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

Example Sentences

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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

Malaysia's share of the market is sprouting fast, having earned a reputation with premium varieties such as the Musang King.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

Hospitals were early AI users, long before massive data centers started sprouting across the U.S. landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

This process, known as sprouting, helped compensate for cells that were lost due to injury.

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025

It stretched into a three-foot-long wooden staff with dove wings sprouting out the top.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

sprouting

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