| Main Entry: | spawn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce |
Synonyms: |
bring forth, create, father, generate, give rise to, hatch, issue, make, mother, originate, parent, procreate, reproduce, sire |
Antonyms: |
destroy |
| Main Entry: | spawning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reproduction |
Synonyms: |
Photostat, X-ray, Xerox, breeding, carbon copy, carbon, chip off old block, clone, copy, ditto*, dupe*, facsimile, fake*, flimsy, generation, imitation, increase, look-alike, mimeo, mimeograph, mirror image, multiplication, offprint, photocopy, photograph, pic, picture, portrayal, print, procreation, proliferation, propagation, recreation, reduplication, reenactment, renewal, replica, replication, reprinting, repro, revival, stat, transcription, twin |
| Main Entry: | create |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop in mind or physically |
Synonyms: |
actualize, author, beget, bring into being, bring into existence, bring to pass, build, cause to be, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, give birth to, give life to, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start |
Antonyms: |
destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | engender |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to happen; cause an action |
Synonyms: |
arouse, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, create, develop, excite, foment, generate, give birth to, give rise to, hatch, incite, induce, instigate, lead to, make, muster, occasion, precipitate, procreate, produce, propagate, provoke, quicken, rouse, spawn, stimulate, stir, work up |
Antonyms: |
destroy, finish, halt, kill, stop |
| Main Entry: | father |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sire |
Synonyms: |
beget, conceive, create, dream up, engender, establish, found, generate, invent, originate, procreate, produce, sow the seeds of, spawn, trigger |
Antonyms: |
mother |
| Main Entry: | fecund |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive |
Synonyms: |
breeding, fertile, fructiferous, fruitful, generating, pregnant, proliferant, prolific, propagating, reproducing, rich, spawning, teeming |
Antonyms: |
impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | fertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to bear, produce |
Synonyms: |
abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding |
Antonyms: |
barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | fruitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive |
Synonyms: |
abounding, abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, blossoming, breeding, childing, conducive, copious, effective, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, fructiferous, gainful, plenteous, plentiful, profitable, profuse, proliferant, prolific, propagating, reproducing, rewarding, rich, spawning, successful, useful, well-spent, worthwhile |
Antonyms: |
barren, impotent, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | generate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce, create |
Synonyms: |
accomplish, achieve, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring to pass, cause, develop, effect, engender, form, found, get up, give birth to, give rise to, hatch, inaugurate, induce, initiate, institute, introduce, make, multiply, muster, occasion, originate, parent, perform, procreate, propagate, provoke, reproduce, set up, spawn, whip up, work up |
Antonyms: |
break, destroy |
| Main Entry: | generation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, production |
Synonyms: |
bearing, begetting, breeding, bringing forth, engenderment, formation, fructifying, genesis, multiplying, origination, procreation, propagation, reproduction, spawning |
Antonyms: |
destruction |