| Main Entry: | boom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prosperity |
Synonyms: |
advance, boost, development, expansion, gain, growth, improvement, increase, inflation, jump, prosperousness, push, rush, spurt, upsurge, upswing, upturn |
Antonyms: |
collapse, failure, loss |
| Main Entry: | improvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bettering; something bettered |
Synonyms: |
advance, advancement, amelioration, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, meliorism, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, rectification, reformation, regeneration, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing |
Antonyms: |
damage, decline, decrease, diminishing, harm, hurt, injury, weakening, worsening |
| Main Entry: | leap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jump; increase |
Synonyms: |
bound, caper, escalation, frisk, hop, rise, skip, spring, surge, upsurge, upswing, vault |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase, improvement |
Synonyms: |
acceleration, accession, accretion, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, ascent, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, climb, distention, doubling, enlargement, growth, heightening, hike, increment, inflation, intensification, intensifying, multiplication, piling up, progress, promotion, raise, stacking up, step-up, surge, swell, upgrade, upsurge, upswing, upturn, waxing |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, drop, fall, slump, worsening |
| Main Entry: | upswing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement |
Synonyms: |
boom, growth, increase, upturn |
| Main Entry: | upturn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement |
Synonyms: |
recovery, recuperation, upswing |
| Main Entry: | upsurge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase |
Synonyms: |
advance, boom, improvement, recovery, rise, upswing, upturn |
Antonyms: |
downturn |
| Main Entry: | aggrandizement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase |
Synonyms: |
aggrandization, amplification, augment, augmentation, boost, buildup, enlargement, escalation, growth, multiplication, raise, rise, swell, upsurge, upswing, upturn |
| Main Entry: | melioration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement |
Synonyms: |
advance, advancement, amelioration, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, rectification, reformation, regeneration, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing |
| Concept: | Leap. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation., dance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade, gambado; capriole, demivolt; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade., kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea; buckjumper; wallaby.
-verbs
leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk (amusement); jump about (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.
-adjectives
leaping; saltatory, frisky.
-adverbs
on the light fantastic toe.
-phrases
di salto in salto.
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Antonyms: |
plunge |
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