All lowering synonyms
low·er·ing
L l adj lowering
- threatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
- menacing — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- heavy — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- overcast — overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy: an overcast day.
- gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- ominous — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
noun lowering
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
- falloff — a decline in quantity, vigor, etc.
- sinkage — the act, process, amount, or degree of sinking.
- cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
- demotion — to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote): They demoted the careless waiter to busboy.
- drop-off — a vertical or very steep descent: The trail has a drop-off of several hundred feet.
- cutback — A cutback is a reduction that is made in something.
- belt-tightening — If you need to do some belt-tightening, you must spend less money and manage without things because you have less money than you used to have.
- downtrend — a downward or decreasing tendency, movement, or shift: a downtrend in gasoline consumption; a downtrend in stock prices.
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.