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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rudimentary |
| Synonyms: | beginning, developing, early, elementary, evolving, germinal, immature, incipient, undeveloped |
| 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: | infant/infantile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very young |
| Synonyms: | baby, babyish, callow, childish, childlike, dawning, developing, early, emergent, green*, growing, immature, infantine, initial, juvenile, kid, naive, nascent, newborn, puerile, tender, unfledged, unripe, weak, youthful |
| Antonyms: | adult, grown-up, mature |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | living |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existing, active |
| Synonyms: | alert, alive, animated, around, awake, breathing, brisk, contemporary, continuing, current, developing, dynamic, existent, extant, in use, live, lively, ongoing, operative, persisting, strong, subsisting, ticking, vigorous, vital, warm |
| Antonyms: | dead, inactive |
| Main Entry: | ongoing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | continuous |
| Synonyms: | advancing, continuing, current, developing, evolving, extant, growing, heading, in process, in progress, marching, open-ended, progressing, successful, unfinished, unfolding |
| Antonyms: | incontinuous, infrequent, intermittent, stopping |
| Main Entry: | progressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liberal; growing |
| Synonyms: | accelerating, advanced, advancing, avant-garde*, bleeding-heart, broad, broad-minded, continuing, continuous, developing, dynamic, enlightened, enterprising, escalating, forward-looking, go-ahead, gradual, graduated, increasing, intensifying, left of center, left*, lenient, modern, ongoing, onward, open-minded, radical, reformist, revolutionary, tolerant, up-and-coming, up-to-date, wide |
| Antonyms: | conservative, moderate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | revolutionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, progressive |
| Synonyms: | advanced, advancing, avant-garde*, contemporary, cutting edge*, developing, forward-looking, innovative, just out, latest, left, modern, novel, open-minded, radical, state-of-the-art*, up-and-coming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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
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