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present participle of mushroom.

mushrooming

ADJECTIVE

flourishing

Synonyms

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blooming burgeoning expanding growing prosperous thriving

STRONG

rank roaring

WEAK

doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse rampant rich robust successful vigorous

Antonyms

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declining failing losing

WEAK

ceasing decreasing languishing stunted undeveloping

ADJECTIVE

growing

Synonyms

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burgeoning developing expanding flourishing spreading thriving viable

STRONG

amplifying animate augmenting budding crescent dilating enlarging fructifying germinating living maturing pullulating sprouting stretching swelling waxing

WEAK

crescive

Antonyms

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failing languishing

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dead dying shrinking

WEAK

lessening withering

ADJECTIVE

prospering

Synonyms

STRONG

blooming booming burgeoning expanding growing rank roaring thriving

WEAK

boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant rich robust successful thrifty vigorous

Antonyms

STRONG

declining

ADJECTIVE

roaring

Synonyms

STRONGEST

booming thriving

STRONG

blooming burgeoning expanding growing lush prospering rank rich

WEAK

boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant robust successful thrifty vigorous

Antonyms

STRONG

barren sparse

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New data centres -- warehouse-like facilities that store online files and power AI tools from chatbots to image generators -- are mushrooming worldwide, and the sector is growing particularly fast in Asia.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

Drug deductibles—the amount you pay up front before coverage kicks in—are mushrooming for many.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Moreover, the rule addressed a marketing process that is destined to keep mushrooming.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2025

But outrage over mushrooming college “sticker” prices clouds a reality that some families may not fully understand: Few students pay the full price.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2024

Gerald Black, at his own request, was supervising the mushrooming wooden partitions that were springing up in a bellying circle on the vaulted third floor of Radiation Building 2.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

mushrooming

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