Synonyms for growth
groʊθgrowth

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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.

   Synonyms:
   increment, increase, enlargement, expansion

   Antonyms:
   decrement, contraction, decrease, reduction

2. growthnoun

   the act of growing, getting bigger or higher

   Synonyms:
   development, maturation

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

3. growthnoun

   something that grows or has grown

   Synonyms:
   vegetation

4. growthnoun

   an abnormal mass such as a tumor

   Synonyms:
   mass, cancer, outgrowth

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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. 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

Matched Categories

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

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1. growthnoun

   Synonyms:
   increase, expansion, development

2. growthnoun

   Synonyms:
   produce, product

3. growthnoun

   Synonyms:
   advancement, advance, progress, improvement

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1. growthnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   atrophy, decrease, blasting, undevelopment

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1. List of paraphrases for "growth":

   growing, increase, grow, development, rise, expansion, croissance, grew, developed, progression

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How to use growth in a sentence?

1. Andreas Essig:

   Horse dung is a very rich substrate that harbours a diversity of micro-organisms, including fungi and bacteria, now these micro-organisms are in a constant competition for nutrients and space and it's therefore very likely to find potent antibiotics in such an environment, which are used by the different organisms to inhibit the growth of the competitors.

2. Clarksons Platou analyst Frode Morkedal:

   ( The) fundamental problem is not fleet growth but negative demand growth. Slowing economic growth and significant turmoil in commodity prices is resulting in extremely low chartering activity.

3. David Stadnyk:

   We're always looking for new markets and the UK is poised for growth.

4. Richard Ji:

   This is a quick and cost-effective way to help grow your young businesses without relying on the main listed company for funding needs, these young businesses are usually loss making but once you become part of a listed entity in Hong Kong, it makes it easy to raise capital to finance future growth.

5. The IMF:

   If true, this would mean the U.S. economy could soon bump up against capacity constraints that would slow growth and generate domestic inflationary pressures with negative global spillovers.