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crescive

[kres-iv] / ˈkrɛs ɪv /
ADJECTIVE
growing
Synonyms
STRONGEST
burgeoning developing expanding flourishing spreading thriving viable
STRONG
amplifying animate augmenting budding crescent dilating enlarging fructifying germinating living maturing mushrooming pullulating sprouting stretching swelling waxing
Antonyms
STRONGEST
failing languishing
STRONG
dead dying shrinking
WEAK
lessening withering

Example Sentences

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Grew like the summer Grass, fastest by night, Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

The great and crescive self, rooted in absolute nature, supplants all relative existence and ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.