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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conception |
| Synonyms: | generation, procreation, propagation, reproduction |
| Main Entry: | extent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | range, magnitude |
| Synonyms: | admeasurement, ambit, amount, amplitude, area, bounds, breadth, bulk, capaciousness, compass, degree, dimensions, duration, elbowroom, expanse, expansion, extension, intensity, leeway, length, limit, mass, matter, measure, neighborhood, orbit, order, period of time, play, proliferation, proportions, purview, quantity, radius, reach, scope, size, space, spaciousness, span, sphere, stretch, sweep, term, territory, time, tract, tune, vicinity, volume, wideness, width |
| Main Entry: | growth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, aggrandizement, augmentation, beefing up, boost, buildup, crop, cultivation, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, expansion, extension, fleshing out, flowering, gain, germination, heightening, hike, improvement, increase, maturation, maturing, multiplication, produce, production, proliferation, prosperity, rise, sprouting, stretching, success, surge, swell, thickening, unfolding, up, upping, vegetation, waxing, widening |
| Antonyms: | abatement, decrease, diminishment, failure, lessening, reduction, stagnation, underdevelopment |
| Main Entry: | reproduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something duplicated; duplication |
| Synonyms: | Photostat, X-ray, Xerox, breeding, carbon copy, carbon, chip off old block, clone, copy, ditto*, dupe*, facsimile, fake, flimsy, generation, imitation, increase, look-alike, mimeo, mimeograph, mirror image, multiplication, offprint, photocopy, photograph, pic, picture, portrayal, print, procreation, proliferation, propagation, recreation, reduplication, reenactment, renewal, replica, replication, reprinting, repro, revival, stat, transcription, twin |
| Antonyms: | original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expansion, development; extent |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, compass, diffusion, dispersion, dissemination, enlargement, escalation, expanse, extension, increase, period, profusion, proliferation, radiation, ramification, range, reach, scope, span, spreading, stretch, suffusion, sweep, term, transfusion, transmission |
| Antonyms: | stagnation, suppression |
| Main Entry: | stretch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expanse |
| Synonyms: | amplitude, area, branch, breadth, bridge, compass, dimension, distance, expansion, extension, extent, gamut, length, orbit, proliferation, purview, radius, range, reach, region, scope, space, span, spread, sweep, tract, wing |
| Main Entry: | propagation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | procreation |
| Synonyms: | breeding, generation, multiplication, producing, proliferation, reproduction |
| Main Entry: | spawning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reproduction |
| Synonyms: | Photostat, X-ray, Xerox, breeding, carbon copy, carbon, chip off old block, clone, copy, ditto*, dupe*, facsimile, fake*, flimsy, generation, imitation, increase, look-alike, mimeo, mimeograph, mirror image, multiplication, offprint, photocopy, photograph, pic, picture, portrayal, print, procreation, proliferation, propagation, recreation, reduplication, reenactment, renewal, replica, replication, reprinting, repro, revival, stat, transcription, twin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Concept: | Reproduction. |
| Category: | 3. POWER IN OPERATION |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
reproduction, renovation; restoration; renewal; new edition, reprint, revival, regeneration, palingenesis, revivication; apotheosis; resuscitation, reanimation, resurrection, reappearance; regrowth; Phoenix., generation (production); multiplication.
-verbs
reproduce; restore; revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible; multiply, repeat; resurge., crop up, spring up like mushrooms.
-adjectives
reproduced; renascent, reappearing; reproductive; suigenetic.
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