What is another word for fallings?

Pronunciation: [fˈɔːlɪŋz] (IPA)

Fallings can be described in various ways depending on the context of usage. The synonyms that can be used for this word include drops, declines, decreases, plunges, lowers, slumps, descents, and divings. These words can be used interchangeably to give more vivid descriptions of the act of falling. For example, the stock market is experiencing a drastic decline in values could be modified as the stock market is experiencing a rapid descent in values. Similarly, the football team suffered a slump in their performance is interchangeable with the football team suffered a significant drop in their performance. The use of synonyms enhances the clarity, precision, and richness of language.

Usage examples for Fallings

And then come the strugglings and the down-fallings, and some of us learn our lesson, and some learn it not.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
I home, and there we to bed again, and slept pretty well, and about nine rose, and then my wife fell into her blubbering again, and at length had a request to make to me, which was, that she might go into France, and live there, out of trouble; and then all come out, that I loved pleasure and denied her any, and a deal of do; and I find that there have been great fallings out between my father and her, whom, for ever hereafter, I must keep asunder, for they cannot possibly agree.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
There lay among his papers letters too, and other "fallings from him," which he no doubt would have desired to suppress, but of which, if they have not all been made public, enough have appeared to justify his fears of that idle vanity, if not malevolence, which after his death, would rake up every scrap he had written, uncaring how it might injure his good name, or affect future generations of his admirers.
"Robert Burns"
Principal Shairp

Famous quotes with Fallings

  • For in that time He shewed our frailty and our fallings, our afflictings and our settings at nought, our despites and our outcastings, and all our woe so far forth as methought it might befall in this life. And therewith He shewed His blessed Might, His blessed Wisdom, His blessed Love: that He keepeth us in this time as tenderly and as sweetly to His worship, and as surely to our salvation, as He doeth when we are in most solace and comfort.
    Julian of Norwich

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