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| 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: | develop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expand, work out |
| Synonyms: | actualize, advance, amplify, augment, beautify, broaden, build up, cultivate, deepen, dilate, elaborate, enlarge, enrich, evolve, exploit, extend, finish, heighten, improve, intensify, lengthen, magnify, materialize, perfect, polish, promote, realize, refine, spread, strengthen, stretch, unfold, widen |
| Antonyms: | circumscribe, compress, confine, decrease, lessen, narrow |
| Main Entry: | develop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | begin; occur |
| Synonyms: | acquire, arise, befall, betide, break, break out, breed, chance, come about, come off, commence, contract, ensue, establish, follow, form, generate, go, happen, invest, originate, pick up, result, start, transpire |
| Antonyms: | cease, discontinue, end, halt, stop |
| Main Entry: | develop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | unfold; be made known |
| Synonyms: | account for, acquire, actualize, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, exhibit, explain, explicate, foretell, form, materialize, produce, reach, realize, recount, state, uncover, unfurl, unravel, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist |
| 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: | embryonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rudimentary |
| Synonyms: | beginning, early, elementary, immature, incipient, undeveloped, developing, evolving, germinal |
| Main Entry: | emergent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resulting |
| Synonyms: | budding, coming, outgoing, rising, appearing, developing, efflorescent, emanant, emanating, issuing forth |
| Antonyms: | dependent, declining |
| Main Entry: | infant/infantile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very young |
| Synonyms: | baby, babyish, callow, childish, childlike, early, emergent, green*, growing, immature, initial, juvenile, kid, naive, newborn, puerile, tender, unripe, weak, youthful, dawning, developing, infantine, nascent, unfledged |
| Antonyms: | adult, grown-up, mature |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | juvenile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childish |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, babyish, blooming, boyish, budding, callow, childlike, formative, fresh, girlish, green, growing, immature, inexperienced, infant, infantile, jejune, junior, kid stuff*, naive, puerile, teenage, tender, undeveloped, unripe, unsophisticated, vernal, young, youthful, beardless, developing, milk-fed, pubescent, unfledged, unweaned, younger |
| Antonyms: | adult, grown-up, mature |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | living |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existing, active |
| Synonyms: | alert, alive, animated, around, awake, breathing, brisk, contemporary, continuing, current, dynamic, extant, live, lively, ongoing, operative, strong, vigorous, vital, warm, developing, existent, in use, persisting, subsisting, ticking |
| Antonyms: | dead, inactive |
| Main Entry: | ongoing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | continuous |
| Synonyms: | continuing, current, extant, growing, heading, marching, open-ended, successful, unfinished, advancing, developing, evolving, in process, in progress, progressing, unfolding |
| Antonyms: | infrequent, intermittent, stopping, incontinuous |
| Main Entry: | progressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liberal; growing |
| Synonyms: | advanced, avant-garde*, broad, broad-minded, continuing, continuous, dynamic, enlightened, enterprising, go-ahead*, gradual, graduated, increasing, left*, lenient, modern, ongoing, onward, open-minded, radical, revolutionary, tolerant, up-and-coming*, up-to-date, wide, accelerating, advancing, bleeding-heart, developing, escalating, forward-looking, intensifying, left of center, reformist |
| Antonyms: | conservative, moderate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thriving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | successful |
| Synonyms: | blooming, cooking*, flourishing, growing, healthy, prolific, prosperous, rich, robust, rolling*, sitting pretty*, wealthy, advancing, arrived, booming, burgeoning, developing, doing well, going strong, have it made, have the wherewithal, home free, on top of heap, progressing, prospering, roaring |
| Antonyms: | failing, languishing, losing, declining |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | young |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, blooming, blossoming, boyish, budding, callow, childish, childlike, crude, early, fledgling, fresh, girlish, green*, growing, ignorant, inexperienced, infant, inferior, junior, juvenile, little, modern, new, newborn, puerile, punk, raw, recent, tender, tenderfoot*, undeveloped, undisciplined, unfinished, unlearned, unripe, unseasoned, untried, unversed, vernal, youthful, boylike, burgeoning, developing, girllike, half-grown, newish, not aged, pubescent, unfledged, unpracticed |
| Notes: | to be young is to be immature or not old; to be youthful is having the attractive qualities of a young person |
| Antonyms: | mature, old, older |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blossoming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blooming |
| Synonyms: | bloom, budding, flourishing, flowering, thriving, developing |
| Antonyms: | withering |
| Main Entry: | changing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changeful |
| Synonyms: | changeable, dynamic, growing, inconstant, irresolute, mobile, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, wavering, altering, alternating, developing, modifying |
| Antonyms: | fixed, stable, unchanging |
| Main Entry: | growing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | increasing |
| Synonyms: | animate, budding, crescent, enlarging, flourishing, living, maturing, spreading, swelling, thriving, viable, amplifying, augmenting, burgeoning, crescive, developing, dilating, expanding, fructifying, germinating, mushrooming, pullulating, sprouting, stretching, waxing |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | improving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reconstructing |
| Synonyms: | convalescent, fixing, remodeling, bettering, correcting, developing, elaborating, repairing |
| 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: | 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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