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swollen - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: swollen
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: enlarged
Synonyms: bloated, distended, inflamed, inflated, puffed, puffy, tumescent, tumid, bulgy, distent
Antonyms: shrunken, compressed, contracted
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: 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: bombastic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pompous, grandiloquent
Synonyms: aureate, balderdash, declamatory, flowery, fustian, grandiose, high-flown, highfalutin*, histrionic, inflated, loudmouthed, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, sonorous, stuffed shirt*, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose, windbag*, windy, wordy, big-talking, euphuistic, full of hot air
Antonyms: humble, quiet, reserved, restrained
Main Entry: egotistic/egoistic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: thinking very highly of oneself
Synonyms: affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, conceited, egocentric, haughty, inflated, intimate, intrinsic, introverted, isolated, narcissistic, opinionated, personal, pompous, proud, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-important, snobbish, stuck-up*, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious, bragging, egomaniacal, individualistic, inner-directed, obsessive, prideful, puffed up, self-admiring, stuck on oneself
Antonyms: altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, shy, submissive, timid, unassuming, selfless
Main Entry: flatulent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretentious, long-winded
Synonyms: bombastic, inflated, oratorical, overblown, pompous, prolix, shallow, superficial, swollen, tedious, tumescent, tumid, turgid, windy, wordy
Antonyms: brief, unpretentious
Main Entry: flowery
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ornate, especially referring to speech or writing
Synonyms: aureate, baroque, bombastic, declamatory, diffuse, euphemistic, fancy, figurative, florid, grandiloquent, high-flown, magniloquent, overwrought, prolix, purple, redundant, rhetorical, rococo, sonorous, swollen, verbose, windy, wordy, embellished, euphuistic, ornamented
Antonyms: plain, unembellished, inelaborate, unflowery, unornate
Main Entry: grandiloquent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretentious, flowery (communication)
Synonyms: aureate, bombastic, declamatory, fustian, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple*, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, verbose, windbag*, windy*, big-talking, euphistic, tall-talking
Notes: grandiloquent means lofty in style, pompous, or bombastic; magniloquent means lofty and extravagant in speech
Antonyms: plain, simple, unadorned, unpretentious
Main Entry: inflated
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exaggerated
Synonyms: aureate, bloated, bombastic, diffuse, distended, enlarged, extended, filled, flatulent, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grown, magniloquent, ostentatious, overblown, pompous, pretentious, prolix, puffed, ranting, rhetorical, showy, spread, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, windy, wordy, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, dilated, dropsical, euphuistic, magnified, overestimated, pumped up, rhapsodical, stretched, surcharged
Antonyms: deflated, shrunken
Main Entry: rhetorical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wordy; flowery in speech
Synonyms: articulate, aureate, bombastic, declamatory, eloquent, exaggerated, flamboyant, flashy*, florid, fluent, glib*, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, imposing, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, oratorical, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overwrought, pompous, pretentious, showy, silver-tongued, sonorous, stilted, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, vocal, voluble, windy*, embellished, euphuistic, hyperbolic
Antonyms: concise
Main Entry: enlarged
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: increased
Synonyms: developed, distended, exaggerated, extended, inflated, spread, swollen, tumid, turgid, added to, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, blown up, broadened, caricatured, dilated, elaborated, expanded, filled out, intensified, lengthened, magnified, stretched, widened
Antonyms: reduced, shrunken, contracted
Main Entry: puffed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: expanded
Synonyms: bloated, distended, enlarged, inflated, swollen
Main Entry: fat
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overweight
Synonyms: beefy*, big, blimp, bovine, brawny, broad, bulging, bulky, bull, burly, chunky*, corpulent, distended, dumpy, elephantine, fleshy, gargantuan, gross, heavy, hefty, husky, inflated, lard, large, meaty*, obese, plump, ponderous, porcine, portly, pudgy*, roly-poly*, rotund, solid, stout, swollen, weighty, butterball, heavyset, jelly-belly, oversize, paunchy, plumpish, potbellied, thickset, whalelike
Antonyms: skinny, slender, slight, slim, thin
Main Entry: jammed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stuck fast
Synonyms: caught, fast, fastened, fixed, frozen, immovable, out of order, stiff, swollen, barred, blocked, clogged, lodged, malfunctioning, obstructed, sandwiched, trammeled, unworkable, warped, wedged
Antonyms: clear, loose, operating
Main Entry: inflamed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: congested
Synonyms: bloodshot, burnt, irritated, raw, red, sore, swollen, tender, blistered, chafed, festered, festering, fevered, infected, scalded, septic
Main Entry: abound
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: exist in abundance
Synonyms: be alive with, be all over the place, be knee deep in, be no end to, be plentiful, be thick with, be up to one's ears in, crawl with, crowd, flourish, flow, have a full plate, infest, overflow, proliferate, swarm, swell, teem, thrive
Antonyms: deficient, fail, lack, need, short, want
Main Entry: accumulate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gather or amass something
Synonyms: accrue, acquire, add to, agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assemble, cache, collect, collocate, compile, concentrate, expand, gain, gather, grow, heap, hoard, incorporate, increase, lump*, mass, pile*, procure, profit, rack up*, round up*, stockpile, store, swell, unite, bring together, clean up*, cumulate, draw together, heap together, load up, make a bundle, make a killing, pile up*, roll up*, scare up, stack up, store up
Antonyms: disperse, dissipate, dwindle, lessen, lose, spend, squander, waste
Main Entry: amplify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: increase in size or effect
Synonyms: add, augment, beef up*, boost, build up, deepen, develop, elaborate, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, expatiate, extend, heighten, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, pad, pyramid, raise, strengthen, stretch, supplement, swell, up, widen, flesh out, hike up, jack up, soup up
Antonyms: abridge, compress, condense, contract, curtail, decrease, lessen, reduce, shorten, summarize
Main Entry: augment
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make greater; improve
Synonyms: add to, aggrandize, amplify, beef up*, boost, build, build up, compound, develop, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, heighten, increase, inflate, intensify, magnify, mount, multiply, pad, progress, raise, reinforce, strengthen, sweeten, swell, piggyback, tag on
Antonyms: decrease, degrade
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