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Synonyms for development
dɪˈvɛl əp məntde·vel·op·ment

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. development

    Education (Latin educere, to lead or draw out) is the systematic development and cultivation of the mind and other natural powers. "Education is the harmonious development of all our faculties. It begins in the nursery, and goes on at school, but does not end there. It continues through life, whether we will or not.... 'Every person,' says Gibbon, 'has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.'" John Lubbock The Use of Life ch. vii, p. 111. [Macmillan & Co. '94.] Instruction, the impartation of knowledge by others (Latin instruere, to build in or into) is but a part of education, often the smallest part. Teaching is the more familiar and less formal word for instruction. Training refers not merely to the impartation of knowledge, but to the exercising of one in actions with the design to form habits. Discipline is systematic and rigorous training, with the idea of subjection to authority and perhaps of punishment. Tuition is the technical term for teaching as the business of an instructor or as in the routine of a school; tuition is narrower than teaching, not, like the latter word, including training. Study is emphatically what one does for himself. We speak of the teaching, training, or discipline, but not of the education or tuition of a dog or a horse. Breeding and nurture include teaching and training, especially as directed by and dependent upon home life and personal association; breeding having reference largely to manners with such qualities as are deemed distinctively characteristic of high birth; nurture (literally nourishing) having more direct reference to moral qualities, not overlooking the physical and mental. Knowledge and learning tell nothing of mental development apart from the capacity to acquire and remember, and nothing whatever of that moral development which is included in education in its fullest and noblest sense; learning, too, may be acquired by one's unaided industry, but any full education must be the result in great part of instruction, training, and personal association. Study is emphatically what one does for himself, and in which instruction and tuition can only point the way, encourage the student to advance, and remove obstacles; vigorous, persevering study is one of the best elements of training. Study is also used in the sense of the thing studied, a subject to be mastered by study, a studious pursuit. Compare KNOWLEDGE; REFINEMENT; WISDOM.

    Compare synonyms for IGNORANT.

    Synonyms:
    breeding, cultivation, culture, discipline, education, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, reading, schooling, study, teaching, training, tuition

    Antonyms:
    ignorance, illiteracy

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. development

    Synonyms:
    outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud

    Antonyms:
    cause, origin, source, principal

Princeton's WordNet3.1 / 8 votes

  1. developmentnoun

    act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining

    "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development"

    Synonyms:
    ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

    Antonyms:
    nondevelopment

  2. development, evolutionnoun

    a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

    "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"

    Synonyms:
    phylogenesis, ontogenesis, growth, developing, phylogeny, growing, organic evolution, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

    Antonyms:
    nondevelopment

  3. growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesisnoun

    (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

    "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"

    Synonyms:
    emergence, ripening, maturation, suppuration, increase, ontogenesis, maturement, growth, evolution, developing, outgrowth, ontogeny, increment, exploitation, growing, festering

    Antonyms:
    nondevelopment

  4. developmentnoun

    a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation

    "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!"

    Synonyms:
    ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

    Antonyms:
    nondevelopment

  5. exploitation, developmentnoun

    the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful

    "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits"

    Synonyms:
    ontogenesis, maturation, using, growth, developing, victimization, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, victimisation, evolution

    Antonyms:
    nondevelopment

  6. developmentnoun

    a district that has been developed to serve some purpose

    "such land is practical for small park developments"

    Synonyms:
    ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

    Antonyms:
    nondevelopment

  7. developmentnoun

    a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

    "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen"

    Synonyms:
    ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

    Antonyms:
    nondevelopment

  8. development, developingnoun

    processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

    "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"

    Synonyms:
    ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

    Antonyms:
    nondevelopment

  9. developmentnoun

    (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated

    Synonyms:
    ontogenesis, growth, developing, growing, exploitation, ontogeny, maturation, evolution

    Antonyms:
    nondevelopment

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. developmentnoun

    Synonyms:
    unfolding, disclosure, exhibition, unravelling, disentanglement

  2. developmentnoun

    Synonyms:
    growth, increase, progress to maturity

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. developmentnoun

    Synonyms:
    unfoldment, progression, evolution, hypertrophy (excessive development)

    Antonyms:
    atrophy, undevelopment, abortion, embryo

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  1. Anthony Fauci:

    While in development, it's important to understand we won't have a vaccine this year or even in the next few years, although we may be able to have a clinical trial start this calendar year.

  2. Bill Gates:

    I'm pleased to have been an early backer of Bill Gross's novel solar concentration technology, its capacity to achieve the high temperatures required for these processes is a promising development in the quest to one day replace fossil fuel.

  3. Chief Executive Henrik Ehrnrooth:

    If you look at a Tier 1 city the market development continues to be positive. If you on the other hand look at some of the lower tier cities we see a clearly more challenging situation and we can see that our customers have challenges in getting financing and also inventory levels are at quite a high level in some of the cities, the market remains uncertain and in some places very challenging.

  4. David Oxley:

    It would be negligent not to take the inflationary development into account.

  5. Jochem Heizmann:

    If we look to the general growth situation, it's still tremendous, big growth, these are still cities with millions of inhabitants but in a different development stage.


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