declension

declension is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
2. noun. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
3. noun. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
4. noun. Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
5. noun. The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
6. noun. Rehearsing a word as declined.
7. noun. a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms

   "the first declension in Latin"

8. noun. a downward slope or bend

   Synonyms: declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall

9. noun. process of changing to an inferior state

   Synonyms: deterioration, worsening

10. noun. the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

Synonyms

declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall, deterioration, worsening

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in declension:

indolences

Common word forms

declensions, declensional

Words from these letters

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