nurtures - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | nurture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, nourishment |
| Synonyms: | breeding, care, diet, discipline, education, feed, food, instruction, nutriment, provender, provisions, subsistence, sustenance, training, upbringing, viands, victuals, edibles, rearing |
| Notes: | cherish means to be fond of, be attached to, while nurture means to bring up, help develop, help grow, or provide with nourishment |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, ignorance, neglect, starvation |
| Main Entry: | nurture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feed, care for |
| Synonyms: | back, bolster, bring up, cherish, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, foster, instruct, nourish, nurse, provide, raise, rear, school, support, sustain, tend, train, uphold, nursle |
| Antonyms: | deprive, ignore, neglect, starve |
| Main Entry: | bread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daily food |
| Synonyms: | comestibles, diet, fare, feed, grub*, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, provender, provisions, staff of life*, subsistence, sustenance, viands, victuals, aliment, bed and board, necessities, shingle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | breeding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivation of person |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, civility, conduct, courtesy, culture, development, gentility, grace, lineage, manners, nurture, polish, refinement, training, upbringing, raising, rearing, schooling, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | bring up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise youngster |
| Synonyms: | breed, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, feed, form, foster, nourish, nurture, rear, school, support, teach, train, provide for |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tend to |
| Synonyms: | attend, consider, foster, mind, minister, mother, nurse, nurture, protect, ride herd on*, sit, tend, treasure, wait on, watch, baby sit, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, mind the store, pay attention to, provide for, take pains, watch over |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cherish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care about deeply |
| Synonyms: | admire, adore, appreciate, clasp, coddle, comfort, cosset, cultivate, defend, dote on, embrace, encourage, enshrine, entertain, fancy, fondle, foster, guard, harbor, honor, hug, idolize, like, love, nourish, nurse, nurture, pet, preserve, prize, revere, reverence, safeguard, shelter, shield, support, sustain, treasure, value, venerate, worship, apprize, care for, cleave to, cling to, hold dear, hold in high esteem |
| Antonyms: | abandon, denounce, forsake, renounce, not care |
| Main Entry: | cultivate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enrich situation; give special attention |
| Synonyms: | advance, ameliorate, better, bolster, bring on, brownnose*, butter up*, cherish, civilize, court, develop, discipline, elevate, encourage, enrich, foster, further, improve, nourish, nurse, nurture, polish, promote, refine, train, get in with, get next to, get on good side of, play up to, run after, seek friendship, shine up to, suck up to, take pains with |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | edification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement, education |
| Synonyms: | betterment, elevation, elucidation, enhancement, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, teaching, tuition, uplifting, irradiation, schooling |
| Antonyms: | destruction, worsening |
| Main Entry: | educate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | teach information, experience |
| Synonyms: | brainwash*, brief, civilize, coach, cultivate, develop, discipline, drill, drum into, edify, enlighten, exercise, explain, foster, improve, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, mature, nurture, rear, school, train, tutor, let in on, put hip, put through the grind, show the ropes |
| Antonyms: | learn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instruction, development of knowledge |
| Synonyms: | background, brainwashing*, breeding, civilization, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, indoctrination, information, learning, literacy, nurture, preparation, reading, refinement, scholarship, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring, apprenticeship, book learning, catechism, coaching, drilling, inculcation, learnedness, pedagogy, propagandism, proselytism, rearing, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give nourishment; augment |
| Synonyms: | banquet, bolster, cater, cram, deliver, dine, dish out*, dispense, encourage, fatten, feast, fill, find, foster, fuel, furnish, give, gorge, hand, hand over, maintain, minister, nourish, nurse, nurture, provide, provision, regale, satisfy, stock, strengthen, stuff, supply, support, sustain, wine and dine*, victual |
| Antonyms: | starve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feed on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume |
| Synonyms: | devour, eat, fare, feast, graze, ingest, meal, munch, nibble, nurture, partake, pasture*, peck*, pig out*, prey on, scarf*, snack, sponge, subsist, take, exist on, have a bite, live on, take nourishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | instigate, provoke |
| Synonyms: | abet, agitate, arouse, brew, cultivate, encourage, excite, foster, goad, incite, nurse, nurture, promote, quicken, raise, set, spur, start, stimulate, whip up*, fan the flames, set on, sow the seeds, stir up |
| Antonyms: | cease, dampen, discourage, dissuade, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foster |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | promote, support |
| Synonyms: | advance, back, champion, cherish, cultivate, encourage, feed, foment, forward, further, harbor, nurse, nurture, serve, stimulate, uphold |
| Antonyms: | condemn, discourage |
| Main Entry: | groom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make ready, prepare physically |
| Synonyms: | brush, clean, coach, comb, curry, dress, drill, educate, nurture, preen, prim, prime, primp, ready, refine, refresh, sleek, spruce up*, tend, tidy, train, turn out, lick into shape, make attractive, make presentable, prep, pretty up, put through grind, put through mill, rub down, shape up, slick up*, smarten up, spiff up |
| Antonyms: | forget, ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grub |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | chow*, comestibles, eats*, feed, nosh*, nurture, provisions, sustenance, viands, victuals, vittles*, edibles, rations |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harbor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide, protect |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, board, bunk, conceal, defend, domicile, entertain, guard, hold back, house, lodge, nurse, nurture, put up, quarter, relieve, safeguard, screen, secrete, secure, shelter, shield, suppress, withhold, provide refuge |
| Antonyms: | eject, uncover, let out |
| Main Entry: | harbor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hold in imagination |
| Synonyms: | believe, cherish, consider, entertain, foster, hold, imagine, maintain, nurse, nurture, regard, retain, brood over, cling to |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
| Main Entry: | imagine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dream up, conceive |
| Synonyms: | brainstorm, build castles in air, conceptualize, conjure up, cook up*, create, depict, devise, envisage, envision, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, figure, form, frame, harbor, image, invent, make up, nurture, perceive, picture, plan, project, realize, scheme, see in one's mind, spark, think of, think up, vision, visualize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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