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| Main Entry: | growth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, augmentation, boost, buildup, crop, cultivation, enlargement, evolution, expansion, extension, flowering, gain, hike, improvement, increase, maturing, multiplication, produce, production, proliferation, prosperity, rise, success, surge, swell, up, vegetation, aggrandizement, beefing up, evolvement, fleshing out, germination, heightening, maturation, sprouting, stretching, thickening, unfolding, upping, waxing, widening |
| Antonyms: | abatement, decrease, diminishment, failure, lessening, reduction, stagnation, underdevelopment |
| Main Entry: | growth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tumor |
| Synonyms: | cancer, excrescence, lump, mole, outgrowth, parasite, polyp, swelling, cancroid, fibrous tissue, fibrousness, fungus, thickening, wen |
| Main Entry: | accumulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gathering or amassing |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, agglomeration, aggregation, augmentation, chunk, collection, conglomeration, enlargement, growth, heap, hunk, increase, inflation, mass, multiplication, pile, quantity, stack, stock, store, up, aggrandizement, amassment, build-up, collecting, gob, hoarding, intensification, trove, upping |
| Antonyms: | dispersion, dissipation, scattering, dispersal |
| Main Entry: | augmentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | making greater; improving |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, amplification, boost, buildup, development, enhancement, enlargement, enrichment, expansion, extension, growth, hike, increase, increment, inflation, multiplication, raise, reinforcement, rise, swelling, up, beefing up, fleshing out, heightening, intensification, magnification, strengthening, upping |
| Antonyms: | decrease, degradation |
| Main Entry: | buildup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development; accumulation |
| Synonyms: | accretion, advertising, enlargement, escalation, expansion, gain, growth, heap, hype, increase, load, mass, plug, promotion, publicity, puff*, stack, stockpile, store |
| Antonyms: | decrease, destruction, reduction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
| Synonyms: | appendage, blob, bump, bunch, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, growth, hump, jut, lump, outgrowth, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, salient, superfluity, swelling, tumor, wart, bagginess, bunching, convexity, gibbosity, intumescence, nodulation, nodule, outthrust, sagging, salience, tuberosity, tumefaction |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | conversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, adaptation |
| Synonyms: | about-face*, alteration, change of heart, changeover, exchange, flip-flop*, flux, growth, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, novelty, passage, passing, permutation, progress, qualification, reclamation, reconstruction, reformation, reorganization, resolution, reversal, switch, transformation, translation, transmutation, born again, metanoia, metasis, proselytization, regeneration, remodelling, resolving, see the light, transfiguration, transmogrification, turning, turning around |
| Antonyms: | idleness, sameness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enlargement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase, expansion |
| Synonyms: | amplification, augmentation, blow up, extension, growth, spread, aggrandizement, elongation |
| Antonyms: | abridgment, compression, decrease, lessening, lowering, reduction, shrinkage |
| Main Entry: | epidemic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | widespread disease |
| Synonyms: | contagion, endemic, growth, outbreak, pest, pestilence, plague, rash, scourge, spread, upsurge, wave, what's going around |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
| Main Entry: | evolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, progress |
| Synonyms: | change, enlargement, expansion, flowering, growth, increase, progression, transformation, evolvement, maturation, natural process, unfolding, working out |
| Antonyms: | decrease, halt, stoppage, blockage |
| Main Entry: | foliage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaves |
| Synonyms: | growth, umbrage, vegetation, verdure, frondescence, greenness, herbage, leafage |
| Main Entry: | forest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area with a large number of trees |
| Synonyms: | backwoods, brake, chase, clump, coppice, copse, cover, covert, grove, growth, jungle, park, shelter, stand, thicket, timber, wood, woodland, woods, timberland, weald, wildwood, woodlot |
| Main Entry: | gain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acquisition, winnings |
| Synonyms: | accretion, accrual, accumulation, achievement, addition, advance, advancement, advantage, attainment, benefit, boost, buildup, cut, dividend, earnings, emolument, gravy*, growth, headway*, hike*, improvement, income, increase, increment, lucre, payoff, proceeds, produce, profit, progress, receipts, return, rise, share, take, up*, velvet*, yield, upping |
| Antonyms: | expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, loss, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gestation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | process of early development |
| Synonyms: | evolution, growth, pregnancy, reproduction, fecundation, gravidity, incubation, maturation, ripening |
| Main Entry: | improvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bettering; something bettered |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, reformation, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing, amelioration, meliorism, preferment, rectification, regeneration |
| Antonyms: | damage, decline, decrease, harm, hurt, injury, diminishing, weakening, worsening |
| Main Entry: | lump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clump, mass |
| Synonyms: | agglomeration, ball, bit, block, bulge, bulk, bump, bunch, cake, chip, chunk, cluster, crumb, dab, group, growth, handful, hunk, knot, lot, morsel, mountain, much, nugget, part, peck, piece, pile, portion, protrusion, protuberance, scrap, section, solid, spot, swelling, tumor, wad, wedge, gob, knurl, tumescence |
| Main Entry: | process |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | method; series of actions to achieve result |
| Synonyms: | action, advance, case, course, development, evolution, fashion, formation, growth, manner, means, measure, mechanism, mode, modus operandi, movement, operation, outgrowth, performance, practice, procedure, proceeding, progress, progression, red tape*, routine, rule, stage, step, suit, system, technique, transaction, trial, way, wise, working, channels, course of action, unfolding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | progress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advancement, gain |
| Synonyms: | advance, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, stride, tour, voyage, way, amelioration, anabasis, evolvement, step forward, unfolding |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression |
| Main Entry: | progression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, development, evolution, furtherance, growth, headway, improvement, promotion, amelioration, evolvement, forward march, getting ahead, giant strides, going forward, step forward |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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