Thesaurus:increase

Thesaurus

increase

English

Verb

(intransitive)

Sense: to become larger or greater

Synonyms

• accelerate
• accrue
• aggrandize (rare)
• augment    [⇒ thesaurus]
• embiggen (nonstandard, usually humorous)
• enhance
• enlarge
• greaten
• grow
• heighten
• increase
• swell
• wax (literary)
• wind up

Antonyms

• contract
• decrease    [⇒ thesaurus]
• lessen

Hypernyms

• happen    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

In intensity or power:

• aggravate    [⇒ thesaurus] (now rare)
• brighten (of light)
• crescendo    [⇒ thesaurus]
• escalate
• intensify

In a single dimension:

• broaden
• climb
• deepen
• dilate
• go up
• lengthen    [⇒ thesaurus]
• widen    [⇒ thesaurus]

In size / in more than one dimension:

• burgeon
• dilate
• expand
• inflate

In quantity:

• multiply
• propagate

In speed:

• accelerate
• quicken
• speed up    [⇒ thesaurus]
• surge

In value:

• compound
• go up
• rise

In status:

• aggrandize    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ascend (figurative)

With respect to time:

• accumulate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• shoot up (sometimes figurative)
• skyrocket (idiomatic)
• surge

Other:

• extend
• get better
• strengthen    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:augment (transitive, to make larger or greater)

Further reading

• “35. increase” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “194. expansion” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “increase” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.