Usually means: Reducing in size, amount, or importance.
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  1. diminishing: Merriam-Webster
  2. diminishing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. diminishing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Diminishing, diminishing: Wordnik
  5. diminishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. diminishing: Wiktionary
  7. Diminishing, diminishing: Dictionary.com
  8. diminishing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Diminishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. diminishing: Rhymezone
  11. Diminishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. diminishing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. diminishing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. diminishing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. diminishing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. diminishing: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (diminishing)

▸ adjective:  becoming smaller
▸ noun:  A diminishment.

Similar:
decreasing, decremental, monotonic decreasing, evanescent, sublinear, hypoexponential, depressed, strictly increasing, geometric, subexponential, more...

Opposite:
increasing, growing, rising, escalating

Types:
diminishing returns, more...

Phrases:
diminishing returns, diminishing return, diminishing scale, law of diminishing returns, law of diminishing marginal utility, more...

Colors:
    faded blue,     muted brown,     washed-out pink,     soft lavender,     dusty rose, more...



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Similar:
decreasing, decremental, monotonic decreasing, evanescent, sublinear, hypoexponential, depressed, strictly increasing, geometric, subexponential, more...

Opposite:
increasing, growing, rising, escalating

Types:
diminishing returns, more...

Phrases:
diminishing returns, diminishing return, diminishing scale, law of diminishing returns, law of diminishing marginal utility, diminishing marginal utility, diminishing rule, diminishing stile, more...

Colors:
    faded blue,     muted brown,     washed-out pink,     soft lavender,     dusty rose, more...



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