1. development
noun. ['dɪˈvɛləpmənt'] a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage).
Synonyms
- deepening
- growth
- unfolding
- assibilation
- flowering
- process
- physical process
Antonyms
- unemployment
- birth
- increase
- acceleration
Etymology
- -ment (English)
- -amentum (Latin)
- develop (English)
- développer (French)
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- underdevelopment
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2. development
noun. ['dɪˈvɛləpmənt'] act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining.
Synonyms
- improvement
- advancement
- broadening
- elaboration
- product development
- working out
Antonyms
- ovulation
- anabolism
- undress
- decrease
Etymology
- -ment (English)
- -amentum (Latin)
- develop (English)
- développer (French)
3. development
noun. ['dɪˈvɛləpmənt'] (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.
Synonyms
- cainogenesis
- gametogenesis
- organic process
- life cycle
- maturation
- habit
- palingenesis
- psychosexual development
- proliferation
- vegetation
- caenogenesis
- cohesion
- florescence
- apposition
- angiogenesis
- virilisation
- psychogenesis
- germination
- suppression
- leafing
- odontiasis
- cytogeny
- masculinization
- virilization
- sprouting
- neurogenesis
- masculinisation
- infructescence
- fructification
- myelinization
- recapitulation
- teething
- juvenescence
- gastrulation
- growth
- biological process
- kainogenesis
- rooting
- myelinisation
- ontogenesis
- auxesis
- cenogenesis
- foliation
- psychomotor development
- cultivation
- amelogenesis
- inflorescence
- cytogenesis
- flowering
- ontogeny
- anthesis
- efflorescence
- teratogenesis
- culture
- growing
- dentition
- blossoming
- intussusception
- kenogenesis
Antonyms
- nondevelopment
- palingenesis
- deceleration
- death
Etymology
- -ment (English)
- -amentum (Latin)
- develop (English)
- développer (French)
4. development
noun. ['dɪˈvɛləpmənt'] a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation.
Synonyms
- twist
- complication
- ramification
- phenomenon
- modification
- change
- turn
- turn of events
Antonyms
- ending
- fall
- imperfection
- conserve
Etymology
- -ment (English)
- -amentum (Latin)
- develop (English)
- développer (French)
5. development
noun. ['dɪˈvɛləpmənt'] a district that has been developed to serve some purpose.
Synonyms
- housing development
- territory
- territorial dominion
- district
- housing estate
Antonyms
- abstain
- nonfunctional
- functional
- uselessness
Etymology
- -ment (English)
- -amentum (Latin)
- develop (English)
- développer (French)
6. development
noun. ['dɪˈvɛləpmənt'] the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful.
Synonyms
- overuse
- commercialization
- utilisation
- unitisation
- usage
- overexploitation
- unitization
- overutilisation
- utilization
- capitalization
- capitalisation
- land development
- exercise
- exploitation
- water program
- water development
- electrification
- water project
- employment
- commercialisation
- overutilization
Antonyms
- decrement
- nonproliferation
- fauna
- incoherence
Etymology
- -ment (English)
- -amentum (Latin)
- develop (English)
- développer (French)
7. land
noun. ['ˈlænd'] the land on which real estate is located.
Synonyms
- real estate
- immovable
- no man's land
- farmstead
- homestead
- realty
Antonyms
- activeness
- utopia
- perfection
- homozygosity
Etymology
- land (Middle English (1100-1500))
8. land
noun. ['ˈlænd'] material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use).
Synonyms
- turf
- badlands
- ploughland
- tilth
- tillage
- ground
- object
- sod
- polder
- farmland
- scablands
- plowland
- bottom
- coastland
- rangeland
- tilled land
- physical object
- sward
- bottomland
- overburden
- soil
- cultivated land
- wetland
- greensward
Antonyms
- motion
- inaction
- dystopia
- heterozygosity
Etymology
- land (Middle English (1100-1500))
9. land
verb. ['ˈlænd'] reach or come to rest.
Synonyms
- alight
- belly-land
- beach
- port
- disembark
- debark
- arrive
- undershoot
- set down
- light
- perch
- get
- touch down
- come
- force-land
Antonyms
- leave
- unpersuasiveness
- powerless
- uninterestingness
Etymology
- land (Middle English (1100-1500))
10. land
noun. ['ˈlænd'] territory over which rule or control is exercised.
Synonyms
- dukedom
- country
- princedom
- barony
- region
- kingdom
- realm
- grand duchy
- emirate
- domain
- archduchy
- principality
- fiefdom
- sheikhdom
- imperium
- duchy
- demesne
- empire
- suzerainty
- state
- sheikdom
- viscounty
- earldom
Antonyms
- urban area
- imperfection
- unskillfulness
- nonexistence
Etymology
- land (Middle English (1100-1500))