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boom - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | boom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loud sound; crash |
| Synonyms: | bang, barrage, blare, blast, burst, cannonade, clap, crack, explosion, reverberation, roar, rumble, slam, smash, thunder, wham, drumfire |
| Main Entry: | boom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crash; make loud sound |
| Synonyms: | bang, blast, burst, clap, crack, drum, explode, resound, reverberate, roar, roll, rumble, slam, smash, sound, thunder, wham |
| Main Entry: | boom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prosperity |
| Synonyms: | advance, boost, development, expansion, gain, growth, improvement, increase, inflation, jump, push, rush, spurt, upsurge, upswing, upturn, prosperousness |
| Antonyms: | collapse, failure, loss |
| Main Entry: | boom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prosper |
| Synonyms: | appreciate, bloom, develop, enhance, expand, flourish, flower, gain, grow, increase, intensify, spurt, strengthen, succeed, swell, thrive, rise in value |
| Antonyms: | collapse, fail, falter, lose |
| Main Entry: | blare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make loud noise |
| Synonyms: | bark, bellow, blast, boom, bray, clamor, clang, honk, hoot, peal, resound, roar, scream, shout, shriek, toot, trumpet, sound out |
| Antonyms: | toot |
| Main Entry: | brace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support |
| Synonyms: | arm, band, bar, bearing, block, bolster, boom, bracket, buttress, clamp, girder, grip, guy, lever, mainstay, peg, prop, reinforcement, rib, shore, skid, splice, splint, staff, stanchion, stay, strut, truss, underpinning, vice, bracer, cantilever, rafter, stave, stirrup, strengthener, sustainer |
| Main Entry: | cherry-picker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truck with raisable boom |
| Synonyms: | boom, cable truck, telephone truck, utility truck |
| Main Entry: | chime |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ring, peal |
| Synonyms: | bell, boom, clang, jingle, knell, sound, strike, tinkle, toll, bong, dong, tintinnabulate |
| Main Entry: | clap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loud hitting noise |
| Synonyms: | applause, bang, blast, boom, burst, crack, crash, pat, slam, slap, smash, strike, thrust, thunder, thwack, wallop, whack, wham, handclap, thunderclap |
| Main Entry: | detonation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explosion |
| Synonyms: | bang, blast, blowout, boom, discharge, blow-up, ignition |
| Main Entry: | drum |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat, tap a beat |
| Synonyms: | boom*, pulsate, rap, reverberate, roar, strum, tattoo, throb, thunder*, thrum |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enhance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve, embellish |
| Synonyms: | add to, adorn, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, augment, beautify, boom, boost, build up, complement, elevate, embroider, enlarge, exaggerate, exalt, heighten, increase, intensify, lift, magnify, pad*, pyramid*, raise, reinforce, strengthen, swell, upgrade, flesh out |
| Antonyms: | decrease, fix, lower, minimize, reduce, worsen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inflation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase, swelling |
| Synonyms: | boom, boost, buildup, enhancement, enlargement, escalation, expansion, extension, hike, prosperity, rise, spread, aggrandizement, blowing up, distension, intensification, puffiness, tumefaction |
| Antonyms: | compression, decrease, shrinkage, deflation |
| Main Entry: | mushroom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sprout; grow quickly |
| Synonyms: | augment, blow up, boom, burgeon, burst, detonate, expand, explode, flourish, go off, grow, increase, luxuriate, proliferate, spread, grow rapidly, shoot up, spring up |
| Notes: | neither mushroom (possibly from 'moss'?) nor toadstool (a fanciful name) is a scientific designation |
| Antonyms: | shrink, shrivel |
| Main Entry: | noise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sound that is loud or not harmonious |
| Synonyms: | babble, babel, bang, bedlam, bellow, blare, blast, boom, buzz, cacophony, clamor, clang, clatter, commotion, crash, cry, detonation, din, discord, disquiet, disquietude, eruption, explosion, fanfare, fireworks, fracas*, fuss*, hoo-ha*, hubbub*, hullabaloo*, jangle, outcry, pandemonium, peal, racket, ring, roar, row, shot, shouting, squawk, talk, thud, tumult, turbulence, uproar, yelling, yelp, bewailing, boisterousness, caterwauling, drumming, lamentation, sonance, stridency, uproariousness |
| Antonyms: | silence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prosperity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affluence, good fortune |
| Synonyms: | abundance, accomplishment, advantage, arrival, bed of roses*, benefit, boom, do, ease*, easy street*, exorbitance, expansion, flying colors*, fortune, good, gravy train*, growth, increase, inflation, interest, luxury, opulence, plenty, riches, success, thriving, velvet, victory, wealth, welfare, well-being, clover, good times, high on the hog, life of luxury, plenteousness, prosperousness, successfulness, the good life |
| Antonyms: | failure, loss, poorness, poverty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | resonate |
| Synonyms: | boom, bounce back, echo, reproduce, reverberate, ring, sound, vibrate |
| Main Entry: | rumble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | growl, thunder |
| Synonyms: | boom, grumble, resound, roar, roll |
| Main Entry: | success |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favorable outcome |
| Synonyms: | éclat, Easy Street*, accomplishment, achievement, advance, arrival, ascendancy, attainment, bed of roses*, benefit, boom*, consummation, eminence, fame, flying colors*, fortune, fruition, gain, good luck*, gravy train*, happiness, hit, killing, profit, progress, prosperity, realization, reward, savvy, sensation, snap, strike, triumph, victory, walkaway*, win, big hit, clover, do well, good times, grand slam, happy days, lap of luxury, laugher, maturation, successfulness, walkover |
| Antonyms: | failure, loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thrive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do well |
| Synonyms: | advance, arrive, batten, bloom, blossom, boom, burgeon, develop, flourish, get ahead*, get on*, grow, increase, mushroom*, progress, prosper, radiate, rise, score*, shine, succeed, wax, bear fruit, get fat, get places, get there, grow rich, make a go, shoot up, turn out well |
| Antonyms: | decline, fail, languish, lose |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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