Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com

expanding

ADJECTIVE
broadening
Synonyms
STRONG
advancing enlightening enriching improving refining
WEAK
cultural developmental educational
ADJECTIVE
cultural
Synonyms
STRONGEST
artistic developmental
WEAK
adorning advancing beautifying beneficial broadening civilizing constructive corrective dignifying disciplining edifying educative elevating ennobling enriching glorifying helpful humane humanizing influential inspirational instructive learned liberal liberalizing nurturing ornamenting polishing promoting raising refined refining regenerative socializing stimulating uplifting widening
ADJECTIVE
expansive
Synonyms
STRONGEST
extensive far-reaching inclusive wide-ranging
WEAK
all-embracing ample big dilatant elastic expansile great large scopic scopious stretching thorough unrepressed unsuppressed voluminous wide widespread
Antonyms
STRONGEST
narrow
WEAK
limited quiet reserved silent
ADJECTIVE
flourishing
Synonyms
STRONGEST
blooming burgeoning growing prosperous thriving
STRONG
mushrooming rank roaring
WEAK
doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse rampant rich robust successful vigorous
Antonyms
STRONGEST
declining failing losing
WEAK
ceasing decreasing languishing stunted undeveloping
ADJECTIVE
growing
Synonyms
STRONGEST
burgeoning developing flourishing spreading thriving viable
STRONG
amplifying animate augmenting budding crescent dilating enlarging fructifying germinating living maturing mushrooming pullulating sprouting stretching swelling waxing
WEAK
crescive
Antonyms
STRONGEST
failing languishing
STRONG
dead dying shrinking
WEAK
lessening withering
ADJECTIVE
increasing
Synonyms
STRONGEST
developing growing rising
STRONG
accumulating augmenting booming broadening enlarging flourishing maturing multiplying proliferating snowballing sprouting swelling waxing widening
WEAK
getting big piling up
ADJECTIVE
prospering
Synonyms
STRONG
blooming booming burgeoning growing mushrooming rank roaring thriving
WEAK
boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant rich robust successful thrifty vigorous
Antonyms
STRONG
declining
ADJECTIVE
roaring
Synonyms
STRONGEST
booming thriving
STRONG
blooming burgeoning growing lush mushrooming prospering rank rich
WEAK
boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant robust successful thrifty vigorous
Antonyms
STRONG
barren sparse
ADJECTIVE
tumescent
Synonyms
WEAK
bloated bulging bulgy bursting distended distent enlarged inflated puffed puffy tumid
NOUN
addition
Synonyms
STRONG
accretion computing counting reckoning summation
WEAK
accruing adding enlarging increasing summing tabulating totaling toting
Antonyms
WEAK
decrease deduction lessening loss reduction shrinkage subtraction withdrawal
NOUN
colonization
Synonyms
STRONG
clearing establishment expansion founding immigration migration settlement settling squatting transplanting
WEAK
opening up peopling pioneering populating
NOUN
totalization
Synonyms
WEAK
accretion accruing adding computing counting enlarging increasing reckoning summation summing tabulating totaling toting

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Expanding the service without safety monitors would likely boost shares.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

“Expanding organically requires boots on the ground. Expanding through M&A, it’s the quality of the team that could execute,” Dixon said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Expanding Venezuela’s current oil production of around one million barrels a day to 1.5 million is “completely doable,” Palacios assesses.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

Expanding economic activities into natural environments can disrupt ecosystems and increase the risk of disease spillover.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

Expanding my lungs with air, I straighten my shoulders and march away firmly, wondering when I will see them again.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung