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ballooning

verb , present participle of balloon

Synonyms and Antonyms of ballooning

1 to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number

the number of students who stay home sick balloons every winter

Synonyms of ballooning

accelerating, accumulating, appreciating, booming, building up, burgeoning (also bourgeoning), climbing, enlarging, escalating, expanding, gaining, increasing, mounting, multiplying, mushrooming, proliferating, rising, rolling up, snowballing, spreading, swelling, waxing

Words Related to ballooning

jumping, rocketing, skyrocketing, surging

heightening, intensifying, redoubling

blowing up, bulking, distending, inflating, puffing (up)

crescendoing, cresting, peaking

Antonyms of ballooning

contracting, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, lessening, receding, waning

2 to extend outward beyond a usual point

the paper bag ballooned and blew away as the wind lifted it skyward

Synonyms of ballooning

bagging, beetling, bellying, billowing, bulging, bunching, jutting, overhanging, poking, pooching [chiefly dialect], pouching, pouting, projecting, protruding, standing out, starting, sticking out, swelling

Words Related to ballooning

blowing up, inflating

dilating, distending, expanding

mushrooming, snowballing

elongating, extending, lengthening, stretching

Near Antonyms of ballooning

compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting, shrinking

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