Synonyms for development
Most common
growth progress increase maturation transformation sea-change evolution
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Growth
growth, progress, increase, maturation, elaboration, maturity, growing, outgrowth, ontogeny, enlargement, amplification, ontogenesis
2. Transformation — the process of developing; growth, directed change
transformation, sea-change, conversion, metamorphosis, transmutation, transfiguration, transfigurement rare
3. Evolution
Other
developing, product, progression, exploitation, fruit, harvest, bud, crop, disclosure, explication, net, disentanglement
Definitions
- n. 1
The process of developing; growth, directed change.
The development of this story has been slow.
- n. 2
The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
The organism has reached a crucial stage in its development.
- n. 3
Something which has developed.
up-to-date with new developments in IT
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- developments → growths, progresses, increases, maturations…
Example sentences
- growth Women, then, are only children of a larger growth.
- progress You will progress in proportion to your abilities.
- transformation Transformation is birth and death at the same time.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| development | falling | |
| growth | steady | |
| progress | falling | |
| maturation | steady | |
| elaboration | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- net1, bud1
- 4 letters
- crop1
- 5 letters
- fruit1
- 6 letters
- growth1
- 7 letters
- product2, growing2, harvest2
- 8 letters
- increase2, progress2, maturity4, ontogeny4
- 9 letters
- evolution4, unfolding3, outgrowth2
- 10 letters
- developing4, conversion3, disclosure3, maturation4
- 11 letters
- progression3, enlargement3, elaboration5, unravelling, explication4, ontogenesis
- 12 letters
- exploitation4
- 13 letters
- amplification5, metamorphosis5, transmutation
- 14 letters
- transformation4
- 15 letters
- transfiguration, disentanglement, transfigurement
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (product2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- développement
- Italiano
- sviluppo
- Español
- desarrollo
- Deutsch
- Vermehrung