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Breeding - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | breeding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivation of person |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, civility, conduct, courtesy, culture, development, gentility, grace, lineage, manners, nurture, polish, refinement, training, upbringing, raising, rearing, schooling, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | generate, bring into being |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, bring about, cause, create, deliver, engender, hatch, impregnate, induce, make, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, propagate, reproduce, bring forth, give birth to, give rise to, progenerate |
| Antonyms: | not produce |
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise, nurture |
| Synonyms: | bring up, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, foster, instruct, nourish, rear |
| Main Entry: | ancestry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family predecessors; family history |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, blood, breed, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, forebear, forefather, forerunner, genealogy, heritage, house, kindred, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, precursor, progenitor, race, source, stock, antecessor, foregoer, foremother, parentage, primogenitor |
| Main Entry: | background |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | experience or circumstances |
| Synonyms: | actions, atmosphere, attainment, aura, backdrop, breeding, capacity, credentials, cultivation, culture, education, environment, framework, history, practice, preparation, qualification, seasoning, tradition, training, upbringing, accomplishments, acquirement, deeds, grounding, rearing |
| Antonyms: | foreground |
| Main Entry: | decorum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriate behavior, good manners |
| Synonyms: | breeding, civility, conduct, convention, correctness, decency, demeanor, deportment, dignity, etiquette, form, formality, gentility, gravity, order, politeness, propriety, protocol, punctilio, respectability, tact, usage, convenance, correctitude, courtliness, good grace, habits, orderliness, politesse, properness, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | bad manners, indecency, rudeness, bad behavior, impoliteness |
| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instruction, development of knowledge |
| Synonyms: | background, brainwashing*, breeding, civilization, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, indoctrination, information, learning, literacy, nurture, preparation, reading, refinement, scholarship, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring, apprenticeship, book learning, catechism, coaching, drilling, inculcation, learnedness, pedagogy, propagandism, proselytism, rearing, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elegance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivated beauty, taste |
| Synonyms: | breeding, charm, class, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, felicity, gentility, grace, grandeur, hauteur, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, polish, politeness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, symmetry, courtliness, exquisiteness, good taste, gracefulness, lushness, noblesse, ornateness, poshness, sumptuousness, tastefulness |
| Antonyms: | roughness, ugliness, crudeness, inelegance, poor taste |
| Main Entry: | farming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | producing crops, raising animals |
| Synonyms: | agriculture, breeding, cultivation, culture, gardening, grazing, growing, harvesting, landscaping, operating, production, threshing, agronomics, agronomy, crop-raising, feeding, fertilizing, geoponics, gleaning, homesteading, hydroponics, ranching, reaping, seeding, share-cropping, soil culture, tillage |
| Main Entry: | fecund |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive |
| Synonyms: | breeding, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, prolific, rich, teeming, fructiferous, generating, proliferant, propagating, reproducing, spawning |
| Antonyms: | impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | fertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, fecund, flowering, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, plentiful, pregnant, producing, productive, prolific, rank, rich, teeming, virile, yielding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, feracious, flowing with milk and honey, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, plenteous, procreant, proliferant, puberal, pubescent, spawning, uberous, vegetative, with child |
| Antonyms: | barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | fruitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, blossoming, breeding, conducive, copious, effective, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, gainful, plentiful, profitable, profuse, prolific, rewarding, rich, successful, useful, worthwhile, childing, fructiferous, plenteous, proliferant, propagating, reproducing, spawning, well-spent |
| Antonyms: | barren, impotent, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | manners |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | polite, refined social behavior |
| Synonyms: | amenities, bearing, behavior, breeding, carriage, ceremony, civilities, comportment, conduct, courtesy, culture, decorum, demeanor, deportment, dignity, elegance, etiquette, formalities, good breeding, good form, mien, mores, p's and q's, polish, politeness, politesse, propriety, protocol, refinement, social graces, sophistication, taste, urbanity |
| Notes: | manner means a way of acting or behaving or how something is done; manners is socially correct behavior; a manor is the landed estate of a lord |
| Main Entry: | nurture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, nourishment |
| Synonyms: | breeding, care, diet, discipline, education, feed, food, instruction, nutriment, provender, provisions, subsistence, sustenance, training, upbringing, viands, victuals, edibles, rearing |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, ignorance, neglect, starvation |
| Main Entry: | prolific |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fruitful, productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, bountiful, breeding, copious, creative, fecund, fertile, luxuriant, profuse, rank, reproductive, rich, teeming, yielding, generating, generative, proliferant, reproducing, spawning, swarming |
| Antonyms: | barren, fruitless, impotent, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | reproduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something duplicated; duplication |
| Synonyms: | X-ray*, Xerox*, breeding, carbon*, carbon copy, clone, copy, ditto*, dupe*, facsimile, fake, flimsy, generation, imitation, increase, look-alike, mirror image*, multiplication, photocopy, photograph, picture, portrayal, print, procreation, proliferation, propagation, recreation, renewal, replica, revival, twin, Photostat, chip off old block, mimeo, mimeograph, offprint, pic, reduplication, reenactment, replication, reprinting, repro, stat, transcription |
| Antonyms: | original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | social graces |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good manners |
| Synonyms: | breeding, civility, consideration, courtesy, decorum, etiquette, manners, mores, politeness, protocol, tact, elegancies, formalities, polished manners, proper conduct, savoir vivre, table manners |
| Main Entry: | procreation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reproduction |
| Synonyms: | breeding, conception, generation, propagation, begetting, engenderment, impregnation |
| Main Entry: | civilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | culture, sophistication |
| Synonyms: | acculturation, advancement, breeding, civility, cultivation, development, edification, education, elevation, enlightenment, illumination, polish, progress, refinement, social well-being |
| Antonyms: | barbarism, primitiveness |
| Main Entry: | generation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, production |
| Synonyms: | bearing, breeding, formation, genesis, origination, procreation, propagation, reproduction, begetting, bringing forth, engenderment, fructifying, multiplying, spawning |
| Antonyms: | destruction |
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