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budding
| 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: | early |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in the beginning |
| Synonyms: | a bit previous, aboriginal, ancient, antecedent, antediluvian, antiquated, brand-new, budding, early bird, fresh, initial, new, original, preceding, premier, prevenient, previous, primal, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, prior, pristine, proleptical, raw, recent, undeveloped, young |
| Antonyms: | late |
| Main Entry: | emergent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resulting |
| Synonyms: | appearing, budding, coming, developing, efflorescent, emanant, emanating, issuing forth, outgoing, rising |
| Antonyms: | declining, dependent |
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, new, blooming |
| Synonyms: | bosky, budding, burgeoning, callow, developing, flourishing, foliate, fresh, grassy, growing, half-formed, immature, infant, juvenile, leafy, lush, maturing, pliable, puerile, pullulating, raw, recent, sprouting, supple, tender, undecayed, undried, unfledged, ungrown, unripe, unseasoned, verdant, verduous, youthful |
| Antonyms: | old, withered |
| Main Entry: | juvenile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childish |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, babyish, beardless, blooming, boyish, budding, callow, childlike, developing, formative, fresh, girlish, green, growing, immature, inexperienced, infant, infantile, jejune, junior, kid stuff, milk-fed, naive, pubescent, puerile, teenage, tender, undeveloped, unfledged, unripe, unsophisticated, unweaned, vernal, young, younger, youthful |
| Antonyms: | adult, grown-up, mature |
| Main Entry: | potential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | promising |
| Synonyms: | abeyant, budding, conceivable, dormant, embryonic, future, hidden, imaginable, implied, inherent, latent, likely, lurking, plausible, possible, prepatent, probable, quiescent, thinkable, undeveloped, unrealized, within realm of possibility |
| Antonyms: | helpless, impossible, lacking, unpromising |
| Main Entry: | spring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | season following winter |
| Synonyms: | blackberry winter, budding, budtime, flowering, prime, seedtime, springtide, springtime, vernal equinox, vernal season |
| Main Entry: | would-be |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aspiring |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, budding, eager, enterprising, hopeful, keen, potential, promising, prospective, striving, wannabe, wishful |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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