deciduous

The word “deciduous” has 4 syllables: de-cid-u-ous

It's pronounced as /dɪˈsɪdʒ.u.əs/


What is synonym and antonym for deciduous?

In the thesaurus, “deciduous” has 41 synonyms and 28 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for deciduous along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for deciduous

  • acting
  • brief
  • changeable
  • emigrating
  • ephemeral
  • evanescent
  • flash
  • fleeting
  • flitting
  • fly-by-night
  • flying
  • fugacious
  • fugitive
  • going by
  • gone in a heartbeat
  • impermanent
  • insubstantial
  • interim
  • little
  • migrating
  • momentary
  • moving
  • of short duration
  • over in a heartbeat
  • passing
  • provisional
  • quick
  • short
  • short-haul
  • short-lived
  • short-run
  • short-term
  • shortish
  • temporal
  • temporary
  • transient
  • transitory
  • transmigratory
  • unstable
  • vacating
  • volatile

Antonyms for deciduous

  • ceaseless
  • continuing
  • dateless
  • deathless
  • durable
  • endless
  • enduring
  • eternal
  • ethereal
  • everlasting
  • immortal
  • imperishable
  • incessant
  • indefectible
  • indestructible
  • lasting
  • lengthy
  • lifelong
  • long
  • long-lasting
  • long-lived
  • neverending
  • permanent
  • perpetual
  • persistent
  • timeless
  • undying
  • unending

Meanings of deciduous

  • adjective
    1. Describing a part that falls off, or is shed, at a particular time or stage of development.
    2. Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.
    3. Transitory, ephemeral, not lasting.

Example Sentences

  • The forest was full of deciduous trees that turned brilliant colors in autumn.
  • Unlike evergreens, deciduous trees lose their leaves every year.
  • We studied the life cycle of a deciduous tree in science class.
  • The yard needed extra cleanup in fall because of the deciduous leaves.
  • Some animals rely on deciduous forests for food and shelter during specific seasons.

On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to deciduous, such as: acting, brief, ceaseless, changeable, continuing, dateless, deathless.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

vacating

impermanent

  • acting
  • ad interim
  • alternate
  • brief
  • conditional
  • contingent
  • deciduous
  • ephemeral
  • evanescent
  • expedient
  • flash
  • fleeting
  • fugacious
  • fugitive
  • improvised
  • interim
  • intermediary
  • intermediate
  • limited
  • little
  • makeshift
  • momentary
  • passing
  • perishable
  • provisional
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  • proxy
  • qualified
  • replaceable
  • short
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  • short-range
  • short-term
  • shortish
  • substitute
  • temporary
  • tentative
  • terminable
  • terminate
  • transient
  • transitional
  • transitory

passing

  • a lot
  • abating
  • abjuring
  • absolutely
  • abundantly
  • accepting
  • achingly
  • acting
  • administering
  • advancing
  • advertising
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  • airing
  • alleging
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  • almighty
  • altogether
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  • annihilation
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  • appreciably
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  • archly
  • arising
  • articulating
  • as all get-out
  • assassination
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  • astonishingly
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  • chancing
  • chirping
  • closing
  • clothing
  • colossally
  • coming
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  • commending
  • commenting
  • committing
  • completely
  • concluding
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  • contradicting
  • controverting
  • cooking
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  • cracking
  • cursory
  • curtains
  • cutting out
  • damn
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  • dang
  • dead-ending
  • deadly
  • death
  • decease
  • deciduous
  • declaring
  • declining
  • decreeing
  • deeply
  • defunction
  • delegating
  • delivering
  • demise
  • denying
  • deselecting
  • desperately
  • destruction
  • determining
  • detouring
  • developing
  • dictating
  • digesting
  • disallowing
  • disapproving
  • disavowing
  • discernibly
  • disclaiming
  • discontinuing
  • discussing
  • disdaining
  • dismissing
  • disowning
  • dispensing
  • dispersing
  • disproving
  • disputing
  • dissolution
  • distributing
  • dividing
  • doing
  • doom
  • downright
  • drawling
  • dying
  • effecting
  • elapsing
  • eminently
  • enacting
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  • end
  • ending
  • enduring
  • enormously
  • entirely
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  • enunciating
  • ephemeral
  • especially
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  • ever
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  • exceptionally
  • excessively
  • executing
  • execution
  • exit
  • experiencing
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  • extra
  • extremely
  • fabulously
  • falling out
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  • fiercely
  • filthy
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  • flash
  • flat-out
  • fleeting
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  • formulating
  • formulizing
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  • frightfully
  • fugacious
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  • full
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  • furnishing
  • gainsaying
  • gasping
  • getting off
  • getting through
  • giving
  • giving over
  • giving up
  • glancing
  • going
  • going down
  • going off
  • going on
  • going over
  • going through
  • good and
  • grandly
  • granting
  • grave
  • great divide
  • greatly
  • halting
  • handing
  • handing down
  • handing in
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  • handling
  • happening
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  • heavily
  • highly
  • holding up
  • holding water
  • hugely
  • ignoring
  • immensely
  • impermanent
  • incredibly
  • intensely
  • interim
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  • intrusting
  • jolly
  • killing
  • knocking off
  • knowing
  • lapsing
  • laying down
  • leaving
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  • legislating
  • lending
  • letting up
  • lipping
  • little
  • loaning
  • looking
  • loss
  • majorly
  • making
  • markedly
  • martyrdom
  • massacre
  • materializing
  • meeting
  • mightily
  • mighty
  • momentary
  • monstrous
  • monstrously
  • monumentally
  • mortally
  • most
  • mouthing
  • much
  • murmuring
  • negating
  • negativing
  • nixing
  • notably
  • noticeably
  • obscenely
  • obviously
  • occurring
  • ordaining
  • overmuch
  • overruling
  • palpably
  • particularly
  • passage
  • passing muster
  • passing up
  • pausing
  • pawing
  • permitting
  • phrasing
  • plainly
  • playing
  • plentifully
  • positively
  • posting
  • proceeding
  • proclaiming
  • profoundly
  • prohibiting
  • promulgating
  • proscribing
  • provisional
  • publicizing
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  • purely
  • purring
  • putting
  • putting into words
  • quick
  • quietus
  • quitting
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  • ratifying
  • rattling
  • reaching
  • real
  • really
  • rebuffing
  • rebutting
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • receiving
  • recommending
  • recommitting
  • redelivering
  • reenacting
  • refusing
  • refuting
  • rejecting
  • relaying
  • releasing
  • relinquishing
  • remarkably
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  • rendering
  • reneging
  • renouncing
  • repassing
  • reposing
  • reprobating
  • repudiating
  • resulting
  • retracting
  • retransferring
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  • revoking
  • right
  • rising
  • roaring
  • roaringly
  • ruin
  • sanctioning
  • saying
  • scorning
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  • seeing
  • self-destruction
  • self-murder
  • self-slaughter
  • seriously
  • severely
  • shallow
  • sharing
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • short
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  • short-term
  • shortish
  • shouting
  • significantly
  • silence
  • slaughter
  • sleep
  • slight
  • snarling
  • so
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  • speaking
  • specially
  • spluttering
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  • staggeringly
  • stalling
  • standing up
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  • stinking
  • stopping
  • submitting
  • substantially
  • such
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  • suicide
  • super
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  • supplying
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  • taking
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  • talking
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  • temporary
  • terminating
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  • terribly
  • that
  • thoroughly
  • throwing out
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  • thumping
  • too
  • totally
  • transferring
  • transient
  • transitory
  • transmitting
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  • trusting
  • turning down
  • turning in
  • turning out
  • turning over
  • unco
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  • undergoing
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  • uttering
  • utterly
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  • ventilating
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  • vetoing
  • visibly
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  • way
  • whacking
  • whispering
  • wholly
  • wicked
  • wildly
  • willing
  • winding down
  • winding up
  • withdrawing
  • witnessing
  • wording
  • working
  • yielding

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