Descent

Noun

 * 1) An instance of descending
 * We climbed the mountain with difficulty, but the descent was easier.
 * 1) A way down.
 * We had difficulty in finding the correct descent.
 * 1) A sloping passage or incline.
 * The descent into the cavern was wet and slippery.
 * 1) Lineage or hereditary derivation
 * Our guide was of Welsh descent.
 * 1) A drop to a lower status or condition.
 * After that, the holiday went into a steep descent.

Adjectives for Descent
rapid; direct; steep; aristocratic; hasty; gradual; rocky; pitiless; precipitous; stately; deep; smooth; laborious; graceful; harsh; unblemished; ladderlike; armed; sheer; illustrious; dateless; artistic; pompous; actual; noble; maternal; barbarous; flashing;  uninterrupted;  royal;  divine; fearsome; slow.

Verbs for Descent
attempt—; balk at—; ease—; dread—; flow upon—; halt—; hazard—; hinder—; manage—; menace—; observe—; plan—; point for—; prepare—; prevent—; resume—; venture—; —dizzies; —frightens; — sharpens; —slopes.

Synonyms for Descent
declivity, slope, decline, degradation, fall, slant, extraction, debasement, origin, lineage, pedigree, ancestry, genesis.

Antonyms for Descent

 * ascent, climb, rise
 * elevation, ascension, mounting, upgrade.

Related terms

 * descend

Thesaurus
Brownian movement, Indian file, abasement, advance, affiliation, altitude peak, angular motion, apparentation, array, articulation, ascending, ascent, automatic control, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backset, backward motion, bank, birth, blast-off, blood, bloodline, branch, breed, brood, burn, burnout, buzz, career, catena, catenation, ceiling, chain, chain reaction, chaining, characterize, check, children, climbing, comedown, coming after, common ancestry, communicate, concatenation, concavity, connection, consanguinity, consecution, consecutiveness, construe, continuation, continuity, continuum, course, current, cycle, de-escalation, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, declivity, deflation, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, delineate, demotion, depict, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, depression, derivation, derogation, descendants, descending, describe, deterioration, detrusion, devolution, diminution, dip, direct line, discomfiture, disgrace, distaff side, distinguish, down, downgate, downgrade, downhill, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward motion, downward trend, drift, driftage, drone, drop, ducking, dump, dying, ebb, ebbing, effeteness, elucidate, embarrassment, end of burning, endless belt, endless round, exemplify, explain, explicate, expound, extension, extraction, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, family, female line, file, filiation, flight, flow, flux, following, forward motion, fruit, gamut, gradation, grade, gradient, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, hang, hangdog look, hanging, hauling down, heirs, hollowness, hostages to fortune, house, hum, humbled pride, humiliation, ignition, illustrate, image, impact, impart, incline, inheritors, interpret, involution, issue, kids, lapse, launch, letdown, lift-off, limn, line, line of descent, lineage, little ones, logical sequence, loss of tone, lowering, male line, monotone, mortification, mounting, narrate, new generation, nexus, oblique motion, offspring, ongoing, onrush, order, order of succession, origin, passage, pedigree, pendulum, periodicity, phylum, picture, plenum, plummeting, plunging, portray, posteriority, posterity, postposition, powder train, procession, progeny, progress, progression, prolongation, put-down, queue, race, radial motion, random motion, range, rank, recite, recount, recurrence, reduction, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, rehearse, render, report, reticulation, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune, rise, rising, rising generation, rocket launching, rotation, round, routine, row, run, rush, scale, seed, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, sept, sequence, series, set, setback, setdown, severe check, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shoot, shot, side, sideward motion, single file, sinking, slippage, slope, slump, soaring, sons, spear side, spectrum, spindle side, state, stem, sternway, stirps, stock, strain, stream, string, subjunction, submergence, subsiding, succession, successiveness, suffixation, swath, sword side, thread, throwback, thrusting under, tier, train, traject, trajectory, trajet, transmit, treasures, trend, upward motion, velocity peak, wane, windrow, younglings, youngsters

Etymology
< and  descente: <  descendre:; see descend. Compare ascent, ascend.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: dissent
 * Homophones: dissent
 * Homophones: dissent

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, спускане
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:


 * Polish: zejście
 * Portuguese: descida
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:


 * Polish: zejście, droga w dół
 * Russian: спуск
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Bulgarian: нанадолнище
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Polish: zejście, droga w dół


 * Arabic: (aṣl)
 * Bulgarian: произход
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:


 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Italian: ascendenza
 * Polish: pochodzenie
 * Portuguese: ascendência ; origem, descendência
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Bulgarian: понижение
 * Croatian:


 * Czech:
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Anagrams

 * scented