| nurture | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. nurture, raising, rearing | the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child. |
| ~ upbringing | properties acquired during a person's formative years. |
| n. (act) | 2. breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing | helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community.; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" |
| ~ acculturation, enculturation, socialisation, socialization | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture.; "the socialization of children to the norms of their culture" |
| v. (communication) | 3. foster, nurture | help develop, help grow.; "nurture his talents" |
| ~ patronage, keep going, patronise, patronize, support | be a regular customer or client of.; "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could" |
| ~ encourage | inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to. |
| ~ serve well, serve | promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to.; "Art serves commerce"; "Their interests are served"; "The lake serves recreation"; "The President's wisdom has served the country well" |
| v. (social) | 4. bring up, nurture, parent, raise, rear | bring up.; "raise a family"; "bring up children" |
| ~ fledge | feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight. |
| ~ cradle | bring up from infancy. |
| ~ grow up | become an adult. |
| ~ foster | bring up under fosterage; of children. |
| v. (consumption) | 5. nourish, nurture, sustain | provide with nourishment.; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children" |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
| ~ carry | be able to feed.; "This land will carry ten cows to the acre" |
| enhance | | |
| v. (change) | 1. enhance, heighten, raise | increase.; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" |
| ~ compound, deepen, intensify, heighten | make more intense, stronger, or more marked.; "The efforts were intensified"; "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" |
| ~ potentiate | increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon).; "potentiate the drug" |
| v. (change) | 2. enhance | make better or more attractive.; "This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat" |
| ~ ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better | to make better.; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" |
| ~ follow up | increase the effectiveness or success of by further action.; "The doctor followed up the surgery with radiation" |
| ~ touch up, retouch | alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance.; "This photograph has been retouched!" |
| magnify | | |
| v. (change) | 1. amplify, magnify | increase in size, volume or significance.; "Her terror was magnified in her mind" |
| ~ enlarge | become larger or bigger. |
| v. (communication) | 2. amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate | to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth.; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" |
| ~ misinform, mislead | give false or misleading information to. |
| ~ overemphasise, overemphasize, overstress | place special or excessive emphasis on.; "I cannot overemphasize the importance of this book" |
| ~ boast, brag, gasconade, shoot a line, vaunt, bluster, gas, tout, swash, blow | show off. |
| ~ aggrandise, aggrandize, embellish, pad, embroider, lard, dramatise, dramatize, blow up | add details to. |
| v. (change) | 3. blow up, enlarge, magnify | make large.; "blow up an image" |
| ~ photography, picture taking | the act of taking and printing photographs. |
| ~ increase | make bigger or more.; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" |
| great | | |
| n. (person) | 1. great | a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field.; "he is one of the greats of American music" |
| ~ achiever, succeeder, winner, success | a person with a record of successes.; "his son would never be the achiever that his father was"; "only winners need apply"; "if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success" |
| adj. | 2. great | relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind.; "a great juicy steak"; "a great multitude"; "the great auk"; "a great old oak"; "a great ocean liner"; "a great delay" |
| ~ big, large | above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world" |
| adj. | 3. great, outstanding | of major significance or importance.; "a great work of art"; "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey" |
| ~ important, of import | of great significance or value.; "important people"; "the important questions of the day" |
| adj. | 4. great | remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect.; "a great crisis"; "had a great stake in the outcome" |
| ~ extraordinary | beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable.; "extraordinary authority"; "an extraordinary achievement"; "her extraordinary beauty"; "enjoyed extraordinary popularity"; "an extraordinary capacity for work"; "an extraordinary session of the legislature" |
| adj. | 5. bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell | very good.; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ good | having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified.; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office" |
| adj. | 6. capital, great, majuscule | uppercase.; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" |
| ~ uppercase | relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case.; "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc" |
| adj. | 7. big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child | in an advanced stage of pregnancy.; "was big with child"; "was great with child" |
| ~ pregnant | carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life. |
| large | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. large | a garment size for a large person. |
| ~ size | the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing).; "he wears a size 13 shoe" |
| adj. | 2. big, large | above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world" |
| ~ sizable, sizeable, ample | fairly large.; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of ample proportions" |
| ~ astronomic, astronomical, galactic | inconceivably large. |
| ~ bear-sized | large as a bear. |
| ~ bigger, larger | large or big relative to something else. |
| ~ biggish, largish | somewhat large. |
| ~ blown-up, enlarged | as of a photograph; made larger.; "the enlarged photograph revealed many details" |
| ~ bouffant, puffy | being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing.; "a bouffant skirt" |
| ~ spacious, wide, broad | very large in expanse or scope.; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" |
| ~ bulky | of large size for its weight. |
| ~ capacious | large in capacity.; "she carried a capacious bag" |
| ~ colossal, prodigious, stupendous | so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe.; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand" |
| ~ deep | large in quantity or size.; "deep cuts in the budget" |
| ~ double | large enough for two.; "a double bed"; "a double room" |
| ~ enormous, tremendous | extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree.; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise" |
| ~ cosmic | inconceivably extended in space or time. |
| ~ elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo | of great mass; huge and bulky.; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" |
| ~ epic, heroic, larger-than-life | very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale).; "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture" |
| ~ extensive, extended | large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity.; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "they suffered extensive damage" |
| ~ gigantic, mammoth | so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth.; "a gigantic redwood"; "gigantic disappointment"; "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth multinational corporation" |
| ~ great | relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind.; "a great juicy steak"; "a great multitude"; "the great auk"; "a great old oak"; "a great ocean liner"; "a great delay" |
| ~ grand | large and impressive in physical size or extent.; "the bridge is a grand structure" |
| ~ huge, immense, vast, brobdingnagian | unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization" |
| ~ hulking, hulky | of great size and bulk.; "a hulking figure of a man"; "three hulking battleships" |
| ~ banging, humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping | (used informally) very large.; "a thumping loss" |
| ~ king-size, king-sized | extra large.; "a king-size bed" |
| ~ large-mouthed | having a relatively large mouth. |
| ~ large-scale | unusually large in scope.; "a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed" |
| ~ large-scale | constructed or drawn to a big scale.; "large-scale maps" |
| ~ full-size, life-size, life-sized, lifesize | being of the same size as an original.; "a life-size sculpture" |
| ~ macroscopic, macroscopical | large enough to be visible with the naked eye. |
| ~ macro | very large in scale or scope or capability. |
| ~ man-sized | very large; appropriate to the size of a man.; "a man-sized piece of cake" |
| ~ massive, monolithic, monumental | imposing in size or bulk or solidity.; "massive oak doors"; "Moore's massive sculptures"; "the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture"; "a monumental scale" |
| ~ massive | imposing in scale or scope or degree or power.; "massive retaliatory power"; "a massive increase in oil prices"; "massive changes" |
| ~ medium-large | of anything that is large but not the largest. |
| ~ monstrous | abnormally large. |
| ~ mountainous | like a mountain in size and impressiveness.; "mountainous waves"; "a mountainous dark man" |
| ~ outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized | larger than normal for its kind. |
| ~ overlarge, too large | excessively large. |
| ~ plumping | very large; of exceptional size for its kind.; "won by a plumping majority" |
| ~ queen-size, queen-sized | (used especially of beds) not as large as king-size.; "a queen-sized bed" |
| ~ rangy | allowing ample room for ranging. |
| ~ super | extremely large.; "another super skyscraper" |
| ~ titanic | of great force or power. |
| ~ volumed | formed or rising in rounded masses.; "gasping with the volumed smoke" |
| ~ voluminous | large in volume or bulk.; "a voluminous skirt" |
| ~ whacking | (British informal) enormous.; "a whacking phone bill"; "a whacking lie" |
| ~ wide-ranging | including much.; "the pianist's wide-ranging repertoire" |
| adj. | 3. large | fairly large or important in effect; influential.; "played a large role in the negotiations" |
| ~ significant, important | important in effect or meaning.; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant" |
| adj. | 4. bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid | ostentatiously lofty in style.; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" |
| ~ rhetorical | given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought.; "mere rhetorical frippery" |
| adj. | 5. big, large, magnanimous | generous and understanding and tolerant.; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies" |
| ~ generous | not petty in character and mind.; "unusually generous in his judgment of people" |
| adj. | 6. big, large, prominent | conspicuous in position or importance.; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen" |
| ~ conspicuous | obvious to the eye or mind.; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening" |
| adj. | 7. large | having broad power and range and scope.; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy" |
| ~ comprehensive | including all or everything.; "comprehensive coverage"; "a comprehensive history of the revolution"; "a comprehensive survey"; "a comprehensive education" |
| adv. | 8. large | at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark). |
| adv. | 9. large | with the wind abaft the beam.; "a ship sailing large" |
| adv. | 10. big, boastfully, large, vauntingly | in a boastful manner.; "he talked big all evening" |
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