Synonyms of the word

swell

• v. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
• v. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
• v. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
• v. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
• v. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
• v. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
• v. To protuberate; to bulge out.
• n. The act of swelling.
• n. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
• n. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
• n. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
• n. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
• n. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
• n. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
• n. (informal, dated) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.
• n. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
• adj. (Canada, US, informal, slang) Excellent.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

arise

• v. To come up from a lower to a higher position.
• v. To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
• v. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin…

bang-up

• adj. Especially good; wonderful; superb.

beau

• n. (dated) A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.
• n. (dated) A male lover; a boyfriend.
• n. A male escort.

behave

• v. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
• v. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
• v. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.

bully

• n. A person who is cruel to others, especially those who are weaker or have less power.
• n. A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an…
• n. A hired thug.
• n. A prostitute’s minder; a pimp.
• n. (uncountable) Bully beef.
• n. (obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
• n. The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
• n. A small freshwater fish.
• n. (obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade.
• n. (dialectal) A companion; mate. (male or female).
• n. (obsolete) darling, sweetheart. (male or female).
• v. (transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
• v. (transitive) To act aggressively towards.
• adj. (US, slang) Very good; excellent.
• adj. (slang) Jovial and blustering; dashing.
• interj. (often followed by for) Well done!

clotheshorse

• n. A frame on which laundry is hung to dry.
• n. (by extension) A person excessively concerned with the appearance of their clothing.

corking

• v. present participle of cork.
• adj. (informal) splendid, enjoyable, bang-up.
• n. The formation of white, cork-like striations on a jalapeño pepper.

cracking

• n. (chemistry) The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce…
• n. The formation of cracks on a surface.
• n. The production of a crack sound.
• adj. (colloquial) Great.
• adj. (colloquial) Enjoyable.
• adv. (Britain) Very, usually associated with praise.
• v. present participle of crack.

crescendo

• n. (music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on…
• n. (figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
• n. (figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase.
• v. To increase in intensity, to reach or head for a crescendo.

dandy

• adj. Like a dandy, foppish.
• adj. Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
• adj. Excellent; first-rate.
• n. A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.
• n. (Britain, nautical) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
• n. A dandy roller.

develop

• v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
• v. (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
• v. (transitive) To create.
• v. (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
• v. (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
• v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
• v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving…
• v. (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations…

do

• v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
• v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
• v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
• v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
• v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• v. To cook.
• v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
• v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
• v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
• v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
• v. (transitive) To take drugs.
• v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
• n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
• n. (informal) A hairdo.
• n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
• n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
• n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
• n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
• adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

dude

• n. (colloquial) A man, generally a younger man.
• n. (colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning…
• n. An inexperienced cowboy.
• n. (slang) A tourist.
• n. (archaic) A man who is very concerned about his dress and appearance; a dandy, a fop.
• interj. (slang) A term of address, usually for a man, conveying awe, excitement, surprise, etc.
• v. To address someone as dude.
• v. To take a vacation in a dude ranch.
• v. (US) Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes.

elevation

• n. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons,…
• n. The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
• n. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
• n. The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between…
• n. The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
• n. The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle…
• n. (architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the…
• n. (Christianity) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.

expand

• v. (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
• v. (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
• v. (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
• v. (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same…
• v. (intransitive) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
• v. (intransitive) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.
• v. (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
• v. (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.

fop

• n. A vain man; a dandy.

gallant

• adj. Brave, valiant.
• adj. Honorable.
• adj. Grand, noble.
• adj. (obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
• adj. Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
• n. (dated) Fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.
• n. One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
• n. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
• n. (nautical) topgallant.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.

good

• adj. (of people).
• adj. (of capabilities).
• adj. (of properties and qualities).
• adj. (colloquial) With "and", extremely.
• adj. Holy (especially when capitalized).
• adj. (of quantities).
• interj. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
• adv. (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
• n. (uncountable) The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and…
• n. (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
• n. (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes…
• n. (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make good; turn to good; improve.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make improvements or repairs.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To benefit; gain.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
• v. (reflexive, now chiefly dialectal) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

great

• adj. Very big, large scale.
• adj. Very good.
• adj. Important.
• adj. Title referring to an important leader.
• adj. Superior; admirable; commanding; applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
• adj. Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful;…
• adj. (obsolete) Pregnant; large with young.
• adj. More than ordinary in degree; very considerable.
• adj. [qualifying nouns of family relationship] Involving more generations than the word qualified implies.…
• adj. (obsolete, except with 'friend' and similar words such as 'mate','buddy') Intimate; familiar.
• interj. Expression of gladness and content about something.
• interj. sarcastic inversion thereof.
• n. A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
• n. (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
• adv. very well (in a very satisfactory manner).

groovy

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.
• adj. (dated) Set in one's ways.
• adj. (dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable.
• n. (dated, slang) A trendy and fashionable person.

grow

• v. (ergative) To become bigger.
• v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
• v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
• v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

increase

• v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
• v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
• v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
• n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
• n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

intumesce

• v. To swell or enlarge (abnormally).
• v. To bubble up (as the result of heating).

keen

• adj. Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness…
• adj. Fierce, intense, vehement.
• adj. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
• adj. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
• adj. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
• adj. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
• adj. (Britain) Extremely low as to be competitive.
• adj. (US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
• adj. (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
• v. (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.
• n. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
• v. (intransitive) To utter a keen.
• v. (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
• v. (transitive) To mourn.

man

• n. An adult male human.
• n. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
• n. A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.).
• n. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.).
• n. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
• n. (obsolete) A sentient being, whether human or supernatural.
• n. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity,…
• n. (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
• n. A husband.
• n. A lover; a boyfriend.
• n. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used…
• n. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last…
• n. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
• n. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
• n. An adult male servant. (historical) A vassal. A subject.
• n. A piece or token used in board games such as chess.
• n. (MLE, slang) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.
• n. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience,…
• n. A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males.
• adj. Only used in man enough.
• interj. Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing…
• v. (transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
• v. (transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).
• v. (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence…

neat

• n. (archaic) A bull or cow.
• n. (archaic) Cattle collectively.
• adj. Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
• adj. Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
• adj. (chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
• adj. (archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
• adj. Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
• adj. Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
• adj. (colloquial) Good, excellent, desirable.
• n. (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear…

nifty

• adj. (colloquial) Good, smart; a general term for anything that is good, useful or beneficial.

originate

• v. (transitive) To cause to be, to bring into existence; to produce, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with).

peachy

• adj. Resembling a peach, peach-like.
• adj. (slang) Very good, excellent.

rise

• v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
• v. To begin; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
• v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
• v. To come; to offer itself.
• v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
• n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
• n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
• n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
• n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
• n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
• n. (informal) An angry reaction.
• n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

sheik

• n. The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.
• n. An Islamic religious cleric; the leader of an Islamic religious order.
• n. (some Arab Gulf countries) An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent…
• n. (1920s) A romantic lover. (from the 1921 film The Sheikh).
• n. (slang) An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.
• n. An honorific for specialists in spirituality.

slap-up

• adj. (informal) Excellent, first-class.

smashing

• adj. Serving to smash (something).
• adj. (originally US, now Britain) Wonderful, very good or impressive.
• n. Gerund: The action of the verb to smash.
• v. present participle of smash.

surface

• n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
• n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
• n. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom)…
• n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the…
• v. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
• v. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
• v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
• v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
• v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.

tumefy

• v. to cause to swell.

tumesce

• v. (intransitive) To become tumescent; to expand or inflate.

uprise

• v. (archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
• v. (archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination.
• v. To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
• n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

wave

• v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
• v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
• v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
• v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
• n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
• n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
• n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
• n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
• n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
• v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

well

• adv. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
• adv. (manner) Completely, fully.
• adv. (degree) To a significant degree.
• adv. (degree, Britain, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
• adv. In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
• adj. In good health.
• adj. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.
• interj. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
• interj. An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.
• interj. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
• interj. Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause.
• interj. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting.
• n. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
• n. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
• n. A small depression suitable for holding liquid, or other objects.
• n. (figuratively) A source of supply.
• n. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through…
• n. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
• n. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having…
• n. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out…
• n. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
• n. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
• n. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
• n. A well drink.
• n. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
• n. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test…
• v. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
• v. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.