10. hail
  11. pitch
  12. sleet
  13. blanket
  14. plunge
  15. carpet
  16. drop
  17. covering
  18. one or two or three
  19. /etc
  20. inches of snow or rain
  21. header
To undergo moral deterioration
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sink
  2. slip
To occur
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. come
  2. take-place
  3. befall
  4. precipitate
  5. come-to-pass
  6. occur
  7. come-down
To come as by lot or inheritance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. devolve
  2. pass
  3. light
  4. return
When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pin
Lose an upright position suddenly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. fall down
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. anticlimactic
  2. deciduous
  3. precipitant
  4. precipitous

Words Related to Fall

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Fall Sentence Examples

  • Does the rain fall there?

  • How could anyone fall asleep that fast?

  • This same summer the pond has begun to fall again.

  • Now, into the house, before you fall ill.

  • I'd better get a screwdriver and tighten that ladder before you fall and break your neck.

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