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mushroom - 15 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | mushroom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sprout; grow quickly |
| Synonyms: | augment, blow up, boom, burgeon, burst, detonate, expand, explode, flourish, go off, grow, increase, luxuriate, proliferate, spread, grow rapidly, shoot up, spring up |
| Notes: | neither mushroom (possibly from 'moss'?) nor toadstool (a fanciful name) is a scientific designation |
| Antonyms: | shrink, shrivel |
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| Main Entry: | beige |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | light brown color |
| Synonyms: | buff, cream, ecru, fawn, mushroom, neutral, oatmeal, tan, biscuit, café au lait, camel, khaki, off-white, sand, taupe |
| Main Entry: | detonate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set off bomb |
| Synonyms: | bang, blast, blow up, burst, discharge, explode, fulminate, mushroom*, kablooey, let go, push the button, shoot off, touch off, va-voom |
| Antonyms: | dismantle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mature |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become adult, fully grown |
| Synonyms: | advance, age, arrive, bloom, blossom, culminate, develop, evolve, fill out, flower*, grow, mellow*, mushroom*, perfect, prime, progress, ripen, round, season, attain majority, become experienced, become wise, come of age, grow up, maturate, reach adulthood, reach majority, settle down, shoot up* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | proliferate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase quickly |
| Synonyms: | breed, burgeon, engender, escalate, expand, generate, multiply, mushroom*, procreate, propagate, reproduce, run riot*, grow rapidly, snowball |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, fall off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thrive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do well |
| Synonyms: | advance, arrive, batten, bloom, blossom, boom, burgeon, develop, flourish, get ahead*, get on*, grow, increase, mushroom*, progress, prosper, radiate, rise, score*, shine, succeed, wax, bear fruit, get fat, get places, get there, grow rich, make a go, shoot up, turn out well |
| Antonyms: | decline, fail, languish, lose |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend, augment |
| Synonyms: | aggrandize, amplify, beef up*, bloat, blow up*, bolster, broaden, burgeon, detail, develop, diffuse, dilate, distend, elaborate, embellish, enlarge, explicate, fatten, fill out, grow, heighten, hike, increase, inflate, lengthen, magnify, mount, multiply, mushroom, open, pad, prolong, protract, pyramid*, spread, stretch, swell, thicken, unfold, unfurl, unravel, unroll, upsurge, wax*, widen, bulk up, fan out*, open out, outspread, piggyback, puff up, slap on, soup up, spread out, stretch out, tack on |
| Antonyms: | abbreviate, contract, lessen, lower, shorten, shrink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | explode |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up |
| Synonyms: | backfire, blast, blaze, break out, burst, collapse, convulse, detonate, discharge, erupt, fracture, jet, mushroom*, rupture, shatter, shiver, split, thunder, blow to kingdom come, flame up, flare up, kablooey, let go, set off |
| Antonyms: | implode |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | go off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explode |
| Synonyms: | befall, blow, blow up, burst, detonate, discharge, fire, happen, mushroom, occur, pass, take place |
| Main Entry: | spread |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | open or fan out |
| Synonyms: | arrange, array, bloat, branch off, broaden, cast, circulate, coat, cover, daub, develop, diffuse, dilate, disperse, diverge, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, flatten, flow, gloss, increase, lay, lengthen, level, lie, multiply, mushroom, open, overlay, paint, pervade, prepare, proliferate, radiate, reach, set, settle, smear, sprawl, spray, stretch, strew, suffuse, swell, unfold, unfurl, unroll, unwind, widen, be displayed, be distributed, even out, outstretch, roll out, uncoil, untwist |
| Antonyms: | close, collect, compress, gather |
| Main Entry: | blow up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explode |
| Synonyms: | blast, bomb, burst, detonate, dynamite, erupt, go off, mushroom, rupture, shatter |
| Antonyms: | deflate |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, augment |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggravate, amplify, assemble, boost, build up, collect, congregate, congress, dignify, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, exalt, form, gather, get, heighten, hike, honor, inflate, intensify, jump, levy, look up, magnify, mass, mobilize, mushroom*, muster, obtain, perk up, pick up, promote, put up, pyramid, rally, recruit, reinforce, rendezvous, strengthen, up, fetch up, forgather, goose up, goose*, hike up, jack up, jump up, run up*, send through the roof, shoot up, snowball |
| Antonyms: | decrease, depress, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spring |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | originate, emerge |
| Synonyms: | appear, arise, arrive, begin, birth, burgeon, come, come out, commence, derive, descend, develop, emanate, flow, grow, hatch, head, issue, loom, mushroom, proceed, rise, start, stem, be derived, be descended, come into being, come into existence, shoot up, upspring |
| Main Entry: | acid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD |
| Synonyms: | California sunshine, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, Owsley's acid, black tabs, blotter, blue Owsley, blue acid, blue dot, candy*, cubes, dot*, electric Kool Aid, green dragon, hallucinogen, instant Zen, magic mushrooms, mescalin, microdots, mushrooms, orange sunshine, peyote, purple haze, strawberry fields, sugar cubes, yellow sunshine |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | average |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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low, low, barbaresque, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, base, base, below par, boorish, born within sound of Bow, churlish, clownish, cockney, common, demotic, dunghull, earth, homespun, ignoble, loutish, mean, menial, mushroom, no great shakes, obscure, of low extraction, of low origin, of low parentage, of mean extraction, of mean origin, of mean parentage, philodemic, plebeian, proletarian, proletariat, raffish, risen from the ranks, rude, rustic, scrubby, snobbish, sorry, subaltern, uncivilized, underling, unknown to fame, unlicked, untitled, vile, vulgar
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