Dictionary Definition
diminishing adj : becoming smaller or less or
appearing to do so; "diminishing returns"; "his diminishing respect
for her"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- becoming smaller
Translations
becoming smaller
- Finnish: pienentyvä
Verb
diminishing- present participle of diminish
Derived terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abating, allaying, alleviating, assuaging, blunting, chastening, contractive, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, declining, decreasing, decrescendo, decrescent, deliquescent, diminuendo, dulling, dwindling, dying, easing, ebbing, fading, languishing, lessening, mitigating, on the wane,
receding, reducing, reductive, relaxing, retiring, retreating, shrinking, sinking, softening, subduing, subsiding, tempering, waning