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unfolding
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development |
| Synonyms: | adding to, addition, adulthood, advance, advancement, advancing, augmentation, augmenting, boost, buildup, developing, elaborating, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, evolving, expansion, flowering, growth, hike, improvement, increase, increasing, making progress, maturation, maturing, maturity, ongoing, perfecting, progress, progression, reinforcement, reinforcing, ripening, spread*, spreading, unraveling, upgrowth, upping |
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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bombastic, egregious, exaggerated, extravagant, fabulous, high, on stilts, overwrought, preposterous, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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| Concept: | Addition. |
| Category: | 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY |
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-nouns
addition, annexation, adjection; junction; superposition, superaddition, superjunction, superfetation; accession, reinforcement; increase; increment, supplement; accompaniment; interposition; insertion.
-verbs
add, annex, affix, superadd, subjoin, superpose; clap on, saddle on; tack to, append, tag; ingraft; saddle with; sprinkle; introduce (interpose); insert., become added, accrue; advene, supervene., reenforce, restrengthen; reinforce, swell the ranks of; augment.
-adjectives
added; additional; supplemental, supplementary; suppletory, subjunctive; adjectitious, adscititious, ascititious; additive, extra, accessory.
-adverbs
au reste, in addition, more, plus, extra; and, also, likewise, too, furthermore, further, item; and also, and eke; else, besides, to boot, et cetera; and so on, and so forth; into the bargain, cum multis aliis, over and above, moreover., with, withal; including, inclusive, as well as, not to mention, let alone; together with, along with, coupled with, in conjunction with; conjointly; jointly.
-phrases
adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
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| Antonyms: | nonaddition |
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| Concept: | [Motion in the reverse circle] Evolution. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
evolution, unfolding, development; evolvement; unfoldment; eversion (inversion).
-verbs
evolve; unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine, unravel; disentangle; develop.
-adjectives
evolving; evolved.
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| Concept: | Exaggeration. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
exaggeration; expansion; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura; extravagance (nonsense); Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry., storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing (overestimation); puff, puffery (boasting); rant (turgescence)., figure of speech, facon de parler; stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination; flight of fancy (imagination)., false coloring (falsehood); aggravation.
-verbs
exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify (expand); overestimate; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous., out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random., heighten, overcolor; color highly, color too highly; broder; flourish; color (misrepresent); puff (boast).
-adjectives
exaggerated; overwrought; bombastic (grandiloquent); hyperbolical, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying.
-adverbs
hyperbolically
-phrases
excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo [Cicero].
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| Concept: | Expansion. |
| Category: | 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
expansion; increase of size; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion; obesity (size); hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation., dilatability, expansibility., germination, growth, upgrowth; accretion; budding, gemmation., overgrowth, overdistension; hypertrophy, tympany., bulb (convexity); plumper; superiority of size.
-verbs
become larger (large [more]); expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun., be larger than; surpass (be superior)., render larger (large [more]); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.
-adjectives
expanded; larger (large [more]; swollen; expansive; wide-open, wide-spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying.
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| Antonyms: | contraction |
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| Concept: | Increase. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY; CHANGES IN QUANTITY |
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-nouns
increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation (expansion); increment, accretion; accession; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent; exaggeration, exacerbation; spread (dispersion); flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit.
-verbs
increase, augment, add to, enlarge; dilate (expand); grow, wax, get ahead; gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; ascend; sprout., aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate; add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd (add) [more]; spread (disperse).
-adjectives
increased; on the increase, undiminished; additional (added).
-adverbs
crescendo.
-phrases
vires acquirit eundo [Vergil].
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| Antonyms: | decrease |
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