Nearby Words
out growth
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | projection |
| Synonyms: | bulge, enlargement, excrescence, jut, node, offshoot, outcrop, process, prolongation, prominence, protuberance, shoot, sprout, swelling |
| Antonyms: | ingrowth |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
| Synonyms: | appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | by-product |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | side product |
| Synonyms: | after-effect, consequence, fall-out, offshoot, outgrowth, repercussion, result, side effect, spinoff |
| Main Entry: | consequence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | result, outcome of action |
| Synonyms: | aftereffect, aftermath, bottom line, can of worms, chain reaction, effect, end, event, fallout, follow through, follow-up, issue, outgrowth, payback, reaction, repercussion, sequel, sequence, spin-off, upshot, waves |
| Antonyms: | beginning, cause, commencement, inception, origin, rise, source, start |
| Main Entry: | derivative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | product, descendant |
| Synonyms: | by-product, offshoot, outgrowth, spin-off, wave |
| Antonyms: | invention, original, root, source |
| Main Entry: | effect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | result |
| Synonyms: | aftereffect, aftermath, backlash, backwash, can of worms, causatum, chain reaction, conclusion, consequence, corollary, denouement, development, end, end product, event, eventuality, fallout, flak, follow through, follow-up, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, precipitate, pursuance, ramification, reaction, reflex, repercussion, response, sequel, sequence, side effect, spin-off, upshot, waves |
| Notes: | as a noun, affect means 'a feeling or emotion,' whereas effect means 'the result or consequence of some action or process'; as a verb, to affect means 'to exert an influence upon,' and implies the action of a stimulus that can produce a response or reaction, whereas to effect means 'to bring about as a result' effect is a noun referring to a thing, but if you mean an action, that is affect; if you want the verb meaning 'achieve, bring about,' that is effect |
| Antonyms: | beginning, cause, commencement, foundation, origin, source, start |
| Main Entry: | event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | effect, result |
| Synonyms: | aftereffect, aftermath, case, causatum, chance, conclusion, consequence, end, end result, eventuality, fortuity, hap, happenstance, issue, offshoot, outcome, outgrowth, product, resultant, sequel, sequent, termination, upshot |
| Antonyms: | cause, source |
| Main Entry: | growth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tumor |
| Synonyms: | cancer, cancroid, excrescence, fibrous tissue, fibrousness, fungus, lump, mole, outgrowth, parasite, polyp, swelling, thickening, wen |
| Main Entry: | offshoot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, product |
| Synonyms: | adjunct, appendage, branch, by-product, derivative, descendant, limb, outgrowth, spin-off, sprout |
| Antonyms: | origin, source |
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