mushrooming

ADJECTIVE

flourishing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

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

STRONGEST

declining failing losing

WEAK

ceasing decreasing languishing stunted undeveloping

ADJECTIVE

growing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

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

STRONGEST

failing languishing

STRONG

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

Example Sentences

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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

In nursing homes mushrooming across the Mexican border, elderly Americans are turning up for low-cost care.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

And they’re not new, although they do seem to be mushrooming.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

Workshops and underground waacking jams - events where dancers battle it out with their moves - are mushrooming in several cities and international waacking legends are visiting the country to teach the dance.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2024

Anthony told me that we were going to be joined by someone they’d met at the burn the week before, a young guy known to them only by his mushrooming nickname: Paulie Porcini.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

mushrooming

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