| 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: | 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: | 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: | matter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secretion of a sore |
Synonyms: |
discharge, infection, maturation, purulence, pus, suppuration, ulceration |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
Synonyms: |
ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, full bloom, fullness, majority, manhood, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, mentality, perfection, postpubescence, prime, prime of life, readiness, ripeness, sophistication, wisdom, womanhood |
Antonyms: |
childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | success |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favorable outcome |
Synonyms: |
Easy Street, accomplishment, achievement, advance, arrival, ascendancy, attainment, bed of roses, benefit, big hit, boom*, clover, consummation, do well, eminence, fame, flying colors, fortune, fruition, gain, good luck*, good times, grand slam, gravy train, happiness, happy days, hit, killing, lap of luxury, laugher, maturation, profit, progress, prosperity, realization, reward, savvy, sensation, snap, strike, successfulness, triumph, victory, walkaway, walkover, win, éclat |
Antonyms: |
failure, loss |
| Main Entry: | legal age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | age of maturity |
Synonyms: |
adultness, age of consent, drinking age, driving age, full age, full growth, legalis homo, majority, man's or woman's estate, maturation, mature age, matureness, voting age |
| Main Entry: | pus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liquid matter |
Synonyms: |
matter, maturation, purulence, purulency, pustule, sinus, suppuration |
| Notes: | pus is a Latin term for the fluid product of infection; there is no etymological connection between pus and pustule; pustule is from Latin pustula 'blister' |