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burgeoning
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bloom |
| Synonyms: | blossom, bud, expand, flower, grow, increase, mushroom, prosper, snowball, sprout, thrive |
| Antonyms: | shrink |
| Main Entry: | flourishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prospering, going well |
| Synonyms: | blooming, burgeoning, doing well, expanding, exuberant, going strong, growing, in full swing, in the pink, in top form, lush, luxuriant, mushrooming, profuse, prosperous, rampant, rank, rich, roaring, robust, successful, thriving, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | ceasing, decreasing, failing, languishing, stunted, undeveloping |
| 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: | increase |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition, growth |
| Synonyms: | access, accession, accretion, accrual, accumulation, aggrandizement, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, burgeoning, cumulation, development, elaboration, enlargement, escalation, exaggeration, expansion, extension, gain, hike, incorporation, increment, inflation, intensification, maximization, merger, multiplication, optimization, raise, rise, spread, step-up, surge, swell, swelling, upgrade, upsurge, upturn, waxing |
| Antonyms: | decrease, depletion, diminishment, loss, subtraction |
| Main Entry: | thriving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | successful |
| Synonyms: | advancing, arrived, blooming, booming, burgeoning, cooking*, developing, doing well, flourishing, going strong, growing, have it made, have the wherewithal, healthy, home free, on top of heap, progressing, prolific, prospering, prosperous, rich, roaring, robust, rolling, sitting pretty, wealthy |
| Antonyms: | declining, failing, languishing, losing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | growing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | increasing |
| Synonyms: | amplifying, animate, augmenting, budding, burgeoning, crescent, crescive, developing, dilating, enlarging, expanding, flourishing, fructifying, germinating, living, maturing, mushrooming, pullulating, spreading, sprouting, stretching, swelling, thriving, viable, waxing |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | prospering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flourishing |
| Synonyms: | blooming, booming, boomy, burgeoning, doing well, expanding, exuberant, going strong, growing, in full swing, in the pink, in top form, lush, luxuriant, mushrooming, profuse, prosperous, rampant, rank*, rich, roaring, robust, successful, thrifty, thriving, vigorous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flourishing |
| Synonyms: | blooming, booming, boomy, burgeoning, doing well, expanding, exuberant, going strong, growing, in full swing, in the pink, in top form, lush, luxuriant, mushrooming, profuse, prospering, prosperous, rampant, rank*, rich, robust, successful, thrifty, thriving, vigorous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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