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Synonyms for swell
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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  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 Antonyms0.0 / 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 WordNet2.0 / 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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  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 database0.0 / 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. Clarence Graham:

    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.

  2. Lee Greenwood:

    It makes my heart swell with pride to do this.

  3. Marion Ross:

    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.

  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. Karl Marx:

    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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