receding

4.1

A hairline or chin that moves slowly back from the forehead so it looks less noticeable

adjective
/rɪˈsiːdɪŋ/

: recedente

Many young men worry about having a receding hairline as they approach their thirties.

Examples

Or D feeling his hairline receding in real time.
Your hairline is receding and you wonder why has life dealt me this hand?
I think this is like making it seem like I have a receding hairline.
It's done tremendous, but I used to have full head of Gray hair, receding hair, my hair going back, my skin back through stem cells.
And so yeah, OK, receding hairlines are great.
Contraction could follow expansion in the same way that a ball thrown into the air which is receding could fall back down.
Within the made-up story, you know the usual receding sequence and Cervantes, who is half beautiful and half horrible.
The hairline is receding, the face is gaunt, the neck is long and wrinkled.
Now it allows Cervantes to finish his volume of stories with one of his cherished infinitely receding sequences.
But if you're looking for like a doughy or midsection and, you know, extreme receding hairline and a very well manicured beard, then I'm, I'm your guy.

Compounds

receding hairline

6 4.1

A line of hair at the front that moves back as you lose hair

How Bald

bald

280 1.0

receding

4.1

balding

1 2.7

Surface Forms

receding positive

Morphology

receding = recede (transparent) = recede + ing

Meaning is directly derived from the verb 'recede' with the adjectival/participle '-ing' denoting something that is moving back or becoming less prominent.

Etymology

The word receding comes from the parts re- meaning 'back' and ced meaning 'go', the same part you see in proceed. So something receding is slowly 'going back' or moving away from its normal place, like a hairline or chin that becomes less forward.