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burgeoning

[bur-juh-ning] / ˈbɜr dʒə nɪŋ /

ADJECTIVE

budding

Synonyms

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fledgling growing incipient nascent promising

STRONG

beginning blossoming germinal germinating maturing opening potential pullulating sprouting vegetating young

WEAK

bursting forth embryonic fresh pubescent shooting up

Antonyms

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dying shrinking withering

ADJECTIVE

flourishing

Synonyms

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blooming expanding growing prosperous thriving

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mushrooming rank roaring

WEAK

doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse rampant rich robust successful vigorous

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declining failing losing

WEAK

ceasing decreasing languishing stunted undeveloping

ADJECTIVE

green

Synonyms

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fresh grassy leafy lush raw tender verdant

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

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

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healthy

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adult dying mature old shrinking withering

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withered

ADJECTIVE

growing

Synonyms

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developing expanding flourishing spreading thriving viable

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

WEAK

crescive

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failing languishing

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dead dying shrinking

WEAK

lessening withering

ADJECTIVE

prospering

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blooming booming expanding growing mushrooming rank roaring thriving

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boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant rich robust successful thrifty vigorous

Antonyms

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declining

ADJECTIVE

roaring

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booming thriving

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blooming expanding growing lush mushrooming prospering rank rich

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boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant robust successful thrifty vigorous

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barren sparse

ADJECTIVE

thriving

Synonyms

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booming developing flourishing growing healthy prosperous robust wealthy

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advancing arrived blooming cooking progressing prospering roaring rolling

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doing well going strong have it made have the wherewithal home free on top of heap prolific rich sitting pretty

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failing infirm poor unhealthy

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declining languishing losing

ADJECTIVE

young

Synonyms

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budding inexperienced new youthful

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adolescent blooming blossoming crude developing fledgling green growing infant inferior junior juvenile little modern newborn punk raw recent tender tenderfoot

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boyish boylike callow childish childlike early fresh girlish girllike half-grown ignorant newish not aged pubescent puerile undeveloped undisciplined unfinished unfledged unlearned unpracticed unripe unseasoned untried unversed vernal

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experienced old

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adult healthy mature older sophisticated

NOUN

increase

Synonyms

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boost development escalation expansion gain hike increment inflation merger raise rise surge upsurge upturn

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access accession accretion accrual accumulation aggrandizement augmentation breakthrough cumulation elaboration enlargement exaggeration extension incorporation intensification markup maximization multiplication optimization spread step-up swell swelling upgrade waxing

Antonyms

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decline decrease drop loss shrinkage

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abridgment compression reduction

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depletion diminishment subtraction

Example Sentences

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Many have gone so far as to apply the precautionary principle here too: the burgeoning field of AI welfare is devoted to figuring out if and when we must care about machines.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Xi is wary of the burgeoning alliance between Kim and Putin, despite Beijing's close ties with both Pyongyang and Moscow.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

The Kansas City Chiefs tight end and burgeoning business titan has earned $111 million playing in the NFL.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

His message adds a powerful voice to the burgeoning resistance to the technology and comes at an inconvenient time for the AI industry.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

So the leaders of the burgeoning Montgomery bus revolt turned away from Claudette Colvin.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose

burgeoning

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