Antonyms for development
dɪˈvɛl əp məntde·vel·op·ment

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1. development

   Education (Latin educere, to lead or draw out) is the systematic development and cultivation of the mind and other natural powers. "Education is the harmonious development of all our faculties. It begins in the nursery, and goes on at school, but does not end there. It continues through life, whether we will or not.... 'Every person,' says Gibbon, 'has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.'" John Lubbock The Use of Life ch. vii, p. 111. [Macmillan & Co. '94.] Instruction, the impartation of knowledge by others (Latin instruere, to build in or into) is but a part of education, often the smallest part. Teaching is the more familiar and less formal word for instruction. Training refers not merely to the impartation of knowledge, but to the exercising of one in actions with the design to form habits. Discipline is systematic and rigorous training, with the idea of subjection to authority and perhaps of punishment. Tuition is the technical term for teaching as the business of an instructor or as in the routine of a school; tuition is narrower than teaching, not, like the latter word, including training. Study is emphatically what one does for himself. We speak of the teaching, training, or discipline, but not of the education or tuition of a dog or a horse. Breeding and nurture include teaching and training, especially as directed by and dependent upon home life and personal association; breeding having reference largely to manners with such qualities as are deemed distinctively characteristic of high birth; nurture (literally nourishing) having more direct reference to moral qualities, not overlooking the physical and mental. Knowledge and learning tell nothing of mental development apart from the capacity to acquire and remember, and nothing whatever of that moral development which is included in education in its fullest and noblest sense; learning, too, may be acquired by one's unaided industry, but any full education must be the result in great part of instruction, training, and personal association. Study is emphatically what one does for himself, and in which instruction and tuition can only point the way, encourage the student to advance, and remove obstacles; vigorous, persevering study is one of the best elements of training. Study is also used in the sense of the thing studied, a subject to be mastered by study, a studious pursuit. Compare KNOWLEDGE; REFINEMENT; WISDOM.

   Compare synonyms for IGNORANT.

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, illiteracy

   Synonyms:
   breeding, cultivation, culture, discipline, education, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, reading, schooling, study, teaching, training, tuition

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1. development

   Antonyms:
   cause, origin, source, principal

   Synonyms:
   outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.1 / 8 votes

1. developmentnoun

   act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining

   "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development"

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

   Synonyms:
   ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

2. development, evolutionnoun

   a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

   "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

   Synonyms:
   phylogenesis, ontogenesis, growth, developing, phylogeny, growing, organic evolution, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

3. growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesisnoun

   (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

   "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

   Synonyms:
   emergence, ripening, maturation, suppuration, increase, ontogenesis, maturement, growth, evolution, developing, outgrowth, ontogeny, increment, exploitation, growing, festering

4. developmentnoun

   a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation

   "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!"

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

   Synonyms:
   ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

5. exploitation, developmentnoun

   the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful

   "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits"

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

   Synonyms:
   ontogenesis, maturation, using, growth, developing, victimization, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, victimisation, evolution

6. developmentnoun

   a district that has been developed to serve some purpose

   "such land is practical for small park developments"

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

   Synonyms:
   ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

7. developmentnoun

   a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

   "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen"

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

   Synonyms:
   ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

8. development, developingnoun

   processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

   "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

   Synonyms:
   ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

9. developmentnoun

   (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

   Synonyms:
   ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

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1. developmentnoun

   Antonyms:
   atrophy, undevelopment, abortion, embryo

   Synonyms:
   unfoldment, progression, evolution, hypertrophy (excessive development)

How to use development in a sentence?

1. Michael Ryan:

   The difficulty we collectively face at the moment is just when we need that unlimited and unfettered access to communities we have lost that access in key areas, this is a very dangerous and alarming development.

2. Jonathan Green:

   We would never want to say that early intervention is the only thing that's needed in autism, but there's something about early development that might be amenable to intervention.

3. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   Nobody is seeking that kind of development.

4. Representative Henry Cuellar:

   I've seen communities, especially the rural communities change, I've seen jobs, economic development.

5. Stephane Hallegatte:

   The report demonstrates that ending poverty and fighting climate change cannot be done in isolation -- the two will be much more easily achieved if they are addressed together, and between now and 2030, good, climate-informed development gives us the best chance we have of warding off increases in poverty due to climate change.

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