| Main Entry: | evolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, progress |
Synonyms: |
change, enlargement, evolvement, expansion, flowering, growth, increase, maturation, natural process, progression, transformation, unfolding, working out |
Antonyms: |
blockage, decrease, halt, stoppage |
| Concept: | [Motion in the reverse circle] Evolution. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
evolution, unfolding, development; evolvement; unfoldment; eversion (inversion).
-verbs
evolve; unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine, unravel; disentangle; develop.
-adjectives
evolving; evolved.
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| Main Entry: | development |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
Synonyms: |
adding to, addition, adulthood, advance, advancement, advancing, augmentation, augmenting, boost, buildup, chrysalis, developing, elaborating, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, evolving, expansion, flowering, hike, improvement, increase, increasing, making progress, maturation, maturing, maturity, ongoing, ontogenesis, ontogeny, perfecting, progress, progression, reinforcement, reinforcing, ripening, spread, spreading, unfolding, unraveling, upgrowth, upping |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | expansion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
Synonyms: |
amplification, augmentation, breadth, development, diffusion, dilation, distance, distension, enlargement, evolution, expanse, extension, increase, inflation, magnification, maturation, multiplication, opening out, space, spread, stretch, swelling, unfolding, unfurling |
Antonyms: |
lessening, shrinkage, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | formation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | composition, establishment |
Synonyms: |
accumulation, architecture, arrangement, compilation, configuration, constitution, construction, creation, crystallization, deposit, design, development, dispersal, disposition, embodiment, evolution, fabrication, figure, forming, generation, genesis, grouping, induction, makeup, manufacture, order, organization, pattern, production, rank, structure, synthesis |
| Main Entry: | gestation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | process of early development |
Synonyms: |
evolution, fecundation, gravidity, growth, incubation, maturation, pregnancy, reproduction, ripening |
| Main Entry: | growth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, progress |
Synonyms: |
advance, advancement, aggrandizement, augmentation, beefing up, boost, buildup, crop, cultivation, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, expansion, extension, fleshing out, flowering, gain, germination, heightening, hike, improvement, increase, maturation, maturing, multiplication, produce, production, proliferation, prosperity, rise, sprouting, stretching, success, surge, swell, thickening, unfolding, up, upping, vegetation, waxing, widening |
Antonyms: |
abatement, decrease, diminishment, failure, lessening, reduction, stagnation, underdevelopment |
| Main Entry: | maneuver |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | military practice, operation |
Synonyms: |
battle, deployment, drill, evolution, exercise, measure, movement, parade, plan, procedure, proceeding, stratagem, tactics, war games |
| Main Entry: | metamorphosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversion, transformation |
Synonyms: |
alteration, change, changeover, evolution, mutation, rebirth, transfiguration, transfigurement, translation, transmogrification, transmutation, transubstantiation |
Antonyms: |
stagnation |
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion, activity |
Synonyms: |
act, action, advance, agitation, alteration, change, changing, deed, development, displacement, dynamism, evolution, evolving, exercise, flight, flow, flux, gesture, journey, journeying, locomotion, maneuver, migration, mobility, motility, movableness, move, moving, operation, operativeness, passage, progress, progression, regression, roaming, shift, shifting, steps, stir, stirring, transferal, transit, translating, transplanting, undertaking, velocity, voyaging, wandering |
Antonyms: |
cessation, halt, inaction, inactivity, pause, stoppage |