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Synonyms for swell
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Princeton's WordNet
swell, crestless wavenoun
the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
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crestless wave, sheik, beau, dude, fashion plate, gallant, clotheshorse, dandy, fopAntonyms:
badswellnoun
a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
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crestless wave, sheik, beau, dude, fashion plate, gallant, clotheshorse, dandy, fopAntonyms:
badswellnoun
a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
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crestless wave, sheik, beau, dude, fashion plate, gallant, clotheshorse, dandy, fopAntonyms:
baddandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorseadjective
a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
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fop, boyfriend, tribal sheik, squire, yawl, beau, tribal sheikh, young man, swain, sheik, dude, crestless wave, fashion plate, gallant, clotheshorse, sheikh, fellow, buster, dandyAntonyms:
badbang-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"
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badswellverb
increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
"The music swelled to a crescendo"
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swell up, tumesce, intumesce, well up, puff up, tumefy, wellAntonyms:
badswell, puff upverb
become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
"The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
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swell up, blow up, well up, puff up, puff out, tumefy, puff, intumesce, tumesce, wellAntonyms:
badswell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesceverb
expand abnormally
"The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
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swell up, well up, bubble up, puff up, tumefy, intumesce, tumesce, wellAntonyms:
badwell 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, wellAntonyms:
badwell, swellverb
come up, as of a liquid
"Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up"
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swell up, well up, tumefy, intumesce, tumesce, puff up, wellAntonyms:
badswellverb
cause to become swollen
"The water swells the wood"
Synonyms:
swell up, tumesce, intumesce, well up, puff up, tumefy, wellAntonyms:
bad
Dictionary of English Synonymes
swellverb
Synonyms:
dilate, expand, intumesce, grow larger or bigger (by expansion)swellverb
swellverb
swellverb
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belly, be inflatedswellverb
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strut, look big, put on airs, be puffed upswellverb
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be turgid or bombasticswellverb
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bulge, protuberate, swell outswellverb
swellverb
swellverb
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puff up, make arrogantswellnoun
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swellingswellnoun
swellnoun
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[Colloquial.] fop, coxcomb, dandy, beau, exquisite, jackanapes, popinjay, man-milliner, man of dress, vain fellow
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
swelladjective
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(Slang) fashionable, elegant, distinguished, exquisiteswellnoun
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swelling, augmentation, increase, protuberance, bulge, elevation, riseswellnoun
swellverb
Synonyms:
distend, dilate, expand, bloat, puff up, tumefy, intumesce, increase, augment, heave, surge, protuberate, strut, swagger
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#157 | well | |
#209 | great | |
#985 | increase | |
#1209 | super | |
#2703 | rise | |
#3129 | expand | |
#3400 | enhance | |
#4245 | fellow | |
#4491 | awesome | |
#4532 | extend | |
#6823 | fancy | |
#8538 | dude | |
#10056 | owl | |
#10266 | boyfriend | |
#12096 | chic | |
#14609 | buster | |
#15289 | swelling | |
#16522 | swell | |
#16867 | sheikh | |
#18108 | puff | |
#18866 | beau | |
#24896 | dandy | |
#25307 | squire | |
#26007 | augment | |
#29079 | gallant | |
#30368 | swain | |
#35601 | fop | |
#35617 | sheik | |
#36507 | amplify | |
#38823 | inflate | |
#46777 | heighten | |
#53507 | heave | |
#55038 | aggravate | |
#77563 | enlarges | |
#81962 | houle | |
#84676 | dilate | |
#115981 | toff | |
#134056 | yawl | |
#321810 | distend |
How to use swell in a sentence?
So 'jail, no bail' gave us an opportunity to be arrested, spend the 30 days in jail without paying the money. In so doing, it would help keep the money in our treasury and not swell the treasury of the city and the county, after that, it caught on. By summer, you had kids from all over the country filling the jailhouses up.
It makes my heart swell with pride to do this.
They were hiring all kinds of actors who were down on their luck, they paid them not even minimum wage — below minimum… I didn’t have any lines, but they wanted all kinds of actors… and you worked with all these swell people, like Dean Martin, Jacqueline Bisset and Helen Hayes.
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.
Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
Translations for swell
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- انتفخArabic
- ফোলাBengali
- rebotir, inflar-se, unflar-se, excel·lentCatalan, Valencian
- opuchnout, otéct, zduřet, napuchnout, naběhnout, otéciCzech
- chwyddoWelsh
- svulme, erigere, dønningDanish
- Schwell, schwellen, Dünung, klasseGerman
- ρεστία, αποθαλασσίαGreek
- hincharse, mar de fondo, inflarse, excelenteSpanish
- maininki, turvota, paisua, turvottaa, erinomainen, mahtavaFinnish
- svølla upp, túsna upp, bólgna, svølpast, hovna, trútna, gerast hovin og trútin, týsna uppFaroese
- houle, enfler, gonfler, sensass, chouetteFrench
- sèidScottish Gaelic
- inflarse, incharseGalician
- mooadeeManx
- אבבHebrew
- dagad, duzzadHungarian
- ուռչել, ուռելArmenian
- (mem)[[bengkak]]Indonesian
- intumecarIdo
- mare di fondo, mareggiare, ingrossarsi, far gonfiare, rigonfiamento, flutti, onda lunga, gonfiarsiItalian
- 膨れる, 隆起する, 腫れる, うねり, 起伏, 素晴らしいJapanese
- 부풀다, 붓다, 팽창하다, 부어오르다Korean
- tumor, intumēscō, tumeō, adaestuōLatin
- tūkt, bangasLatvian
- huene, āmai, tōuwha, amotai, whakaahu, tārawa, tai whakarākau, huaroaMāori
- svulme, svelleNorwegian
- opzwellen, aanzwellen, deining, zwellen, mieters, geweldigDutch
- svelle, svulmeNorwegian Nynorsk
- dønningNorwegian
- falowanie, puchnąć, powiększać, pęczniećPolish
- inchar, swell, excelente, ótimoPortuguese
- punkiyQuechua
- unflarRomansh
- val, valuri, se umfla, minunat, super, senzaționalRomanian
- раздува́ться, набуха́ть, увели́чиваться, отличный, превосходный, зыбьRussian
- opuchnúťSlovak
- dyning, svälla, svallSwedish
- kivimbe, vimba, furaSwahili
- บวมThai
- kabarmaTurkish
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