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mushrooming

ADJECTIVE
flourishing
Synonyms
STRONGEST
blooming burgeoning expanding growing prosperous thriving
STRONG
rank roaring
WEAK
doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse rampant rich robust successful vigorous
Antonyms
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declining failing losing
WEAK
ceasing decreasing languishing stunted undeveloping
ADJECTIVE
growing
Synonyms
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burgeoning developing expanding flourishing spreading thriving viable
STRONG
amplifying animate augmenting budding crescent dilating enlarging fructifying germinating living maturing pullulating sprouting stretching swelling waxing
WEAK
crescive
Antonyms
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failing languishing
STRONG
dead dying shrinking
WEAK
lessening withering
ADJECTIVE
prospering
Synonyms
STRONG
blooming booming burgeoning expanding growing rank roaring thriving
WEAK
boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant rich robust successful thrifty vigorous
Antonyms
STRONG
declining
ADJECTIVE
roaring
Synonyms
STRONGEST
booming thriving
STRONG
blooming burgeoning expanding growing lush prospering rank rich
WEAK
boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant robust successful thrifty vigorous
Antonyms
STRONG
barren sparse

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New data centres -- warehouse-like facilities that store online files and power AI tools from chatbots to image generators -- are mushrooming worldwide, and the sector is growing particularly fast in Asia.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

USC’s deficit grew dramatically during the final year of Folt’s tenure, mushrooming from $158 million to upwards of $200 million — an increase of more than 26%.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

The wave of protests mushrooming around the world has now forced a change of leadership in Madagascar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Workshops and underground waacking jams - events where dancers battle it out with their moves - are mushrooming in several cities and international waacking legends are visiting the country to teach the dance.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2024

“Sometimes I dream lightning strikes. Or earthquakes. Sometimes it’s dark clouds mushrooming in the sky. I wake troubled.”

From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes