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advancement - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | advancement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | promotion, progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, betterment, elevation, gain, growth, headway, improvement, preference, rise, amelioration, preferment, prelation, upgrading |
| Notes: | advance means 'steady progress' and stresses effective assisting in hastening a process or bringing about a desired end, while advancement suggests progression that is bigger, more, or beyond normal |
| Antonyms: | cessation, decline, descent, downfall, retreat, retrogression, stoppage, regression |
| Main Entry: | advancement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forward movement |
| Synonyms: | advance, gain, headway, march, progress, progression, anabasis |
| Antonyms: | cessation, decline, descent, halt, retreat, retrogression, return, reversion, stop, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | advocacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support for an idea or cause |
| Synonyms: | advancement, aid, assistance, backing, defense, encouragement, justification, promotion, propagation, proposal, recommendation, urging, campaigning for, championing, pleading for, promulgation, upholding |
| Antonyms: | attack, opposition, protest |
| Main Entry: | betterment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement |
| Synonyms: | advancement, mastery, progress, prosperity, amelioration, melioration, upgrading |
| Antonyms: | deterioration, impairment, unhealthiness, worsening |
| Main Entry: | cutting edge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leading position |
| Synonyms: | advancement, avant-garde, fore, forefront, front, innovation, invention, leading edge, new wave, pioneer, point, spearhead, van, vanguard, advance guard, front line, newest technology |
| Main Entry: | gain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acquisition, winnings |
| Synonyms: | accretion, accrual, accumulation, achievement, addition, advance, advancement, advantage, attainment, benefit, boost, buildup, cut, dividend, earnings, emolument, gravy*, growth, headway*, hike*, improvement, income, increase, increment, lucre, payoff, proceeds, produce, profit, progress, receipts, return, rise, share, take, up*, velvet*, yield, upping |
| Antonyms: | expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, loss, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | headway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, ground, improvement, increase, march, proficiency, progression, promotion, way, anabasis |
| Antonyms: | block, hindrance, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | improvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bettering; something bettered |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, reformation, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing, amelioration, meliorism, preferment, rectification, regeneration |
| Antonyms: | damage, decline, decrease, harm, hurt, injury, diminishing, weakening, worsening |
| Main Entry: | increment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small step toward gain |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, accrual, addition, advancement, augmentation, enlargement, increase, profit, raise, rise, supplement, accrument |
| Antonyms: | decrease, loss |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
| Synonyms: | ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, fullness, majority, manhood, mentality, perfection, prime, readiness, sophistication, wisdom, full bloom, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, postpubescence, prime of life, ripeness, womanhood |
| Antonyms: | childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | proficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, skillfulness |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, advance, advancement, aptitude, competence, dexterity, efficiency, expertise, facility, formula, green thumb, headway*, knack*, know-how*, knowledge, learning, mastery, moxie*, oil*, progress, right stuff*, savvy*, skill, stuff, talent, chops, expertness, makings, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | clumsiness, inability, incompetence, ineptness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | profit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gain |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, acquisition, advancement, advantage, augmentation, avail, benefit, bottom line*, earnings, gate*, goods*, gravy*, gross, harvest, income, interest, killing, lucre, net, output, percentage, proceeds, product, production, receipt, receipts, remuneration, return, revenue, saving, skim*, split*, surplus, take*, turnout, use, value, velvet*, yield, aggrandizement, cleanup, emoluments, outturn, takings, winnings |
| Antonyms: | loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | progression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, development, evolution, furtherance, growth, headway, improvement, promotion, amelioration, evolvement, forward march, getting ahead, giant strides, going forward, step forward |
| Main Entry: | upward mobility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | climbing in status |
| Synonyms: | advancement, climbing the corporate ladder, social climbing, social mobility, status seeking, vertical mobility |
| Main Entry: | advance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forward movement |
| Synonyms: | advancement, headway, impetus, motion, progress, progression |
| Antonyms: | halt, hesitation, recession, stop, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, lift, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, subsidy, sustenance, treatment, alleviation, leg up, ministration, shot in the arm |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction, blockage |
| 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: | convenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | availability, usefulness; useful thing |
| Synonyms: | accessibility, accessory, accommodation, advancement, advantage, aid, amenity, appliance, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, comfort, contribution, cooperation, decency, ease, enjoyment, facility, fitness, furtherance, help, life, luxury, means, ministry, promotion, relief, satisfaction, service, succor, suitability, support, use, utility, agreeableness, comforts, handiness, ministration, openness, opportuneness, receptiveness, serviceability, suitableness, time saver |
| Antonyms: | inconvenience, waste, inexpedience, inutility, unsuitability, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | course |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress, advance |
| Synonyms: | advancement, chain, continuity, development, flow, furtherance, line, manner, march, movement, order, plan, policy, procedure, program, progression, red tape*, row, scheme, sequel, sequence, series, string, succession, system, way, channels, consecution, polity, unfolding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | development |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
| Synonyms: | addition, advance, advancement, augmentation, boost, buildup, enlargement, evolution, expansion, flowering, hike, improvement, increase, increasing, maturing, maturity, ongoing, progress, progression, reinforcement, spread, spreading, adding to, adulthood, advancing, augmenting, chrysalis, developing, elaborating, evolvement, evolving, making progress, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, perfecting, reinforcing, ripening, unfolding, unraveling, upgrowth, upping |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, stoppage |
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