| Main Entry: | flower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bloom, flourish |
Synonyms: |
batten, blossom, blow, burgeon, effloresce, mature, open, outbloom, prosper, thrive, unfold |
Antonyms: |
close, die, droop, fade, sag, shrink, shrivel |
| Main Entry: | flowering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blooming |
Synonyms: |
abloom, florescent, flourishing, in bloom, inflorescent |
| Main Entry: | boom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prosper |
Synonyms: |
appreciate, bloom, develop, enhance, expand, flourish, flower, gain, grow, increase, intensify, rise in value, spurt, strengthen, succeed, swell, thrive |
Antonyms: |
collapse, fail, falter, lose |
| 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: | fertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to bear, produce |
Synonyms: |
abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding |
Antonyms: |
barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | flourish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow, prosper |
Synonyms: |
amplify, arrive, augment, batten, be on top of heap, bear fruit, bloom, blossom, boom, burgeon, come along, develop, do well, expand, flower, get ahead, get on, go, go great guns, hit it big, increase, live high on hog, make out, multiply, score, succeed, thrive, wax |
Antonyms: |
cease, fail, hinder, languish, stunt |
| 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: | mature |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become adult, fully grown |
Synonyms: |
advance, age, arrive, attain majority, become experienced, become wise, bloom, blossom, come of age, culminate, develop, evolve, fill out, flower*, grow, grow up, maturate, mellow*, mushroom, perfect, prime, progress, reach adulthood, reach majority, ripen, round, season, settle down, shoot up |
| Main Entry: | prime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | best part of existence |
Synonyms: |
best, best days, bloom, choice, cream*, elite, fat*, flower*, flowering, height, heyday, maturity, peak, perfection, pink*, prize, spring, springtime, top, verdure, vitality, zenith |
Antonyms: |
downfall |