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aging - 12 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | aging |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | becoming older |
| Synonyms: | crumbling, fading, maturing, stale, waning, declining, developing, fermenting, getting along, getting on, mellowing, senescent, slumping, wearing out |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become older |
| Synonyms: | decline, deteriorate, develop, get along, grow, mature, mellow, push, ripen, wane, grow feeble, grow old, grow up, put mileage on |
| Notes: | epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time |
| Main Entry: | elderly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in old age |
| Synonyms: | aged, aging, ancient, gray*, hoary, old, retired, tired, venerable, been around, declining, long in tooth, lot of mileage, no spring chicken, olden, on last leg, over the hill |
| Antonyms: | young, youth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | long in the tooth |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old |
| Synonyms: | aging, getting on, getting up in years, gray-haired, senescent, white-haired |
| Main Entry: | maturing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ripening |
| Synonyms: | aging, blossoming, growing, preparing, advancing, consummating, developing, evolving, growing up, mellowing, perfecting, sprouting, sweetening |
| Antonyms: | dying, fading, declining |
| Main Entry: | develop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cultivate, prosper |
| Synonyms: | advance, age, establish, evolve, expand, flourish, foster, grow, mature, mellow, progress, promote, ripen, thrive, enroot, grow up, maturate |
| Antonyms: | halt, repress |
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mask; misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge*, garble, hide, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on an act*, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, whitewash*, cover up, doctor up, gloss over, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, wear cheaters |
| Antonyms: | expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become larger, evolve |
| Synonyms: | abound, advance, age, amplify, arise, augment, become, breed, build, burgeon, come, cultivate, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, fill out, flourish, gain, germinate, heighten, increase, issue, luxuriate, mature, mount, multiply, originate, produce, propagate, raise, ripen, rise, shoot*, spread, sprout, stem, stretch, swell, thicken, thrive, turn, vegetate, wax*, widen, branch out, burst forth, come to be, get bigger, get taller, maturate, pop up, pullulate, spring up |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, diminish, halt, lessen, reduce, stop, stunt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mature |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become adult, fully grown |
| Synonyms: | advance, age, arrive, bloom, blossom, culminate, develop, evolve, fill out, flower*, grow, mellow*, mushroom*, perfect, prime, progress, ripen, round, season, attain majority, become experienced, become wise, come of age, grow up, maturate, reach adulthood, reach majority, settle down, shoot up* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mellow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ripen, mature |
| Synonyms: | age, arrive, develop, grow, improve, mollify, perfect, ripe, season, soften, sweeten, grow up, maturate, milden, settle down |
| Main Entry: | metamorphose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | convert, transform |
| Synonyms: | age, alter, change, commute, develop, diverge, mature, mutate, remodel, ripen, translate, vary, be reborn, remake, reshape, transfigure, transmogrify, transmute, transubstantiate |
| Antonyms: | stagnate |
| Main Entry: | ripen |
| Part of Speech: | verb1 |
| Definition: | mature |
| Synonyms: | age, mellow, come of age, grow up |
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