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sprouting

ADJECTIVE

blooming

Synonyms

STRONGEST

budding flourishing

STRONG

blossoming growing opening

WEAK

bearing fruit

Antonyms

WEAK

barren declining fading sterile unfruitful

ADJECTIVE

budding

Synonyms

STRONGEST

burgeoning fledgling growing incipient nascent promising

STRONG

beginning blossoming germinal germinating maturing opening potential pullulating vegetating young

WEAK

bursting forth embryonic fresh pubescent shooting up

Antonyms

WEAK

dying shrinking withering

ADJECTIVE

green

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fresh grassy leafy lush raw tender verdant

STRONG

budding burgeoning developing flourishing foliate growing immature infant juvenile maturing pullulating recent supple unripe

WEAK

bosky callow half-formed pliable puerile undecayed undried unfledged ungrown verduous youthful

Antonyms

STRONGEST

healthy

STRONG

adult dying mature old shrinking withering

WEAK

withered

ADJECTIVE

growing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

burgeoning developing expanding flourishing spreading thriving viable

STRONG

amplifying animate augmenting budding crescent dilating enlarging fructifying germinating living maturing mushrooming pullulating stretching swelling waxing

WEAK

crescive

Antonyms

STRONGEST

failing languishing

STRONG

dead dying shrinking

WEAK

lessening withering

ADJECTIVE

increasing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

developing expanding growing rising

STRONG

accumulating augmenting booming broadening enlarging flourishing maturing multiplying proliferating snowballing swelling waxing widening

WEAK

getting big piling up

ADJECTIVE

maturing

Synonyms

STRONG

advancing aging blossoming consummating developing evolving growing mellowing perfecting preparing sweetening

WEAK

growing up

Antonyms

WEAK

declining dying fading

NOUN

efflorescence

Synonyms

STRONG

anthesis developing flowering folding rash redness

NOUN

growth

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advance advancement expansion gain hike improvement increase production prosperity rise success surge

STRONG

aggrandizement augmentation boost buildup crop cultivation enlargement evolution extension flowering germination maturation multiplication produce proliferation stretching swell thickening unfolding vegetation waxing widening

WEAK

beefing up evolvement fleshing out heightening maturing up upping

Antonyms

STRONGEST

decline decrease failure halt loss stagnation stop worsening

STRONG

abridgment compression destruction reduction

WEAK

abatement diminishment lessening underdevelopment

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Visitors can expect yellows and splashes of orange, with more flowers sprouting every day.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

Images of seabirds, fish, and sprouting maize appear together on textiles, ceramics, pottery, wall carvings and paintings.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

Only raccoons are said to live in the Karlshorst buildings and birch saplings are sprouting out of a balcony.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

Humanoid-robotics companies are sprouting up from Shenzhen to Suzhou, with more than 140 and counting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

His front tire tilted high; he imagined wings sprouting from the handlebars and jet fire shooting from his seat as his back tire touched down on the opposite side of the creek.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

sprouting

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