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Antonyms for de scent
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : dih-sent |
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsɛnt |
- abstention
- accomplishment
- achievement
- addition
- ascension
- ascent
- attainment
- betterment
- blessing
- boon
- boost
- building
- calm
- climax
- close
- completion
- conclusion
- consequence
- construction
- continuity
- creation
- death
- decline
- delight
- descendant
- destiny
- development
- effect
- elevation
- end
- ending
- enlargement
- entertainment
- evenness
- expansion
- fact
- finale
- finish
- fortune
- fun
- goal
- good fortune
- growth
- happiness
- health
- idleness
- improvement
- incline
- increase
- insertion
- introduction
- laziness
- letting go
- level
- lowness
- morality
- mound
- mountain
- outcome
- outgrowth
- parent
- peace
- perfection
- pleasure
- progress
- promotion
- release
- result
- retreat
- rise
- solid
- speech
- strength
- strengthening
- success
- surrender
- termination
- triumph
- truth
- unemployment
- upgrade
- victory
- wellness
- win
- withdrawal
- yielding
Definition of de scent
Origin :- c.1300, from Old French descente "descent, descendance, lineage," formed from descendre (see descend) on analogy of French nouns such as attente from attendre "to expect," vente "sale" from vendre "to sell," pente "slope" from pendre "to hang" (the etymological English word from Latin would be *descence).
- Figurative use is from late 14c. Meaning "action of descending," also "a downward slope" is from 1590s. Meaning "act of descending from an ancestor" is from mid-14c. Evolutionary sense is from 1859 in Darwin, though there are uses which suggest essentially the same thing going back to 1630s.
- As in incline : noun slope
- As in lapse : noun backsliding
- As in line : noun ancestry
- As in lineage : noun ancestry
- As in origin : noun family, heritage
- As in pedigree : noun ancestry, heritage
- As in plunge : noun quick drop; enthusiastic attempt
- As in raid : noun attack, seizure
- As in roots : noun ancestry
- As in slope : noun slant, tilt
- As in slump : noun decline, failure
- As in stock : noun ancestry
- As in strain : noun ancestry
- As in birth : noun heritage
- As in declivity : noun slope
- As in blood : noun ancestry
- As in bloodline : noun ancestry
- As in downslide : noun decline
- As in downswing : noun decline
- As in dropoff : noun decline
- As in header : noun plunge
- As in menage : noun family
- As in nosedive : noun plunge
- As in nosedive : noun fall
- As in class : noun societal group, background
- As in parentage : noun ancestry
- As in recidivation : noun lapse
- As in recidivism : noun lapse
- As in comedown : noun letdown, blow
- As in decline : noun lessening
- As in decline : noun downward change in value, position
- As in derivation : noun root, source
- As in descent : noun moving down; lowering
- As in descent : noun line of ancestry
- As in descent : noun deterioration
- As in descent : noun assault, attack
- As in deterioration : noun decay, degeneration
- As in dip : noun depression; decline
- As in discomfiture : noun embarrassment, frustration
- As in downfall : noun disgrace, ruin
- As in downgrade : noun slope
- As in downturn : noun drop
- As in drop : noun steep decline; hole
- As in drop : noun decrease
- As in extraction : noun ancestry, origin
- As in family : noun kin, offspring; classification
- As in family tree : noun genealogical chart
- As in foray : noun incursion, attempt
- As in ancestry : noun family predecessors; family history
- As in genealogy : noun person's family tree
- As in antecedent(s) : noun predecessor(s) in family
- As in grade : noun incline, slope
- As in anticlimax : noun ineffective conclusion
- I speck, when I git in de water, to frow de dogs off de scent, but dey git so near dey see and hear me.
- Extract from : « Watch and Wait » by Oliver Optic
- Run fo' de branch—git yo' foots in de worter an' fling 'em off de scent!
- Extract from : « Danny's Own Story » by Don Marquis
Synonyms for de scent
- abasement
- abashment
- abatement
- abruptness
- abyss
- acclivity
- adulteration
- advance
- agitation
- ancestor
- ancestors
- ancestral tree
- ancestry
- antecedent
- antecessor
- anticlimax
- approach
- arrest
- ascent
- assault
- atrophy
- attack
- background
- backslide
- backsliding
- bad period
- bad times
- bane
- bank
- basin
- basis
- bathos
- beating
- beginning
- beginnings
- belly flop
- bend
- bevel
- bias
- birth
- birthplace
- blight
- blood
- blood line
- bloodline
- blow
- blue devils
- blue funk
- bottom
- bourgeoisie
- break-in
- breakdown
- breed
- breeding
- brood
- bust
- cadence
- caliber
- cant
- capture
- caste
- cave-in
- chagrin
- chasm
- children
- circle
- clan
- class
- climb
- clique
- cloudburst
- club
- coast
- collapse
- comedown
- comeuppance
- coming down
- company
- concavity
- condition
- confusion
- connection
- conquest
- consanguinity
- corrosion
- coterie
- crash
- cropper
- crumbling
- cultural level
- cut
- debacle
- debasement
- decadence
- decay
- decaying
- declension
- declination
- decline
- declivity
- decomposition
- decrease
- decrepitude
- deepness
- defeasance
- defeat
- deflation
- deflection
- degeneracy
- degeneration
- degradation
- degree
- degringolade
- deluge
- demoralization
- demotion
- depreciation
- depredation
- depression
- depth
- derivation
- descendants
- descent
- destruction
- deterioration
- devaluation
- deviation
- devolution
- diagonal
- dilapidation
- diminution
- dip
- disappointment
- discomfiture
- discomposure
- disconcertion
- disconcertment
- disintegration
- dislocation
- disquiet
- disrepair
- dissolution
- dive
- down
- downcome
- downer
- downfall
- downgrade
- downslide
- downswing
- downtick
- downtrend
- downturn
- downward slope
- droop
- drop
- drop-off
- duck
- dumps
- dunk
- dwindling
- dynasty
- ebb
- ebbing
- elevation
- embankment
- enfeeblement
- estate
- etymology
- extraction
- failing
- failure
- fall
- fall-off
- falling
- falling off
- falling-off
- falloff
- family
- family history
- family tree
- flood
- flop
- folk
- foray
- forced entrance
- forebear
- forebears
- forefather
- forefather/mother
- foregoer
- foremother
- forerunner
- foundation
- funk
- genealogical chart
- genealogical tree
- genealogy
- generation
- generations
- genetics
- genre
- grade
- gradient
- group
- hard times
- header
- height
- heirs and assigns
- heredity
- heritage
- heritance
- hierarchy
- high dive
- hill
- history
- hit-and-run
- hole
- hollow
- house
- household
- humiliation
- immersion
- in-laws
- inception
- inclination
- incline
- inclined plane
- incursion
- influence
- inheritance
- inroad
- intelligentsia
- invasion
- investment
- irruption
- issue
- jump
- kin
- kind
- kindred
- kinship
- kith and kin
- landslide
- lapse
- league
- lean
- leaning
- legacy
- lessening
- letdown
- level
- line
- line of descent
- lineage
- loss
- low
- lowering
- maternity
- ménage
- moiety
- network
- nobility
- nose dive
- nose-dive
- nosedive
- obliqueness
- obliquity
- offspring
- on the rocks
- on the skids
- onset
- onslaught
- origin
- overthrow
- parentage
- paternity
- pathos
- pecking order
- pedigree
- people
- perturbation
- perversion
- pigeonhole
- pitch
- place
- plane
- plummet
- plummeting
- plunge
- plunging
- position
- pounce
- pratfall
- precipice
- precipitation
- precursor
- prestige
- primogenitor
- progenitor
- progenitors
- progeniture
- progeny
- prolapse
- provenance
- provenience
- pull
- quality
- race
- rack and ruin
- raid
- rainy days
- ramp
- rank
- recession
- recidivation
- recidivism
- reconnaissance
- reduction
- regression
- relapse
- relations
- relationship
- relatives
- retreat
- retrogradation
- retrogression
- reverse
- rise
- rising ground
- road to ruin
- rotting
- roundup
- rout
- ruin
- ruination
- rut
- sag
- sally
- sect
- seed
- senility
- setback
- settlement
- shame
- shelf
- shootup
- siblings
- sink
- sinkage
- sinkhole
- sinking
- skew
- skid
- skids
- slant
- slide
- slip
- slope
- slump
- social rank
- sortie
- source
- species
- sphere
- spill
- spin-off
- spoiling
- spree
- stagnation
- standing
- state
- station
- status
- steepness
- stemma
- stirps
- stock
- storm
- strain
- stratum
- subdivision
- submergence
- submersion
- succession
- surprise attack
- swag
- sway
- sweep
- swoop
- system
- tailspin
- tangent
- the right stuff
- the skids
- tier
- tilt
- tip
- tipover
- title
- topple
- tree
- tribe
- trough
- tumble
- type
- undoing
- unease
- uneasiness
- upgrade
- upset
- vanquishment
- variety
- venture
- vexation
- vitiation
- wane
- waning
- weakening
- well
- wellspring
- whence it came
- worsening
- wreck
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