Synonyms for swell
swɛlswell

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1. swellnoun

   A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.

   Synonyms:
   dandy, dude, toff

2. swellnoun

   A person of high social standing; an important person.

   Synonyms:
   toff

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. swell

   Synonyms:
   dilate, extend, enlarges, heighten, heave, enhance, rise, expand, increase, augment, protuberate, aggravate, amplify, distend

   Antonyms:
   contract, curtail, shrivel, diminish, lessen, retrench, reduce, collapse, fold, narrow, condense, concentrate

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. swell, crestless wavenoun

   the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea

   Synonyms:
   crestless wave, sheik, beau, dude, fashion plate, gallant, clotheshorse, dandy, fop

   Antonyms:
   bad

2. swellnoun

   a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)

   Synonyms:
   crestless wave, sheik, beau, dude, fashion plate, gallant, clotheshorse, dandy, fop

   Antonyms:
   bad

3. swellnoun

   a crescendo followed by a decrescendo

   Synonyms:
   crestless wave, sheik, beau, dude, fashion plate, gallant, clotheshorse, dandy, fop

   Antonyms:
   bad

4. dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorseadjective

   a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

   Synonyms:
   fop, boyfriend, tribal sheik, squire, yawl, beau, tribal sheikh, young man, swain, sheik, dude, crestless wave, fashion plate, gallant, clotheshorse, sheikh, fellow, buster, dandy

   Antonyms:
   bad

5. bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashingverb

   very good

   "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

   Antonyms:
   bad

6. swellverb

   increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity

   "The music swelled to a crescendo"

   Synonyms:
   swell up, tumesce, intumesce, well up, puff up, tumefy, well

   Antonyms:
   bad

7. swell, puff upverb

   become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger

   "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"

   Synonyms:
   swell up, blow up, well up, puff up, puff out, tumefy, puff, intumesce, tumesce, well

   Antonyms:
   bad

8. swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesceverb

   expand abnormally

   "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

   Synonyms:
   swell up, well up, bubble up, puff up, tumefy, intumesce, tumesce, well

   Antonyms:
   bad

9. well up, swellverb

   come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)

   "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"

   Synonyms:
   swell up, well up, tumefy, intumesce, tumesce, puff up, well

   Antonyms:
   bad

10. well, swellverb

    come up, as of a liquid

    "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up"

    Synonyms:
    swell up, well up, tumefy, intumesce, tumesce, puff up, well

    Antonyms:
    bad

11. swellverb

    cause to become swollen

    "The water swells the wood"

    Synonyms:
    swell up, tumesce, intumesce, well up, puff up, tumefy, well

    Antonyms:
    bad

Matched Categories

1. • Arise
   • Behave
   • Crescendo
   • Grow
   • Increase
   • Natural Elevation
   • Rise
   • Wave

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. swellverb

   Synonyms:
   dilate, expand, intumesce, grow larger or bigger (by expansion)

2. swellverb

   Synonyms:
   increase (by outward addition), augment, enlarge

3. swellverb

   Synonyms:
   rise (as waves), heave, surge

4. swellverb

   Synonyms:
   belly, be inflated

5. swellverb

   Synonyms:
   strut, look big, put on airs, be puffed up

6. swellverb

   Synonyms:
   be turgid or bombastic

7. swellverb

   Synonyms:
   bulge, protuberate, swell out

8. swellverb

   Synonyms:
   dilate, expand, inflate

9. swellverb

   Synonyms:
   enhance, heighten, aggravate

10. swellverb

    Synonyms:
    puff up, make arrogant

11. swellnoun

    Synonyms:
    swelling

12. swellnoun

    Synonyms:
    waves, billows

13. swellnoun

    Synonyms:
    [Colloquial.] fop, coxcomb, dandy, beau, exquisite, jackanapes, popinjay, man-milliner, man of dress, vain fellow

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1. swelladjective

   Synonyms:
   (Slang) fashionable, elegant, distinguished, exquisite

2. swellnoun

   Synonyms:
   swelling, augmentation, increase, protuberance, bulge, elevation, rise

3. swellnoun

   Synonyms:
   exquisite, fop, dandy

4. swellverb

   Synonyms:
   distend, dilate, expand, bloat, puff up, tumefy, intumesce, increase, augment, heave, surge, protuberate, strut, swagger

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "swell":

   houle, swelling, chic, inflate, awesome, owl, super, fancy, great

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How to use swell in a sentence?

1. Larissa Jensen:

   General inflation is not necessarily the story here. We started to see this swell of growth during the pandemic where consumers were willing to trade up to more premium fragrances.

2. Hannah More:

   One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

3. Bhavya Reddy:

   Once he started to recover( from Covid) his face started to swell, when the swelling did not reduce,( doctors) told us to get the injection.

4. Primo Levi:

   For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

5. Barbara Ehrenreich:

   If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.