Word.ws English Dictionary

scale down

scale down verb: to reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion.

Verb

scale down (third-person singular simple present scales down, present participle scaling down, simple past and past participle scaled down)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion.
    Antonyms:
    scale up
  2. (transitive) To reduce the cost or scope of a process, or the amount spent on something.
    Synonyms:
    scale back
    Antonyms:
    scale up, scale out

Synonyms of scale down

Antonyms

Forms of scale down

third-person singular presentscales down
present participlescaling down
past participlescaled down
pastscaled down

Words formed from scale down

Questions about scale down

What does scale down mean?
Scale down means to reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion.
What part of speech is scale down?
Scale down is a verb.
What is the past tense of scale down?
The past tense of scale down is scaled down.

Words near scale down in the dictionary

  1. scale bars
  2. scale cube
  3. scale cubes
  4. scale degree
  5. scale degrees
  6. scale down
  7. Scale Hall
  8. scale height
  9. scale heights
  10. scale in
  11. scale insect

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scale down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “scale down.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scale_down. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.