Antonyms for growth
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WiktionaryRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. growthnoun

   an increase in size, number, value, or strength

   Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.

   Antonyms:
   decrement, contraction, decrease, reduction

   Synonyms:
   increment, increase, enlargement, expansion

2. growthnoun

   the act of growing, getting bigger or higher

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

   Synonyms:
   development, maturation

3. growthnoun

   something that grows or has grown

   Synonyms:
   vegetation

4. growthnoun

   an abnormal mass such as a tumor

   Synonyms:
   mass, cancer, outgrowth

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. growth

   Harvest, from the Anglo-Saxon, signified originally "autumn," and as that is the usual season of gathering ripened crops in Northern lands, the word came to its present meaning of the season of gathering ripened grain or fruits, whether summer or autumn, and hence a crop gathered or ready for gathering; also, the act or process of gathering a crop or crops. "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few," Luke x, 2. "Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest," John iv, 35. Harvest is the elegant and literary word; crop is the common and commercial expression; we say a man sells his crop, but we should not speak of his selling his harvest; we speak of an ample or abundant harvest, a good crop. Harvest is applied almost wholly to grain; crop applies to almost anything that is gathered in; we speak of the potato-crop, not the potato-harvest; we may say either the wheat-crop or the wheat-harvest. Produce is a collective word for all that is produced in farming or gardening, and is, in modern usage, almost wholly restricted to this sense; we speak of produce collectively, but of a product or various products; vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter, etc., may be termed farm-produce, or the products of the farm. Product is a word of wider application than produce; we speak of the products of manufacturing, the products of thought, or the product obtained by multiplying one number by another. The word proceeds is chiefly used of the return from an investment: we speak of the produce of a farm, but of the proceeds of the money invested in farming. The yield is what the land gives up to the farmer's demand; we speak of the return from an expenditure of money or labor, but of the yield of corn or oats. Harvest has also a figurative use, such as crop more rarely permits; we term a religious revival a harvest of souls; the result of lax enforcement of law is a harvest of crime. As regards time, harvest, harvest-tide, and harvest-time alike denote the period or season when the crops are or should be gathered (tide being simply the old Saxon word for time). Harvest-home ordinarily denotes the festival of harvest, and when used to denote simply the season always gives a suggestion of festivity and rejoicing, such as harvest and harvest-time by themselves do not express.

   Synonyms:
   crop, fruit, harvest, harvest-feast, harvest-festival, harvest-home, harvest-tide, harvest-time, harvesting, increase, ingathering, proceeds, produce, product, reaping, result, return, yield

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1. • Biology
   • Evolution
   • Illness
   • Object
   • Organic Process
   • Pathology
   • Process
   • Vegetation

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. 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"

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

2. growthnoun

   a progression from simpler to more complex forms

   "the growth of culture"

   Synonyms:
   increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development

3. increase, increment, growthnoun

   a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

   "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"

   Synonyms:
   increase, ontogenesis, gain, emergence, growing, addition, ontogeny, development, maturation, increment, outgrowth, step-up

4. growthnoun

   vegetation that has grown

   "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"

   Synonyms:
   increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development

5. emergence, outgrowth, growthnoun

   the gradual beginning or coming forth

   "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"

   Synonyms:
   development, process, emergence, maturation, egression, offshoot, emersion, outgrowth, ontogeny, increment, ontogenesis, growing, offset, branch, appendage, issue, increase, egress

6. growthnoun

   (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

   Synonyms:
   increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development

7. growthnoun

   something grown or growing

   "a growth of hair"

   Synonyms:
   increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development

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1. growthnoun

   Antonyms:
   atrophy, decrease, blasting, undevelopment

   Synonyms:
   growing, development, accretion, extension, increase, augmentation, increment, enlargement, excrescence hypertrophy, overgrowth, germination, cultivation, pullulation, sprouting

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. contraption

   natural; non-mechanical

   the trees aren't a contraption created by humans.

   Submitted by rinat on June 11, 2017  

How to use growth in a sentence?

1. Laurence Msall:

   The pension pressures will continue, and Illinois' financial challenges will continue, but at least there will be a framework to recognize there's a limit to the liability growth to this state.

2. Greg Behar:

   Most of the emerging markets are offering amazing growth opportunities.

3. Jay Morelock:

   While we may see improvement in durable orders over the next several months, robust growth is not in the cards given the global economic situation, weak foreign demand, tough competition from cheaper imports and lower commodity prices will continue to weigh on domestic manufacturers in the foreseeable future.

4. Brittany Smith:

   We don't see a lot of growth. But we do see some, and so this looked like an opportunity for the locals to benefit as well as the city and the county to benefit.

5. Aaron Kohli:

   In the last year or two, inflation break-evens were well ahead of the market in terms of looking at the global growth problems that we’ve been having.

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