Growth

Noun

 * 1) an increase in size, number, value, or strength
 * 2)  the act of growing, getting bigger or higher
 * 3)  something that grows or has grown
 * 4)  an abnormal mass such as a tumor

Adjectives for Growth
coarse; sturdy; vigorous; spontaneous; miraculous; continuous; ulcerous; wanton; rooted; pendulous; phenomenal; inoperable; luxuriant; ghostly; stunted; monstrous; perpetual; stupendous; morbid; cancerous; unpleasant; intellectual; remarkable;  tropical;  unconscious; parasitic; healthy; native; scanty; incessant; record; evolutionary; puny; unexampled; developmental; unequal; hasty; mushroom; successive (plural); intervening; unbroken; astounding;  endless; vital; rapid; sterile; outward; nutritious; proper; innate; continuous; enormous; plant; malignant; sudden; psychic; unabated; contorted; wayside; vernal; marked; knotty; tremendous; arrested; constant; fateful; lush; spiritual; secular; strong; millennial; bushy; dense.

Verbs for Growth
augment—; check—; control—; foster—; govern—; hinder—; induce—; promote—; stunt—; suppress—; thwart—; retard—; strengthen—; witness—; —commences; — develops; —swallows up.

Synonyms for Growth

 * enlargement, expansion, increase, increment
 * development, maturation
 * vegetation
 * outgrowth, cancer, mass

Antonyms for Growth

 * contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction
 * nondevelopment

Hyponyms for Growth

 * tumor

Derived terms
growth spurt; overgrowth; undergrowth

Thesaurus
accumulation, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, ague, alchemy, amplification, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, appreciation, ascent, asphyxiation, assimilation, assumption, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, augmentation, backache, ballooning, becoming, benign tumor, bleeding, blennorhea, bloating, blossoming, boom, boost, bottoming out, broadening, budding, buildup, burgeoning, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, cachexia, cachexy, callosity, callus, cancer, carcinoma, change, change-over, chill, chills, clump, colic, constipation, conversion, convulsion, cooling off, corn, coughing, crescendo, crisis, crop, cultivation, cyanosis, cyst, depression, development, developmental change, diarrhea, dizziness, downturn, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, edema, elaboration, elevation, emaciation, enlargement, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, excrescence, expanding economy, expansion, explication, extension, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flip-flop, flood, flowering, flux, fungosity, fungus, furtherance, gain, germination, gradual change, greatening, gush, hassock, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, high growth rate, hike, hypertension, improvement, increase, increment, indigestion, inflammation, inflation, insomnia, itching, jaundice, jump, labored breathing, lapse, leap, low, low blood pressure, lumbago, lump, luxuriation, malignant growth, market expansion, maturation, metastatic tumor, mole, morbid growth, mounting, multiplication, nasal discharge, natural development, natural growth, naturalization, nausea, necrosis, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, nonviolent change, nurturing, outgrowth, overgrowth, pain, paralysis, passage, peak, peaking, plantation, planting, procreation, productiveness, progress, progression, proliferation, prosperity, proud flesh, raise, rash, re-formation, recession, reconversion, recovery, reduction, reproduction, resolution, reversal, rheum, ripening, rise, sarcoma, sclerosis, seizure, shift, shock, skin eruption, slowdown, slump, sneezing, snowballing, sore, spasm, spread, sprouting, stand, success, surge, swelling, switch, switch-over, tachycardia, transformation, transit, transition, tuft, tumescence, tumor, turning into, tussock, unfolding, up, upping, upset stomach, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, vegetation, verruca, vertigo, vomiting, wart, wasting, waxing, wen, widening

Etymology
From.

Translations

 * Arabic: تنمية
 * Breton: kresk
 * Bulgarian: растеж
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: גדילה (gdilɑ), צמיחה (tsmiḥɑ)
 * Hungarian: növekedés


 * Italian:
 * Latvian: augšana
 * Lithuanian: augimas
 * Norwegian: vekst
 * Polish: wzrost, rozwój
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàs
 * Slovene: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: stigande, tilltagande,, utvidgning
 * West Frisian: oanwaaks


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew: צמיחה (tsmiḥɑ)
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: vekst
 * Polish: wzrost
 * Portuguese:


 * Scottish Gaelic: fàs
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * West Frisian: oanwaaks


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew: צמחייה (tsimḥiɑ)


 * Slovene: rastje
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,


 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew: גידול (gidul)


 * Polish: narośl
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: svulst,, utväxt