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increasing

Main Entry:
increasing [in-kree-sing]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: becoming larger
Synonyms: accumulating, augmenting, booming, broadening, developing, enlarging, expanding, flourishing, getting big, growing, maturing, multiplying, piling up, proliferating, rising, snowballing, sprouting, swelling, waxing, widening
Main Entry: increase
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: add or grow
Synonyms: advance, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annex, augment, boost, broaden, build, build up, deepen, develop, dilate, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, expand, extend, further, heighten, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mark up, mount, multiply, pad, progress, proliferate, prolong, protract, pullulate, raise, redouble, reinforce, rise, sharpen, slap on, snowball, spread, step up, strengthen, supplement, swarm, swell, tack on, teem, thicken, triple, wax, widen
Antonyms: decrease, deplete, diminish, lose, subtract
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Increase.
Category: 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY; CHANGES IN QUANTITY
Synonyms:
-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].
Antonyms: decrease
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Main Entry: addition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: process of conjoining, adding
Synonyms: accession, adding, adjoining, affixing, annexation, attachment, augmentation, enlargement, extension, inclusion, increasing
Notes: an addition is something that, when added, serves simply to augment or extend that to which it has been added, leaving the character of the original unchanged; an addendum forms a separate distinguishable portion of the whole and it first meant 'a thing to be added'
Antonyms: decrease, deduction, lessening, loss, reduction, shrinkage, subtraction, withdrawal
Main Entry: addition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: arithmetical process of augmentation
Synonyms: accretion, accruing, adding, computing, counting, enlarging, expanding, increasing, reckoning, summation, summing, tabulating, totaling, toting
Notes: an addition is something that, when added, serves simply to augment or extend that to which it has been added, leaving the character of the original unchanged; an addendum forms a separate distinguishable portion of the whole and it first meant 'a thing to be added'
Antonyms: subtraction
Main Entry: consecutive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: in sequence
Synonyms: after, chronological, connected, constant, continuing, continuous, ensuing, following, going on, in order, in turn, increasing, later, logical, numerical, one after another, progressive, running, sequent, sequential, serial, serialized, seriate, seriatim, succedent, succeeding, successional, successive, understandable, uninterrupted
Antonyms: broken, discontinuous, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, unconsecutive
Main Entry: continuation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: addition; maintenance
Synonyms: assiduity, augmenting, continuance, continuing, continuity, duration, endurance, enduring, extension, furtherance, going on, increase, increasing, line, maintaining, perpetuating, perpetuation, persisting, postscript, preservation, preserving, producing, production, prolongation, prolonging, propagation, protracting, protraction, sequel, succession, supplement, sustaining, sustenance, tenacity
Antonyms: cessation, end, finish, halt, stop, termination
Main Entry: cumulative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: accruing; growing in size or effect
Synonyms: accumulative, additive, additory, advancing, aggregate, amassed, augmenting, chain, collective, heaped, heightening, increasing, increscent, intensifying, magnifying, multiplying, snowballing, summative
Antonyms: decreasing, subtracting
Main Entry: development
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: growth
Synonyms: adding to, addition, adulthood, advance, advancement, advancing, augmentation, augmenting, boost, buildup, chrysalis, developing, elaborating, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, evolving, expansion, flowering, hike, improvement, increase, increasing, making progress, maturation, maturing, maturity, ongoing, ontogenesis, ontogeny, perfecting, progress, progression, reinforcement, reinforcing, ripening, spread, spreading, unfolding, unraveling, upgrowth, upping
Antonyms: decline, decrease, stoppage
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