Associations to the word «Diminishing»
Noun
- Curve
- Popularity
- Importance
- Increase
- Growing
- Return
- Variation
- Productivity
- Convection
- Vitality
- Speck
- Shrinking
- Decrease
- Intensity
- Dopamine
- Proportion
- Urbanization
- Substitution
- Martian
- Scheme
- Effectiveness
- Conserve
- Supply
- Decline
- Inequality
- Quantity
- Extinction
- Commodity
- Rapidity
- Resource
- Emigration
- Looming
- Numbers
- Saturation
- Utility
- Stench
- Tendency
- Radiance
- Consumption
- Trend
- Efficiency
- Friction
- Increment
- Output
- Input
- Breathing
- Fertility
- Velocity
- Wage
- Growl
- Distance
- Property
- Fertilizer
- Economist
- Yield
- Fathom
- Storm
- Demand
- Inflation
- Prospect
Adjective
Wiktionary
DIMINISHING, adjective. Becoming smaller
DIMINISHING, verb. Present participle of diminish
DIMINISHING, noun. A diminishment.
DIMINISHING RETURNS, noun. (idiomatic) A condition in which additional inputs into an organization, project or process produce progressively fewer or lower-quality additional outputs, and may, in extreme cases, cause the total quantity or quality of outputs to decrease.
Dictionary definition
DIMINISHING, adjective. Becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so; "diminishing returns"; "his diminishing respect for her".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.