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What is the adjective for declining?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb decline which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

declinate
  1. Bent downward or aside.
  2. (botany) Bending downward in a curve; declined.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “In the last-mentioned case they are called declinate, as in amaryllis, horse-chestnut and fraxinella.”
declinatory
  1. (law, obsolete or historical) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Motion for declinatory exception and forum non conveniens filed by the controlling shareholder of a Greek company.”
      “Motion for declinatory exception pertaining to a petition from trustee in bankruptcy for reimbursement of dividends.”
      “For these reasons, the court ruled in Société Asbestos that it is not premature to raise a motion for declinatory exception ratione materiae before the authorization to institute a class action has been ruled upon.”
declivitous
  1. Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The 32-metre-high Margit Lookout located in the settlement provides a magnificent panorama of the declivitous landscape.”
      “Elevated mounds, with steep declivitous sides, are found in places, rising abruptly out of the midst of a plain, to considerable heights.”
      “The landform along Neitung creek is also very complex and declivitous.”
declinal
  1. Having a decline or slope.
declivous
  1. sloping downward
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Pronotum weakly to strongly declivous anteriorly and usually with many asperate crenulations in anterior half.”
      “Pronotum scarcely declivous in anterior half, usually without crenulations except sometimes anterolaterally.”
      “Pronotum broad, declivous, striations on surface dense, distinct, and oblique.”
declinational
  1. Relating to declination.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Important also are planets that make contrasting declinational aspects versus the natal chart.”
      “Unless the zodiacal parallel is closely reflecting a declinational parallel, the former is unlikely to work so noticeably.”
      “This constituent expresses the effect of departure from a sinusoidal declinational motion.”
declensional
  1. (grammar) Pertaining to declension.
  2. Examples:
    1. “There are five declensional types in Latin, that are recognized by their terminations in genitive singular.”
      “According to Birkeland, this is a new development, reflecting a tendency to drop the declensional endings.”
      “Veron, Baret and Huloet-Higgins indicate the declensional patterns of nouns in Latin by providing the genitive singular form.”
declinable
  1. (grammar) Capable of being declined.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Year after year, his explanations of connecting vowels and genitives of nouns and declinable adjectives fell on deaf ears.”
      “The gender agreement rule is that, in the singular, the declinable premodifiers should agree with the gender of the head noun.”
      “Hence the last vowel of the nominative, or in general of any declinable word, may be called the characteristic vowel.”
declinous
declined
declining
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