1. (noun)growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis (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: development, emergence, ripening, maturation, suppuration, increase, ontogenesis, maturement, growth, evolution, developing, outgrowth, ontogeny, increment, exploitation, growing, festering
2. (noun)growth a progression from simpler to more complex forms Synonyms: increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development
3. (noun)increase, increment, growth a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important Synonyms: increase, ontogenesis, gain, growth, emergence, growing, addition, ontogeny, development, maturation, increment, outgrowth, step-up
4. (noun)growth vegetation that has grown Synonyms: increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development
6. (noun)growth (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) Synonyms: increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development
7. (noun)growth something grown or growing Synonyms: increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development
Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'growth'
English Synonyms and Antonyms
1. growth Harvest, from the Anglo-Saxon, signified originally "autumn," and as that is the usual season of gathering ripened crops in Northern lands, the word came to its present meaning of the season of g Synonyms: harvest, crop, harvest-home, ingathering, result, fruit, harvesting, proceeds, return, growth, harvest-tide, produce, yield, harvest-feast, harvest-time, product, harvest-festival, increase, reaping