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swelling - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | swelling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical growth; lump |
| Synonyms: | abscess, blister, boil, bruise, bulge, bump, carbuncle, contusion, dilation, distention, enlargement, hump, increase, inflammation, injury, knob, node, pimple, pock, protuberance, puff, ridge, sore, tumor, wale, wart, welt, bunion, corn, knurl, nodule, puffiness, pustule, tumescence, weal |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | swell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become larger |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, add to, aggravate, amplify, augment, balloon, belly, billow, blister, bloat, bulge, dilate, distend, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, grow, heighten, increase, intensity, mount, plump, pouch, pout, protrude, puff, rise, surge, be inflated, become bloated, become distended, become swollen, grow larger, puff up, round out, tumefy, uprise, well up |
| Antonyms: | compress, concentrate, contract, shrink |
| Main Entry: | augmentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | making greater; improving |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, amplification, boost, buildup, development, enhancement, enlargement, enrichment, expansion, extension, growth, hike, increase, increment, inflation, multiplication, raise, reinforcement, rise, swelling, up, beefing up, fleshing out, heightening, intensification, magnification, strengthening, upping |
| Antonyms: | decrease, degradation |
| Main Entry: | billowy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surging |
| Synonyms: | distended, puffy, rising, rolling, swelling, swollen, undulating, wavy, bouncing, bouncy, bulgy, ebbing and flowing, heaving, rippled, rippling, rising and falling, swirling, waving |
| Main Entry: | bravado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boastfulness |
| Synonyms: | blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, bullying, guts*, hot air*, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, swelling, talk, braggadocio, bragging, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, tall talk |
| Antonyms: | cowardice, fear, modesty, restraint, fearfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bruise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black and blue mark under skin |
| Synonyms: | black eye, black mark, blemish, contusion, discoloration, injury, mark, mouse*, swelling, wale, wound, boo-boo |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bulb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | globular object |
| Synonyms: | ball, bunch, globe, head, knob, nub, protuberance, swelling, tuber, tumor, corm, corn, nodule |
| Notes: | tubers are different from bulbs and corms in that they have no basal plate or enveloping leaves |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
| Synonyms: | appendage, blob, bump, bunch, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, growth, hump, jut, lump, outgrowth, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, salient, superfluity, swelling, tumor, wart, bagginess, bunching, convexity, gibbosity, intumescence, nodulation, nodule, outthrust, sagging, salience, tuberosity, tumefaction |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | contusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bruise, injury |
| Synonyms: | bang, bump, cut, discoloration, knock, mouse, swelling, wale, wound |
| Main Entry: | expansion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
| Synonyms: | amplification, augmentation, breadth, development, diffusion, dilation, distance, enlargement, evolution, expanse, extension, increase, inflation, multiplication, space, spread, stretch, swelling, distension, magnification, maturation, opening out, unfolding, unfurling |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinkage, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | fullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abundance, breadth |
| Synonyms: | completeness, completion, congestion, copiousness, dilation, enlargement, entirety, fill, glut, plenty, profusion, roundness, saturation, scope, sufficiency, surfeit, swelling, totality, vastness, wealth, wholeness, adequateness, ampleness, amplitude, broadness, comprehensiveness, curvaceousness, distension, extensiveness, plenitude, plenum, repletion, satiation, satiety, tumescence, voluptuousness, wideness |
| Antonyms: | emptiness, need, void, want, incompleteness |
| Main Entry: | increase |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition, growth |
| Synonyms: | access, accession, accretion, accrual, accumulation, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, development, elaboration, enlargement, escalation, exaggeration, expansion, extension, gain, hike, incorporation, increment, inflation, merger, multiplication, raise, rise, spread, surge, swell, swelling, upgrade, upsurge, upturn, aggrandizement, burgeoning, cumulation, intensification, maximization, optimization, step-up, waxing |
| Antonyms: | decrease, depletion, diminishment, loss, subtraction |
| Main Entry: | injury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt, harm |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, abuse, affliction, affront, agony, bad, bite, blemish, bruise, burn, chop, cramp, cut, damage, detriment, discomfiture, disservice, distress, evil, fracture, gash, grievance, hemorrhage, ill, indignity, injustice, insult, laceration, lesion, libel, loss, mischief, misery, nick, ouch*, outrage, pang, ruin, scar, scratch, shock, slander, sore, sprain, stab, sting, suffering, swelling, trauma, twinge, wound, wrong, boo-boo, deformation, impairment, mutilation |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, benefit, blessing, favor, good, health, help, right |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knob |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lump, handle |
| Synonyms: | bulge, bulk, bump, bunch, hump, knot, latch, lever, nub, projection, protrusion, protuberance, snag, stud, swell, swelling, trigger, tumor, doorknob, knurl, opener |
| Main Entry: | lump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clump, mass |
| Synonyms: | agglomeration, ball, bit, block, bulge, bulk, bump, bunch, cake, chip, chunk, cluster, crumb, dab, group, growth, handful, hunk, knot, lot, morsel, mountain, much, nugget, part, peck, piece, pile, portion, protrusion, protuberance, scrap, section, solid, spot, swelling, tumor, wad, wedge, gob, knurl, tumescence |
| Main Entry: | node/nodule |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knot, growth |
| Synonyms: | bud, bulge, bump, clot, knob, lump, protuberance, swelling, tumor, burl |
| Main Entry: | protuberance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lump, outgrowth |
| Synonyms: | bulge, bump, excrescence, jut, jutting, knob, process, projection, prominence, protrusion, swelling, tumor, outthrust |
| Antonyms: | depression, ingrowth, sinkage |
| Main Entry: | tumor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abnormal growth in animate being |
| Synonyms: | bump, cancer, cyst, lump, swelling, carcinoma, neoplasm, sarcoma, tumefaction |
| Main Entry: | voluminous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, vast |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, bulky, capacious, cavernous, comprehensive, convoluted, copious, covering, expansive, extensive, full, great, large, legion, many, massive, multifarious, multitudinous, numerous, prolific, roomy, several, simple, spacious, sundry, swelling, various, billowing |
| Antonyms: | little, slight, small, tiny |
| Main Entry: | growing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | increasing |
| Synonyms: | animate, budding, crescent, enlarging, flourishing, living, maturing, spreading, swelling, thriving, viable, amplifying, augmenting, burgeoning, crescive, developing, dilating, expanding, fructifying, germinating, mushrooming, pullulating, sprouting, stretching, waxing |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinking, withering |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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