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Blossoming
| Main Entry: |
budding
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | developing, flowering |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blossoming, burgeoning, bursting forth, embryonic, fledgling, fresh, germinal, germinating, growing, incipient, maturing, nascent, opening, potential, promising, pubescent, pullulating, shooting up, sprouting, vegetating, young |
| Antonyms: | dying, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | fruitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, blossoming, breeding, childing, conducive, copious, effective, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, fructiferous, gainful, plenteous, plentiful, profitable, profuse, proliferant, prolific, propagating, reproducing, rewarding, rich, spawning, successful, useful, well-spent, worthwhile |
| Antonyms: | barren, impotent, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | successful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | favorable, profitable |
| Synonyms: | acknowledged, advantageous, ahead of the game, at the top, at top of ladder, auspicious, bestselling, blooming, blossoming, booming, champion, crowned, efficacious, extraordinary, flourishing, fortuitous, fortunate, fruitful, happy, lucky, lucrative, moneymaking, notable, noteworthy, on track, out in front, outstanding, paying, prosperous, rewarding, rolling, strong, thriving, top, triumphant, unbeaten, undefeated, victorious, wealthy |
| Antonyms: | forfeiting, losing, unfavorable, unprofitable, unsuccessful |
| Main Entry: | young |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, blooming, blossoming, boyish, boylike, budding, burgeoning, callow, childish, childlike, crude, developing, early, fledgling, fresh, girlish, girllike, green*, growing, half-grown, ignorant, inexperienced, infant, inferior, junior, juvenile, little, modern, new, newborn, newish, not aged, pubescent, puerile, punk, raw, recent, tender, tenderfoot, undeveloped, undisciplined, unfinished, unfledged, unlearned, unpracticed, unripe, unseasoned, untried, unversed, vernal, youthful |
| Notes: | to be young is to be immature or not old; to be youthful is having the attractive qualities of a young person |
| Antonyms: | mature, old, older |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blooming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flowering |
| Synonyms: | bearing fruit, blossoming, budding, flourishing, growing, opening, sprouting |
| Antonyms: | barren, sterile, unfruitful |
| Main Entry: | maturing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ripening |
| Synonyms: | advancing, aging, blossoming, consummating, developing, evolving, growing, growing up, mellowing, perfecting, preparing, sprouting, sweetening |
| Antonyms: | declining, dying, fading |
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| Concept: | Production. |
| Category: | 3. POWER IN OPERATION |
| Synonyms: |
-adjectives
produced, producing; productive of; prolific; creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous., digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic; ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous., architectonic.
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| Antonyms: | destruction |
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