2. bombastic, high-flown, grandiose, grandiloquent, magniloquent, fustian, orotund, inflated, overblown,
declaration, n. 1. announcement, annunciation, publication; averment, asseveration, assertion, affirmation, avowal, avouchment; revelation, disclosure, divulgement, manifestation.
2. proclamation, pronouncement, manifesto, pro-nunciamento, promulgation, statement, formal or authoritative statement or announcement; notice, formal notice, notification,
declarative, adj. affirmative, assertive, positive, emphatic, decided; expressive, communicatory, declaratory; publicational, promulgatory, propagatory, pro-clamatory, annunciatory, enunciative; explanatory, expository.
declare, v. 1. announce, annunciate, publish, broadcast, herald, cry, blare, blazon, trumpet; pronounce, rule, decree, proclaim, promulgate.
2. state, aver, assert, asseverate, affirm, avow, avouch, set down, lay down, speak up or out, have one's way; maintain, contend, have, hold, insist, submit; allege, profess, claim; swear, predicate, attest, testify; certify, validate, ratify, confirm.
3. disclose, divulge, tell, give out, come out with, let out, make known, manifest, reveal.
decline, v. 1. deny, turndown, reject, refuse; frown upon, turn thumbs down on, negative, veto; resist, rebuff, repel, repudiate; spurn, shun, avoid; abstain from, forgo, do without.
2. dissent, demur, balk, protest; withhold consent, refuse, not budge, remain adamant, put one's foot down.
3. descend, drop off, slope, slant, sink, dip; incline, lean, tilt; depress, bend down, turn down.
4. wane, decrease, diminish; abate, let up, taper off, subside, ebb; fade away, evanesce, vanish, die out; approach an end, come to a close, Inf. peter out, wind down; obsolesce, be on the way out; dwindle, shrink, contract.
5. deteriorate, degenerate, decay; languish, flag, droop, sink, fail, weaken, die; shrivel, wither, molder, rot; waste away, melt away, fade away or out.
-n. 6. declivity, downward slope. See - declivity.
7. failing, weakening, weakness, debility; worsening, retrogression, regression, degeneration; deterioration, declination, decay, atrophy, wasting away; enfeeble-ment, senility, senescence, caducity, (of women) anility, decrepitude, dotage.
8. diminution, lessening, lowering; wane, subsidence, ebb, recession, fall-off, downturn, downtrend, downslide, downswing; slump, fall, drop-off, plunge, nosedive.
declivity, n. downward slope or slant, Scot. and North Eng. brae, hillside; decline, declension, descent, downgrade; drop, fall, dip; pitch, grade, angle; incline, hill, mount, rise,
decompose, v. 1. disintegrate, divide, atomize, dissolve, break up, fractionate; distill, reduce, resolve, separate, Physical Chem. electrolyze, Chem. hydrolyze; analyze, anatomize, dissect, take apart.
2. decay, rot, addle, putrefy; spoil, go bad, turn, sour; crumble, fall apart, fall to pieces,
decomposition, n. 1. disintegration, fractionation, division, atomization; distillation, reduction, resolution, separation, Physical Chem. electrolysis, Chem. hydrolysis, Biochem. proteolysis; analysis, anatomization, dissection.
2. decay, rot, rottenness, caries, cariosity, cariousness; spoilage, putrefaction, putrescence, putrescency, putridity, putridness.