🔄 Synonyms of "Decelerate"
4 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| retardverb | (offensive, dated) A person with mental retardation. |
| slowverb | Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed. |
| slow downverb | (transitive) To reduce the velocity, speed, or tempo of something. |
| slow upverb | (idiomatic, colloquial) To slow; to slow down; to decelerate. |
↔️ Antonyms of "Decelerate"
Words with the opposite meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| accelerateverb | (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of. |
| speednoun | The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion. |
| quickenverb | Senses relating to life or states of activity. |
| speed upverb | (idiomatic, intransitive) To accelerate; to increase speed. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Decelerate"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| slow downverb | (transitive) To reduce the velocity, speed, or tempo of something. |
| slow upverb | (idiomatic, colloquial) To slow; to slow down; to decelerate. |
| slowverb | Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed. |
| retardverb | (transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progressing. |
| slowdownnoun | A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, economic activity, etc. |
| reduceverb | (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. |
| deacceleratenoun | (nonstandard) Synonym of decelerate. |
| declinenoun | The act of declining or refusing something. |
| de-escalateverb | (ambitransitive) To decrease in intensity or magnitude. |
| downshiftnoun | A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding. |
| decoctnoun | (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down. |
| phase downverb | (transitive) To gradually reduce the size or scale of. |
| downvalueverb | (transitive) To reduce in value; to devalue. |
| drop offverb | (idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight. |
| decalesceverb | To undergo decalescence. |
| deescalateverb | Alternative form of de-escalate. [(ambitransitive) To decrease in intensity or magnitude.] |
| deflateverb | (transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre. |
| diminishverb | (transitive) To make smaller. |
| dial downverb | (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce or diminish in effect or intensity. |
| devaluateverb | (transitive) To devalue, reduce in value. |
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