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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | praise |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, acclamation, accolade, applause, appreciation, approbation, approval, big hand, boost, bravo, celebration, cheer, cheering, citation, commendation, compliment, cry, devotion, encomium, enlargement, esteem, eulogy, exaggeration, exaltation, extolment, flattery, glorification, glory, good word, homage, hurrah, hymn, kudos*, laudation, obeisance, ovation, overstatement, panegyric, pat on the back, plaudit, puff, rave, recognition, recommendation, regard, sycophancy, thanks, tribute, worship |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amplification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase in size or effect |
| Synonyms: | addition, augmentation, boost, boosting, buildup, deepening, development, elaboration, enlargement, exaggeration, expansion, expatiation, extension, fleshing out, heightening, intensification, lengthening, magnification, padding, raising, strengthening, stretching, supplementing, upping, widening |
| Antonyms: | abridgement, compression, condensation, contraction, decrease, lessening, shortening |
| Main Entry: | augmentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | making greater; improving |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, amplification, beefing up, boost, buildup, development, enhancement, enlargement, enrichment, expansion, extension, fleshing out, growth, heightening, hike, increase, increment, inflation, intensification, magnification, multiplication, raise, reinforcement, rise, strengthening, swelling, up, upping |
| Antonyms: | decrease, degradation |
| Main Entry: | celebration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commemoration of occasion, achievement |
| Synonyms: | anniversary, bash*, birthday, blast*, blowout, carousal, ceremony, conviviality, festival, festivity, fete, frolic, gaiety, gala, glorification, hilarity, honoring, hoopla, hullabaloo*, jollification, joviality, jubilation, jubilee, keeping, magnification, memorialization, merriment, merrymaking, observance, party, performance, recognition, remembrance, revelry, saturnalia, solemnization, spree, triumph, wingding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elevation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advancement, promotion |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, apotheosis, boost, deification, eminence, ennoblement, exaltation, exaltedness, glorification, grandeur, immortalization, lionization, loftiness, magnification, nobility, nobleness, preference, preferment, prelation, raise, sublimity, upgrading |
| Notes: | an elevation is a two-dimensional scale drawing of something as if one were viewing it from one side; a section is a two-dimensional scale drawing of one part or detail of an object or structure; and a plan is a two-dimensional scale drawing showing the view of an object or structure as if one were looking down on it from above |
| Antonyms: | demotion, disdain, spurning |
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
| Antonyms: | minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exaltation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | promotion, praise |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, acclamation, advancement, aggrandizement, apotheosis, applause, blessing, dignity, elevation, eminence, ennoblement, extolment, glorification, glory, grandeur, high rank, homage, honor, idolization, laudation, lionization, loftiness, magnification, panegyric, plaudits, prestige, reverence, rise, tribute, upgrading, uplifting, worship |
| Antonyms: | castigation, condemnation, criticism, debasement, denunciation, humiliation |
| Main Entry: | expansion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
| Synonyms: | amplification, augmentation, breadth, development, diffusion, dilation, distance, distension, enlargement, evolution, expanse, extension, increase, inflation, magnification, maturation, multiplication, opening out, space, spread, stretch, swelling, unfolding, unfurling |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinkage, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | hyperbole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
| Synonyms: | PR, amplification, big talk, coloring, distortion, embellishment, embroidering, enlargement, hype*, laying it on thick, magnification, metaphor, mountain out of molehill, overstatement, tall talk |
| Antonyms: | understatement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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