receding Synonym

decline, decrease, drop, reduction, downturn, dip, slump, deterioration, weakening, lessening, diminishing, abatement, waning, shrinkage, subsidence, attrition, depreciation, descent, ebb, dwindling, regression, collapse, plunge, slide, recession, degradation, decay, backslide, deflation, dwindlement, diminution, slackening, tapering [x]

tense, anxious, nervous, uneasy, agitated, stressed, jittery, restless, on edge, uptight, fidgety, worried, apprehensive, strained, keyed up, high-strung, jumpy, unsettled, frazzled, overwrought, perturbed, discomposed, flustered, disturbed, troubled, disquieted, fretful, skittish, twitchy, spooked, alarmed, panicky, hyper, wound up, nervous wreck, in a tizzy, in a dither, in a flap, in a state, on pins and needles, on tenterhooks, ill at ease, not at ease, ill-at-ease, not-at-ease [x]

filled, packed, loaded, brimming, bursting, crammed, stuffed, overflowing, replete, saturated, teeming, chock-full, jam-packed, well-stocked, ample, abundant, complete, entire, whole, total, comprehensive, exhaustive, thorough, plenary, sated, satiated, glutted, engorged, congested, capacious, bounteous, bountiful, copious, profuse, lavish, rich, extensive, voluminous, substantial, plenteous, sufficient, adequate [x]

incomplete, uncompleted, unaccomplished, unfulfilled, pending, ongoing, unexecuted, unperformed, half-done, half-finished, partial, fragmentary, unpolished, unrefined, unperfected, in progress, not done, not finished, not completed, not accomplished, not fulfilled, not executed, not performed, not polished, not refined, not perfected, undone, unended, unfinalized, unclosed, unwrapped, unsewn, unstitched, unassembled, unconstructed, uncrafted, uncreated, unmade, unproduced, unachieved, unconsummated, unrounded, unsealed, unshaped, unstructured, unworked, unprocessed, unrendered [x]

run-down, dilapidated, shabby, decrepit, battered, worn-out, tattered, ramshackle, derelict, decayed, neglected, rickety, broken-down, crumbling, seedy, weather-beaten, beat-up, in disrepair, ruins, in tatters, in shambles, falling apart, on its last legs, in sorry state, in bad shape, in a state of neglect, in a state of decay, in a state of disrepair, in a state of ruin, in a state of collapse, in a state of dilapidation, in a state of dereliction, in a state of abandonment, in a state of disuse [x]

declining, diminishing, decreasing, fading, waning, ebbing, dwindling, lessening, weakening, subsiding, abating, receding, shrinking, tapering off, petering out, slumping, flagging, falling off, losing ground, running out, tailing off, going down, dropping, slipping, deteriorating, collapsing, failing, sagging, sinking, withering, atrophying, languishing, decaying, degenerating, disintegrating, crumbling, eroding, wasting away, evaporating, vanishing, disappearing, melting away, phasing out, extinguishing, declining in strength, losing momentum, running low, running out of steam [x]

unfinished, incomplete, uncompleted, pending, ongoing, in progress, half-done, half-finished, unaccomplished, unfulfilled, unachieved, undone, unexecuted, unperformed, unperfected, unpolished, unrefined, unfinalized, unended, unclosed, unwrapped, unsealed, unconsummated [x]

decaying, decomposing, rotting, festering, spoiling, putrefying, moldering, disintegrating, breaking down, perishing, deteriorating, crumbling, collapsing, degrading, corroding, tainting, fouling, souring, stinking, smelling, rancid, fetid, malodorous, putrid, rank, foul, offensive, noxious, mephitic, noisome, reeking, stenchy, musty, moldy, mildewed, fusty, gamy, high, overripe, spoiled, tainted, corrupted, polluted, infected, infested, gangrenous, necrotic [x]

exhausted, fatigued, weary, worn out, drained, spent, beat, pooped, knackered, shattered, bushed, tuckered out, dead tired, bone-tired, wiped out, zonked, all in, done in, out of gas, run-down, frazzled, sapped, enervated, kaput, whacked, jaded, flagging, prostrated, tapped out, fagged, petered out, tuckered, dead beat, out on one's feet, played out, done for, out of steam, out of puff, out of breath, out of energy, out of juice, out of wind [x]

deteriorated, diminished, debased, corrupted, impaired, worsened, declined, weakened, tainted, marred, defiled, tarnished, eroded, degenerated, vitiated, devalued, cheapened, polluted, sullied, spoiled, ruined, ravaged, ravished, disfigured, blemished, broken down, fallen, reduced, lowered, abased, humiliated, shamed, disgraced, dishonored, demoted, downgraded, declassed, demeaned, mortified, humbled, abject, inferior, substandard, second-rate, inferiorized, lessened, enfeebled, enervated, debauched [x]

isolation, solitude, privacy, withdrawal, retreat, remoteness, aless, separateness, detachment, sequestering, segregation, quarantine, cloistering, confinement, reclusiveness, apartness, insulation, hermitage, sequester [x]

inoperative, unusable, nonworking, broken, out of order malfunctioning, defective down, inactive, kaput, nonfunctional [x]

degraded, worsened, declined, degenerated, decayed, weakened, impaired, eroded, corroded, spoiled, tarnished,, ruined, dilapidated, decomposed, crumbled, collapsed, disintegrated, perished, withered, atrophied, enfeebled, debased, vitiated, depreciated, retrogressed, devolved, broken down, fallen apart, gone to seed, gone downhill, in disrepair, in decline, in ruins, in tatters, in a bad state, in poor condition, in a sorry state, in shambles, in a state of decay, in a state of disrepair, in a state of neglect, in a state of ruin, in a state of collapse, in a state of degradation, in a state of deterioration, in a state of disintegration, in a state of dilapidation, in a state of decomposition, in a state of erosion [x]

waver, dither, vacillate, falter, oscillate, fluctuate, be indecisive, be uncertain, be unsure, be ambivalent, be torn, be in two minds, be on the fence, hem and haw, equivocate, temporize, procrastinate, delay, stall, hesitate, pause, be irresolute, be tentative, be doubtful, be hesitant, be conflicted, be in a quandary, be in a dilemma, be in a state of flux, be in a state of doubt, be in a state of uncertainty, be in a state of indecision, be in a state of ambivalence, be in a state of vacillation, be in a state of oscillation, be in a state of fluctuation, be in a state of faltering, be in a state of wavering, be in a state of dithering, be in a state of procrastination, be in a state of temporization, be in a state of equivocation, be in a state of stalling, be in a state of pausing, be in a state of irresolution, be in a state of tentativeness, be in a state of doubtfulness, be in a state of conflict [x]

taper, wane, dwindle, abate, lessen, decrease, reduce, subside, decline, fade, recede, shrink, contract, ebb, peter out, die down, die away, ease off, slacken, relent, attenuate, thin out, weaken, mitigate, moderate, lower, curtail, diminish, dwindle away, fall off, drop off, tail off, melt away, evaporate, wither, shrink away, fade away, ebb away, recede away, die out, ease up, slack off, subside away, lessen away, reduce away, decrease away, abate away [x]