swell

Main Entry:
swell [swel]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wonderful
Synonyms: awesome, cool*, dandy*, deluxe, desirable, excellent, exclusive, fashionable, fine, fly*, grand, groovy*, keen, marvelous, neat, nifty, plush, posh, ritzy, smart, stylish, super, terrific
Antonyms: bad, horrible, shabby
Main Entry: swell
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become larger
Synonyms: accumulate, add to, aggravate, amplify, augment, balloon, be inflated, become bloated, become distended, become swollen, belly, billow, blister, bloat, bulge, dilate, distend, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, grow, grow larger, heighten, increase, intensity, mount, plump, pouch, pout, protrude, puff, puff up, rise, round out, surge, tumefy, uprise, well up
Antonyms: compress, concentrate, contract, shrink
Main Entry: abound
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: exist in abundance
Synonyms: be alive with, be all over the place, be knee deep in, be no end to, be plentiful, be thick with, be up to one's ears in, crawl with, crowd, flourish, flow, have a full plate, infest, overflow, proliferate, swarm, swell, teem, thrive
Antonyms: deficient, fail, lack, need, short, want
Main Entry: acceptable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: satisfactory, agreeable
Synonyms: A-OK, adequate, admissible, all right, average, big*, common, cooking with gas, cool*, copacetic, decent, delightful, fair, hep, hip*, hunky-dory, in the swim, kosher*, large, okay, on the ball, on the beam, passable, peachy keen, pleasant, pleasing, respectable, right on, standard, sufficient, swell*, tolerable, trendy, unexceptional, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff, welcome
Antonyms: disagreeable, disturbing, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unwelcome
Main Entry: accumulate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gather or amass something
Synonyms: accrue, acquire, add to, agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assemble, bring together, cache, clean up, collect, collocate, compile, concentrate, cumulate, draw together, expand, gain, gather, grow, heap, heap together, hoard, incorporate, increase, load up, lump*, make a bundle, make a killing, mass, pile up, pile*, procure, profit, rack up, roll up, round up, scare up, stack up, stockpile, store, store up, swell, unite
Antonyms: disperse, dissipate, dwindle, lessen, lose, spend, squander, waste
Main Entry: agreeable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pleasing
Synonyms: acceptable, dandy, delicious, delightful, enjoyable, fair, fine, gratifying, hunky-dory, mild, nice, peach, peachy*, pleasant, pleasurable, pleasureful, pussycat, ready, satisfying, spiffy, swell*, to one's liking, to one's taste, welcome
Antonyms: disagreeable, discordant, distasteful, harsh, hateful, mean, nasty, offensive, unpleasant
Main Entry: all right
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: satisfactory
Synonyms: acceptable, adequate, appropriate, average, decent, fair, fit, fitting, good, hunky-dory, okay, okey-dokey, passable, proper, satisfying, standard, sufficient, swell*, tolerable, unexceptional, unobjectionable
Antonyms: unsatisfactory
Main Entry: amiable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: friendly, agreeable
Synonyms: affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy, pleasant, pleasing, princely, pussycat, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning
Notes: amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign'
Antonyms: crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly
Main Entry: amplify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: increase in size or effect
Synonyms: add, augment, beef up, boost, build up, deepen, develop, elaborate, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, expatiate, extend, flesh out, heighten, hike up, inflate, intensify, jack up, lengthen, magnify, pad, pyramid, raise, soup up, strengthen, stretch, supplement, swell, up, widen
Antonyms: abridge, compress, condense, contract, curtail, decrease, lessen, reduce, shorten, summarize
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