Definition for Development:

• 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 for Development:

• n.

  •
  • developmental,
  • childish,
  • boyhood,
  • babyish,
  • girlhood,
  • childlike,
  • childhood,
  • early,
  • adolescence.
  •
  • reduction,
  • Maturing,
  • increasing,
  • history,
  • advancement,
  • advance,
  • improvement,
  • momentum,
  • reinforcement,
  • spread,
  • elaboration,
  • addition,
  • unfolding,
  • direction,
  • decrease.
  •
  • annex,
  • environment,
  • subdivision,
  • background,
  • context,
  • tract,
  • community,
  • branch,
  • situation,
  • position,
  • conditions,
  • climate.
  •
  • change,
  • Constitutionality,
  • Balkanization,
  • Balkanisation,
  • amnesty,
  • census,
  • progress,
  • containment,
  • boondoggle,
  • Evolvement,
  • constitution.
  •
  • accretion,
  • block,
  • huddle,
  • proliferation,
  • multiplication,
  • center,
  • buildup,
  • complex,
  • megaplex,
  • barracks.
  •
  • amelioration,
  • assemblage,
  • develop,
  • lay,
  • fortification,
  • better,
  • assembly,
  • betterment,
  • melioration,
  • masonry.
  •
  • discovery,
  • happen,
  • coin,
  • contrive,
  • circumstance,
  • occurrence,
  • news,
  • design,
  • creative,
  • devise,
  • breakthrough,
  • creativity,
  • happening,
  • incident,
  • thing,
  • episode,
  • event,
  • occasion.
  •
  • elicitation,
  • determination,
  • causation,
  • recreation,
  • causality.
  •change (noun)
  • transfiguration,
  • variation,
  • mutation,
  • transubstantiation.
  •complexity (noun)
  • complication.
  •creation (noun)
  • establishment,
  • origination,
  • conception,
  • invention.
  •development (noun)
  • maturation,
  • exploitation,
  • developing,
  • ontogeny,
  • growing,
  • ontogenesis,
  • evolution.
  •effect (noun)
  • spin off,
  • follow-up,
  • resultant,
  • aftereffect,
  • materialization,
  • sequent.
  •end (noun)
  • conclusion.
  •expansion (noun)
  • magnification,
  • broadening,
  • crescendo,
  • augmentation,
  • enlargement,
  • widening,
  • amplification,
  • inflation,
  • lengthening,
  • spreading,
  • increase,
  • engorgement,
  • extension,
  • dilation,
  • growth,
  • thickening,
  • fattening,
  • expansion,
  • distension,
  • burgeoning,
  • stretching,
  • increment,
  • swelling.
  •flowering (noun)
  • florescence.
  •growth (noun)
  • ripening,
  • progress,
  • buildup,
  • developing,
  • flowering,
  • progression,
  • boost,
  • increase,
  • Upgrowth,
  • hike,
  • ontogenesis,
  • improvement,
  • reinforcement,
  • spreading,
  • upping,
  • Maturing,
  • Evolvement,
  • augmentation,
  • enlargement,
  • unfolding,
  • evolution,
  • advancement,
  • spread,
  • Evolving,
  • maturation,
  • ontogeny,
  • addition,
  • maturity,
  • ongoing,
  • advance,
  • increasing,
  • expansion.
  •happening, incident (noun)
  • phenomenon,
  • Eventuation,
  • occurrence,
  • issue,
  • conclusion,
  • circumstance,
  • materialization,
  • outcome,
  • result,
  • situation,
  • eventuality,
  • change,
  • upshot,
  • event,
  • denouement.
  •importance (noun)
  • stature.
  •improvement (noun)
  • promotion.
  •maturity (noun)
  • maturescence.
  •phase (noun)
  • phase.
  •preparation (noun)
  • arrangement,
  • composition,
  • fabrication,
  • fostering,
  • formulation,
  • drafting,
  • construction,
  • equipment,
  • preparation,
  • mobilization.
  •production (noun)
  • making,
  • production,
  • creation,
  • building,
  • manufacture,
  • execution,
  • formation,
  • generation.
  •progress (noun)
  • Evolvement.
  •progression (noun)
  • progression.
  •prosperity (noun)
  • boom.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • redevelop,
  • direction,
  • path,
  • childlike,
  • distance,
  • boyhood,
  • fortification,
  • adolescence,
  • reparation,
  • remediation,
  • innovative,
  • buildup,
  • elicitation,
  • developmental,
  • relief,
  • event,
  • infancy,
  • puberty,
  • structural,
  • creativity,
  • enhancement,
  • abatement,
  • perfection,
  • odyssey,
  • innovate,
  • Evolvement,
  • furtherance,
  • tide,
  • causality,
  • trajectory,
  • gain,
  • barracks,
  • unfolding,
  • devise,
  • girlhood,
  • maturity,
  • boost,
  • juvenile,
  • childhood,
  • upbringing,
  • rework,
  • improvement.
  •
  • episode,
  • megaplex,
  • degree,
  • cultivation,
  • recreation,
  • complex,
  • melioration,
  • discovery,
  • originate,
  • masonry,
  • discipline,
  • roofing,
  • life,
  • babyish,
  • minority,
  • subdivision,
  • breakthrough,
  • coin,
  • childish,
  • plot,
  • momentum,
  • accretion,
  • huddle,
  • notch,
  • going,
  • change,
  • amelioration,
  • early,
  • Styling,
  • figure.
  •
  • advance,
  • assemblage,
  • happening,
  • incident,
  • history,
  • center,
  • betterment,
  • contrive,
  • multiplication,
  • lay.
  •
  • proliferation,
  • occurrence,
  • determination,
  • spin off,
  • creative.
  •
  • news,
  • reconstruction,
  • course,
  • action,
  • circumstance,
  • design.
  •
  • block.
  •
  • develop.
  •
  • thing.
  •development
  • gestation.
  •flowering
  • florescence.
  •maintenance
  • Nurturing.
  •shift
  • transition.
  •Other relevant words:
  • state,
  • catastrophe,
  • casting,
  • disseminating,
  • uncovering,
  • explication,
  • course of events,
  • organization,
  • thing,
  • distribution,
  • ballooning,
  • sequela,
  • flowering,
  • rise,
  • causation,
  • peripeteia,
  • drill,
  • drilling,
  • formative,
  • parthenogenesis,
  • statement,
  • build,
  • center,
  • cultural,
  • beautification,
  • stature,
  • headway,
  • slant,
  • reparation,
  • conditioning,
  • cadence,
  • improve,
  • block,
  • flood tide,
  • condition,
  • Contriving,
  • transportation,
  • degree,
  • tuition,
  • argument,
  • burden,
  • helping,
  • adolescence,
  • accruement,
  • corollary,
  • abatement,
  • by-product,
  • support,
  • course,
  • change,
  • hydrocephalus,
  • innovative,
  • outcome,
  • gradual change,
  • episode,
  • odyssey,
  • childbirth,
  • grow,
  • jump,
  • mounting,
  • eversion,
  • alteration,
  • Evolvement,
  • developmental,
  • basic training,
  • advancement,
  • determining,
  • instruction,
  • raise,
  • musical phrase,
  • childlike,
  • sanctioning,
  • puffing,
  • scheme,
  • change over,
  • betterment,
  • aftermath,
  • conclusion,
  • victimisation,
  • genesis,
  • extend,
  • expatiation,
  • subsequent,
  • plot,
  • estate,
  • schooling,
  • relief,
  • ancestral,
  • babyish,
  • produce,
  • early,
  • upturn,
  • attainment,
  • intensification,
  • military training,
  • bud,
  • line,
  • creativity,
  • lump,
  • confinement,
  • refinement,
  • resultant,
  • Evolutional,
  • infancy,
  • genic,
  • gemmation,
  • device,
  • exercise,
  • huddle,
  • sequent,
  • division,
  • effect,
  • Phenomena,
  • eventuality,
  • founding,
  • ornament,
  • enhancement,
  • intermezzo,
  • derivative,
  • outgrowth,
  • education,
  • cytogenetic,
  • plan,
  • reading,
  • Aftergrowth,
  • remediation,
  • phylogeny,
  • complication,
  • stimulation,
  • mellowing,
  • metagenesis,
  • maturity,
  • overgrowth,
  • augment,
  • strain,
  • path,
  • gush,
  • improvement,
  • background,
  • offshoot,
  • idea,
  • trajectory,
  • folderol,
  • isogenesis,
  • childish,
  • Evolving,
  • upsurge,
  • Bloating,
  • rework,
  • shaping,
  • complex,
  • boom,
  • enhance,
  • boost,
  • motif,
  • propagation,
  • puffiness,
  • practises,
  • gemination,
  • sequel,
  • boyhood,
  • pullulation,
  • Forming,
  • dispersal,
  • better,
  • assembly,
  • architectonics,
  • manifestation,
  • size,
  • expansionism,
  • surge,
  • multiplication,
  • dropsy,
  • Resultance,
  • enlarge,
  • fecundation,
  • productiveness,
  • coin,
  • spin off,
  • communicable,
  • existence,
  • genetic,
  • spread,
  • fable,
  • figure,
  • finding,
  • rarefaction,
  • transition,
  • climate,
  • event,
  • opening,
  • gestation,
  • result,
  • blossoming,
  • experimental,
  • obstetrics,
  • occasion,
  • bourdon,
  • action,
  • Turgescence,
  • subject,
  • local color,
  • appreciation,
  • information,
  • contrivance,
  • interlude,
  • dilatation,
  • leap,
  • inspiration,
  • heterogenesis,
  • structural,
  • intumescence,
  • elevation,
  • offspring,
  • archigenesis,
  • position,
  • denouement,
  • hereditary,
  • victimization,
  • learning,
  • girlhood,
  • twist,
  • senescence,
  • gain,
  • Aiding,
  • progress,
  • instance,
  • promotion,
  • encouragement,
  • accouchement,
  • tumescence,
  • come,
  • introduction,
  • get,
  • growing,
  • Unearthing,
  • Assisting,
  • grooming,
  • transmutation,
  • conditions,
  • mutation,
  • Snowballing,
  • Enlarging,
  • cultivate,
  • bettering,
  • procreation,
  • vocational training,
  • Epigenesis,
  • transmissible,
  • Distributing,
  • phylogenesis,
  • issue,
  • appearance,
  • news,
  • excrescence,
  • bringing forth,
  • knowledge,
  • dispensation,
  • puberty,
  • waxing,
  • seasoning,
  • maturation,
  • pay off,
  • movement,
  • community,
  • embellishment,
  • Heterogamy,
  • birth,
  • turgidness,
  • angle,
  • ongoing,
  • notch,
  • educate,
  • Geniture,
  • life,
  • reinforcement,
  • Constitutionality,
  • swell,
  • resolution,
  • perfection,
  • passage,
  • atmosphere,
  • response,
  • Anagnorisis,
  • abiogenesis,
  • progression,
  • activity,
  • upbringing,
  • bridge,
  • stirring,
  • assimilation,
  • megaplex,
  • emerge,
  • upswing,
  • improving,
  • theme,
  • expanding,
  • amnesty,
  • variation,
  • teaching,
  • Balkanization,
  • breakthrough,
  • study,
  • gimmick,
  • rehearsal,
  • step,
  • institution,
  • mythos,
  • switch,
  • breeding,
  • midwifery,
  • accrual,
  • surfacing,
  • ripening,
  • set up,
  • obesity,
  • Dispensing,
  • vocational education,
  • design,
  • discipline,
  • culture,
  • amelioration,
  • tempering,
  • derivation,
  • on-the-job training,
  • tide,
  • acquire,
  • barracks,
  • profit,
  • going,
  • verse,
  • story,
  • genetical,
  • Homogenesis,
  • occurrence,
  • containment,
  • incident,
  • Styling,
  • devising,
  • practice,
  • tract,
  • phrase,
  • masonry,
  • happening,
  • stage,
  • nurture,
  • reproduction,
  • flood,
  • innovate,
  • evil-minded,
  • stimulating,
  • training,
  • parturition,
  • Viperish,
  • turgidity,
  • evolution,
  • strengthening,
  • accession,
  • dissemination,
  • environment,
  • boondoggle,
  • color,
  • section,
  • exploitation,
  • transfiguration,
  • emergence,
  • Maturing,
  • disclosure,
  • maturescence,
  • impregnation,
  • situation,
  • characterization,
  • period,
  • sanction,
  • reduction,
  • shape,
  • rearing,
  • Dispersing,
  • wake,
  • evolutionary,
  • aftereffect,
  • stanza,
  • festering,
  • end,
  • unfolding,
  • etymology,
  • part,
  • accomplishment,
  • ascent,
  • product,
  • spontaneous generation,
  • assemblage,
  • harvest,
  • transubstantiation,
  • momentum,
  • orthogenesis,
  • shift,
  • crop,
  • furtherance,
  • function,
  • metamorphosis,
  • suppuration,
  • consequent,
  • monogenesis,
  • amplify,
  • uptrend,
  • follow-up,
  • moulding,
  • structure,
  • continuity,
  • explicate,
  • fate,
  • recognition,
  • Ampliation,
  • precinct,
  • sprouting,
  • aggrandizement,
  • cultivation,
  • pandiculation,
  • delivery,
  • ramification,
  • upping,
  • using,
  • Histogenesis,
  • mushrooming,
  • coda,
  • variant,
  • biogenesis,
  • Pangenesis,
  • flourishing,
  • albumen,
  • consideration,
  • recreation,
  • erection,
  • phenomenon,
  • formulate,
  • tumefaction,
  • evolutive,
  • devise,
  • evolve,
  • melioration,
  • turning point,
  • distance,
  • topic,
  • upshot,
  • merogenesis,
  • Unfoldment,
  • legacy,
  • hike,
  • Upgrowth,
  • addition,
  • Boosting,
  • project,
  • edema,
  • falling action,
  • accumulation,
  • sea change,
  • childhood,
  • consequence,
  • Sloyd,
  • travail,
  • breaking,
  • fortification,
  • tumor,
  • metastasis,
  • distillate,
  • minority,
  • raising,
  • mood,
  • Abetting,
  • reconstruction,
  • increasing,
  • ontogeny,
  • after-effect,
  • break,
  • modification,
  • history,
  • assumption,
  • measure,
  • up,
  • Entelechy,
  • dispersion,
  • Anacrusis,
  • developing,
  • accretion,
  • backwash,
  • Ritornello,
  • bourgeoning,
  • roofing,
  • florescence,
  • digenesis,
  • causality,
  • circumstance,
  • discovery,
  • branch,
  • change of state,
  • proliferating,
  • supplement,
  • Organizing,
  • phase,
  • Ascertaining,
  • forging,
  • flourish,
  • aging,
  • malicious,
  • output,
  • budding,
  • qualification,
  • decrease,
  • architecture,
  • sequence,
  • child,
  • prolongation,
  • advance,
  • access,
  • exposition,
  • buildup,
  • subdivision,
  • logical outcome,
  • contagious,
  • precipitate,
  • annex,
  • lay,
  • refrain,
  • Nurturing,
  • diastole,
  • Progeneration,
  • proliferation,
  • census,
  • originate,
  • readying,
  • conversion,
  • direction,
  • expand,
  • tone,
  • tailpiece,
  • Producing,
  • fertilization,
  • vegetation,
  • eumerogenesis,
  • call in,
  • Eventuation,
  • Manufacturing,
  • Extending,
  • Balkanisation,
  • apprenticeship,
  • rising action,
  • contrive,
  • develop,
  • maturement,
  • fruit,
  • inspiriting,
  • context,
  • labor,
  • constitution,
  • working out,
  • redevelop,
  • transformation,
  • bringing up,
  • full growth,
  • germination,
  • inversion,
  • blastogenesis,
  • subplot,
  • falderal,
  • protraction,
  • crystallization,
  • juvenile,
  • process,
  • creative,
  • determination,
  • Tutti,
  • naturalization,
  • chorus,
  • backing,
  • housebreaking,
  • materialization,
  • Dispansion,
  • elicitation,
  • ontogenesis,
  • evolutionary theory,
  • aggravation,
  • elaboration,
  • happen.

Antonyms for Development:

• n.

  • growth
    lessening, stagnation, withdrawal, stoppage, decline, halt, retrogression, retreat, decrease, shrinkage, reduction.
  • happening, incident
    origin, cause, source.
  • Other antonyms:
    nondevelopment, declining, consideration, dying, regress, impetus, ground, ignorance, antecedent, end, lapse, instigation, illiteracy, wilting, foundation, withering, basis, backslide, relapse, incentive, demise, inspiration, expiration, devaluation, source, weakening, root, mother, decay, stimulus, falling, expiry, Shriveling, spring, exit, waning, base, determinant, expiring, factor, death, fading, groundwork, ebbing, origin, decease.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    backslide, backwardness, base, basis, consideration, creation, crisis, death, decay, decease, declining, decrease, demise, depreciation, determinant, devaluation, developing, downturn, dying, ebbing, end, establishment, exit, expiration, expiring, expiry, factor, fading, fall, falling, foundation, ground, groundwork, impetus, incentive, information, inspiration, instigation, lapse, lessening, origin, recession, reduction, regress, relapse, retardation, retreat, root, shrinkage, source, spring, stagnation, stasis, stimulus, stoppage, waning, weakening, wilting, withdrawal, withering, Decaying, Shriveling, Crises.