Development

Noun

 * 1)  The process of developing; growth, directed change
 * 2)  The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
 * 3)  Something which has developed
 * 4)  A real estate development
 * 5)  The application of new ideas to practical problems (''cf. research)
 * 6)  The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it
 * 7)  The second section of a piece of music in sonata form.

Adjectives for Development
gradual; belated; deliberate; hirsute; artistic; cultural; muscular; social; economic; modern; mental; physical; noble; high; deft; majestic; effective; logical; imposing; egregious; intellectual; secluded; surface; inferred; diversified; further; general; continuous; eventual; recent; poetic; subsequent; surprising; coherent; architectural; vindictive; enriching; compensatory; scientific; progressive; basic; disproportionate; laudable; harmonic; individual; impartial; strained; wholesome; previous; promising; technical; organic; moral; multifarious; psychosexual; magnificent; glorious; institutional; consequent; thematic; peculiar; spectacular; recent; liturgical; safety; empiric; aesthetic; intensive; industrial; defective; external; remoter; unique; devious;  expansive; legitimate; profligate; multiple (plural); arrested; extraordinary; astonishing; startling; amazing; rapid; meteoric; long; tedious; arduous;  extravagant; irrational;  intricate; vast; extensive; slow; evolutionary;

Verbs for Development
arrest—; attain—; await—; check—; contribute to—; encourage—; enfeeble—; evaluate—; foresee—;  forestall—;  foster—; hail—; hamper—; hasten—; hinder—; im¬pair—; keep abreast of—; paralyze—; re¬tard—; review—; revolutionize—; rush—; speed—;  spur—;   stimulate—;  stunt—; trace—; undergo—; visualize—; witness—; —germinates from; —proceeds; —surges forward.

Synonyms for Development
project, expansion, growth, improvement, subdivision, maturity, evolution, disclosure, unfolding.

Antonyms for Development
degeneration, decline, lack of progress.

Related terms

 * career development
 * community development
 * arrested development
 * real estate development

Thesaurus
accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, action, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, aging, amplification, anacrusis, anagnorisis, angle, appreciation, apprenticeship, archigenesis, architectonics, architecture, argument, ascent, atmosphere, augmentation, background, ballooning, basic training, bass passage, beautification, biogenesis, birth, blastogenesis, bloating, blossoming, boom, boost, bourdon, breaking, breeding, bridge, broadening, budding, buildup, burden, burgeoning, by-product, cadence, catastrophe, characterization, chorus, circumstance, coda, color, complication, condition, conditioning, consequence, consequent, continuity, contrivance, corollary, crescendo, cultivation, denouement, derivation, derivative, design, developmental change, device, digenesis, dilation, discipline, distillate, division, drill, drilling, edema, effect, elaboration, elevation, embellishment, enlargement, epigenesis, episode, eumerogenesis, event, eventuality, eventuation, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, excrescence, exercise, expansion, expatiation, explication, exposition, extension, fable, falling action, fetching-up, figure, flood, flowering, folderol, fostering, fruit, furtherance, gain, gemmation, generation, genesis, germination, gimmick, gradual change, greatening, grooming, growth, gush, happening, harmonic close, harvest, heterogenesis, hike, histogenesis, homogenesis, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, incident, increase, increment, inflation, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, isogenesis, issue, jump, leap, legacy, line, local color, logical outcome, manual training, maturation, maturescence, maturing, maturity, measure, mellowing, merogenesis, metagenesis, military training, monogenesis, mood, motif, mounting, movement, multiplication, musical phrase, musical sentence, mythos, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, nurture, nurturing, occurrence, offshoot, offspring, on-the-job training, ongoing, ornament, orthogenesis, outcome, outgrowth, overgrowth, pangenesis, part, parthenogenesis, passage, perfection, period, peripeteia, phenomenon, phrase, plan, plot, practice, precipitate, preparation, procreation, product, productiveness, progress, progression, proliferation, pullulation, raise, raising, readying, rearing, recognition, refinement, refrain, rehearsal, reproduction, resolution, response, result, resultant, ripening, rise, rising action, ritornello, scheme, seasoning, secondary plot, section, senescence, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, situation, slant, sloyd, snowballing, spontaneous generation, spread, sprouting, stanza, statement, story, strain, structure, subject, subplot, surge, swelling, switch, tailpiece, tempering, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, training, tumescence, tutti, tutti passage, twist, unfolding, up, upbringing, upgrowth, upping, upshot, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, variation, vegetation, verse, vocational education, vocational training, waxing, widening, working-out

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Azeri: inkişaf
 * Bulgarian:, напредък
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 開發, 开发
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: disvolvado
 * Finnish: kehitys, kehittyminen
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: התפתחות
 * Italian: ,


 * Kamba:
 * Kikuyu:
 * Kurdish:
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian:, развиток
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: dezvoltare
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: desarrollo
 * Swahili: khuendelea,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పెరుగుదల (perugudala)
 * Turkish: ilerleme, kalkınma, gelişme, gelişim


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: התפתחות
 * Italian:


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: udbygning, udvidelse
 * Hebrew: פיתוח (pituakh)


 * Swedish: utbyggnad


 * Bulgarian: усъвършенстване
 * Czech:
 * Danish:


 * Hebrew: פיתוח
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: