dwindling
Getting ever smaller
Dwindling describes something gradually shrinking, diminishing, or becoming less.
Resources dwindle, populations dwindle, hopes dwindle: Their dwindling savings forced them to sell the house.
The word emphasizes slow decline rather than sudden loss—a candle burns down, a crowd thins out, enthusiasm fades.
She watched her dwindling options with growing alarm.
Gradually declining or receding
- waningGradually decreasing in intensity
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- taperingProgressive decrease in width
- subsidingDecreasing in intensity
receding · abating · slackening · attenuating · trailing off · petering out · dying down · tailing off
Reduction of supply
- decreaseBecome or make smaller
- reductionMaking something smaller
- shrinkageDecrease in size
- declineDecrease or refuse
drop · contraction · diminution · lessening · curtailment · downsizing · attrition · erosion
Economic decline period
- declineDecrease or refuse
- slumpExtended period of decline
- downswingDeclining phase or movement
- recessionProlonged economic decline
descent · slide · drop-off · downfall · regression · deterioration · contraction · depression
Ceasing to be visible
- disappearingCeasing to be visible
- dissolvingPassing into solution
- evanescenceGradual disappearance from existence
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
dying out · fading away · passing · expiring · perishing · twilight · sunset · end
ebbing
Gradually declining or receding
- waningGradually decreasing in intensity
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- taperingProgressive decrease in width
subsiding · receding · abating · slackening · attenuating · trailing off · petering out · dying down · tailing off · phasing out
depletion
Reduction of supply
decline · drop · contraction · diminution · lessening · curtailment · downsizing · attrition · erosion · depreciation
downturn
Economic decline period
recession · descent · slide · drop-off · downfall · regression · deterioration · contraction · depression · dip
vanishing
Ceasing to be visible
- disappearingCeasing to be visible
- dissolvingPassing into solution
- evanescenceGradual disappearance from existence
extinction · dying out · fading away · passing · expiring · perishing · twilight · sunset · end · demise
- declinedecline, in decline, decrease, downswing, on the decline
- decliningdeclining, waning, fading, diminishing, decreasing
- decreasesreduction, decline, drop, fall, decrease
- gradual declinefading, waning, diminishing, ebbing, declining
- Reduceshrink, diminish, decrease, lessen, reduce
- reducingshrinking, lessening, diminishing, decreasing, cutting back
dwindlinggrowing
Increasing or enlarging
increasing · expanding · accumulating · multiplying · burgeoning
dwindlingflourishing
Prospering vigorously
thriving · blooming · blossoming · prospering · booming