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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | egotistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceited |
| Synonyms: | affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, conceited, egocentric, haughty, idiosyncratic, inborn, inflated, ingrained, inherent, intimate, intrinsic, introverted, isolated, narcissistic, opinionated, personal, pompous, proud, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-important, snobbish, stuck-up, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious, bragging, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, individualistic, inner-directed, obsessive, prideful, puffed up, self-admiring |
| Antonyms: | altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, unpretentious, selfless |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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