| Main Entry: | evolvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development |
Synonyms: |
evolution, growth, maturation, progress, progression, transformation, unfolding |
| 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: | 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 |
| 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: | progress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advancement, gain |
Synonyms: |
advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, step forward, stride, tour, unfolding, voyage, way |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression |
| Main Entry: | progression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress |
Synonyms: |
advance, advancement, amelioration, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, development, evolution, evolvement, forward march, furtherance, getting ahead, giant strides, going forward, growth, headway, improvement, promotion, step forward |
| Main Entry: | melioration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress |
Synonyms: |
advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break*, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, step forward, stride, tour, unfolding, voyage, way |
| Main Entry: | unfolding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development |
Synonyms: |
adding to, addition, adulthood, advance, advancement, advancing, augmentation, augmenting, boost, buildup, developing, elaborating, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, evolving, expansion, flowering, growth, hike, improvement, increase, increasing, making progress, maturation, maturing, maturity, ongoing, perfecting, progress, progression, reinforcement, reinforcing, ripening, spread*, spreading, unraveling, upgrowth, upping |
| Main Entry: | progress |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
| Concept: | [Motion forward; progressive motion] Progression. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
progress, progression, progressiveness; advancing; advance, advancement; ongoing; flood, tide, headway; march; rise; improvement.
-verbs
advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground; gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep one's course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides (velocity) [more]; go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway.
-adjectives
advancing; progressive, profluent; advanced.
-adverbs
forward, onward; forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to; in progress; in mid-progress; in transitu.
-phrases
vestigia nulla retrorsum; "westward the course of empire takes its way" [Berkeley].
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Antonyms: |
regression |
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