Definition for Swell:

• become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; " The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"

Synonyms for Swell:

• adj.

  •acceptable (adjective)
  • okay.
  •agreeable (adjective)
  • dandy.
  •fashionable (adjective)
  • stylish.
  •swell (adjective)
  • fine,
  • grand,
  • keen,
  • neat,
  • nifty,
  • stylish.

• n.

  •
  • surge.
  •
  • go up.
  •
  • rise.
  •
  • billow.
  •
  • balloon,
  • bulge.
  •fashion plate (noun)
  • clotheshorse.
  •first-rate (noun)
  • fine.
  •fop (noun)
  • beau,
  • beauty,
  • blade,
  • blood,
  • cavalier,
  • clotheshorse,
  • dandy,
  • dude,
  • fop,
  • gallant,
  • peacock,
  • socialite.
  •swell (noun)
  • beau,
  • billow,
  • bully,
  • clotheshorse,
  • dandy,
  • dude,
  • fop,
  • gallant,
  • great,
  • keen,
  • neat,
  • nifty,
  • peachy,
  • puff up,
  • rise,
  • slap-up,
  • surge,
  • undulation,
  • wave.

• v.

  •amplify (verb)
  • develop,
  • inflate,
  • lengthen,
  • magnify,
  • stretch,
  • widen.
  •expand (verb)
  • amplify,
  • augment,
  • broaden,
  • burgeon,
  • develop,
  • dilate,
  • distend,
  • engorge,
  • enlarge,
  • expand,
  • extend,
  • fatten,
  • grow,
  • increase,
  • increment,
  • inflate,
  • lengthen,
  • magnify,
  • spread,
  • stretch,
  • thicken,
  • widen.
  •social (verb)
  • puff up.
  •swell (verb)
  • amplify,
  • augment,
  • balloon,
  • bloat,
  • bulge,
  • dilate,
  • distend,
  • enlarge,
  • expand,
  • extend,
  • fatten,
  • fill out,
  • grow,
  • increase,
  • mount,
  • puff,
  • puff up.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • ripping,
  • surge,
  • wave.
  •
  • wax.
  •
  • fine,
  • mount.
  •
  • glorious,
  • splendid.
  •
  • go up,
  • hot,
  • rise.
  •billow
  • puff up.
  •expand
  • expand.
  •nobleman
  • aristocrat.
  •open up
  • widen.
  •Other relevant words:
  • aristocrat,
  • balloon,
  • billow,
  • bloat,
  • blow up,
  • blue blood,
  • brahman,
  • brahmin,
  • bulge,
  • bully,
  • carpet knight,
  • coxcomb,
  • exquisite,
  • fill out,
  • fine,
  • glorious,
  • go up,
  • grand,
  • grandiose,
  • great,
  • heave,
  • hot,
  • huff,
  • jackanapes,
  • kayo,
  • keen,
  • knob,
  • macaroni,
  • magnificent,
  • mound,
  • mount,
  • neat,
  • nifty,
  • okay,
  • patrician,
  • peachy,
  • popinjay,
  • puff,
  • puff up,
  • puppy,
  • put on airs,
  • ripping,
  • rise,
  • roll,
  • rum,
  • slap-up,
  • solid,
  • splendid,
  • sport,
  • stylish,
  • superb,
  • surge,
  • swank,
  • swelling,
  • thoroughbred,
  • toss,
  • undulate,
  • undulation,
  • wave,
  • wax,
  • Jack-a-dandy,
  • Nobby,
  • Crackajack,
  • put on,
  • jam-up,
  • give oneself airs,
  • ace-high,
  • fine gentleman,
  • put up a front,
  • bang-up,
  • but good,
  • fine and dandy,
  • look big,
  • put on side,
  • upper-cruster.

Antonyms for Swell:

• adj.

  • acceptable
    disagreeable, disturbing, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unwelcome.
  • agreeable
    discordant, distasteful, harsh, hateful, mean, nasty, offensive, unpleasant.
  • amiable
    crabby, gloomy, irritable, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly.
  • swell
    bad, horrible, shabby.
  • Other antonyms:
    atrocious, awful, bad, cheesy, disheveled, dowdy, execrable, frowsy, graceless, inelegant, inferior, lousy, low-grade, mediocre, messy, middling, mussy, out, outmoded, pathetic, poor, rotten, rumpled, second-rate, shabby, sleazy, sloppy, slovenly, styleless, substandard, tacky, tasteless, terrible, trashy, unattractive, unbecoming, uncool, unfashionable, unkempt, unsatisfactory, unstylish, untidy, vile, wretched, wrinkled, Unhandsome.

• n.

  • swell
    decline, decrease.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    abate, abbreviate, abridge, atrocious, awful, bad, basin, bowl, cavity, cheesy, common, compress, concave, concavity, concentrate, condense, constrict, contract, crater, curtail, cut back, de-escalate, decline, decrease, deflate, dent, depression, diminish, dimple, dint, dip, disheveled, dowdy, drop, dull, dwindle, ebb, fall, frowsy, furrow, go down, gouge, graceless, groove, grotty, hollow, horrible, impression, indent, indentation, indenture, inelegant, inferior, lessen, lose, lousy, low-grade, lower, mediocre, messy, middling, minify, mussy, ordinary, out, outmoded, pathetic, pit, plebeian, pocket, poor, quieten, recede, recess, reduce, retrench, rotten, rumpled, second-rate, seedy, shabby, shorten, shrink, sleazy, sloppy, slovenly, slump, sordid, styleless, substandard, subtract, tacky, tasteless, tatty, terrible, trashy, trench, trough, unattractive, unbecoming, uncool, unfashionable, unimpressive, unkempt, unsatisfactory, unstylish, untidy, valley, vile, vulgar, wane, well, wretched, wrinkled, Unhandsome, run down, downsize, hole, Unmodish, stupid, unchic, subtract from, second-class, become smaller.

• v.

  • abound
    deficient, fail, lack, need, short, want.
  • accumulate
    disperse, dissipate, dwindle, lessen, lose, spend, squander, waste.
  • amplify
    abridge, condense, curtail, reduce, shorten, summarize.
  • swell
    compress, concentrate, contract, shrink.