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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Main Entry: grub
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: food
Synonyms: chow*, comestibles, eats*, feed, nosh*, nurture, provisions, sustenance, viands, victuals, vittles*, edibles, rations
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
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