waning

Thân thiện

The waning moon appears as a thin crescent in the night sky.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Decreasing in size, strength, or intensity: Describing something that is gradually becoming smaller, weaker, or less important.
   • (Of the moon) Decreasing in illumination: Specifically describing the period after a full moon when the visible, lit portion of the moon appears to get smaller each night.

2. Noun:

   • The process or fact of decreasing: The act of gradually becoming smaller, weaker, or less intense.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:

  • The company's waning influence was evident in the market. (The company's decreasing influence was evident.)
  • We watched the waning crescent moon from the observatory. (We watched the moon in its decreasing crescent phase.)

• Noun:

  • The waning of public support forced the government to reconsider its policy. (The decrease in public support forced a reconsideration.)
  • The natural cycle includes the waxing and waning of the tides. (The natural cycle includes the increasing and decreasing of the tides.)

Advanced Usage

• "On the wane": This common phrase means in a period of decline or decreasing in power, popularity, or intensity.
  • His interest in the project is on the wane. (His interest in the project is decreasing.)

Variants and Related Words

• Wane (verb): To decrease in size, intensity, or degree.
  • Enthusiasm for the idea began to wane after the first meeting.
• Waxing (adjective/noun): The opposite process; increasing in size, strength, or illumination (especially of the moon).

Synonyms

• Adjective/Noun (process): Declining, diminishing, fading, ebbing, shrinking, weakening.
• Noun (moon phase): Last quarter, old moon (specific phases within the waning period).

Antonyms

• Adjective/Noun: Waxing, growing, increasing, strengthening, intensifying.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases
   • after full moon comes the waning moon

Noun

1. a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent
   • the waning of his enthusiasm was obvious
   • the waxing and waning of the moon