All swell synonyms
swell
S s adj swell
- fairish β moderately good, large, or well: a fairish income.
- far-out β unconventional; offbeat; avant-garde.
- in character β the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
- dandy β A dandy is a man who thinks a great deal about his appearance and always dresses in smart clothes.
- crashing β (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- hunky-dory β about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
- acceptable β Acceptable activities and situations are those that most people approve of or consider to be normal.
- in fashion β a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- fine and dandy β (Informal) superb, excellent.
- bandbox β a lightweight usually cylindrical box used for holding small articles, esp hats
verb swell
- go up β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- curdling β Present participle of curdle.
- flatter oneself β to hold the self-satisfying or self-deluding belief (that)
- glomming β to steal.
- amplify β If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
- boom β If there is a boom in the economy, there is an increase in economic activity, for example in the amount of things that are being bought and sold.
- get well β conveying wishes for one's recovery, as from an illness: a get-well card.
- eddied β a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- intensity β the quality or condition of being intense.
- coarsen β If something coarsens or is coarsened, it becomes thicker or rougher in texture.
- well β in a good or satisfactory manner: Business is going well.
- caking β Present participle of cake.
- flitch β the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon.
- augment β To augment something means to make it larger, stronger, or more effective by adding something to it.
- fill up β a full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire: to eat one's fill.
- engorge β Cause to swell with blood, water, or another fluid.
- bulk up β If someone or something bulks up or bulks out, they become bigger or heavier.
- mounded β a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
- hang around β to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- bugging out β Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- elevate β Raise or lift (something) up to a higher position.
- abound β If things abound, or if a place abounds with things, there are very large numbers of them.
- add β ADD is an abbreviation for attention deficit disorder.
- blub β If someone blubs, they cry because they are unhappy or frightened.
- mounding β a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
noun swell
- fashion plate β a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
- convexity β the state or quality of being convex
- beat β If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- aggrandisement β an act or instance of aggrandizing, or increasing in size, or intensity: aggrandizement of mercantile trade in the early colonies.
- maximization β to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
- davy jones's locker β the bottom of the sea; grave of those drowned at sea or buried there
- opener β a person or thing that opens.
- aggrandization β The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
- optimization β The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
- maximisation β Alternative spelling of maximization.
- maturation β the act or process of maturating.