Synonyms of downscale

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verb

as in to reduce

to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent

the poor economy forced the plant to downscale production

Synonyms & Similar Words

• reduce
• decrease
• lower
• downsize
• deplete
• diminish
• ease
• minimize
• lessen
• dent
• dwindle
• abate
• compress
• slash
• knock down
• cut
• drop
• shrink
• de-escalate
• curtail
• retrench
• pare
• trim
• cut down
• truncate
• shorten
• condense
• crop
• constrict
• modify
• cut back
• abbreviate
• modulate
• abridge
• prune
• whittle
• dock
• deflate
• moderate
• clip
• contract
• qualify
• nick

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• increase
• expand
• augment
• enlarge
• amplify
• raise
• escalate
• boost
• inflate
• extend
• swell
• add (to)
• prolong
• dilate
• elongate
• blow up
• enhance
• complement
• supplement
• aggrandize
• lengthen
• intensify
• heighten
• distend
• protract
• redouble

downscale

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adjective

as in down-market

Synonyms & Similar Words

• down-market
• déclassé
• working-class
• poor
• middle-class
• plain
• bourgeois
• simple
• lower-class
• proletarian
• plebeian
• inferior
• lowly
• humble
• ignoble
• lumpen
• low-life
• vulgar
• unwashed
• common
• mean
• prole
• lowborn
• low
• baseborn

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• genteel
• upper-class
• high
• aristocratic
• grand
• great
• patrician
• noble
• lofty
• gentle
• upper-crust
• prominent
• highbred
• blue-blooded
• wellborn
• notable
• eminent
• illustrious
• highborn