Word Type

Noun

The word "development" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

demolish nondevelopment

Derived Terms

DevOps DevSecOps antidevelopment arrested development business development career development cluster development codevelopment community development counterdevelopment development aid development hell development limbo development mule developmental developmentary developmentation devlog disorder of sex development dualistic development ecodevelopment ethnodevelopment human development hyperdevelopment hypodevelopment maldevelopment megadevelopment misdevelopment neurodevelopment nondevelopment overdevelopment personal development predevelopment psychosexual development redevelopment research and development resume-driven development sociodevelopment subdevelopment superdevelopment sustainable development test-driven development topside development underdevelopment undevelopment web development zone of proximal development

Derived From

develop

Context

biology chess math music real estate

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

alteration biological process change district dominion employment exercise improvement melioration modification organic process physical process process processing section subdivision territorial dominion territory usage use utilisation utilization

Type Of (IsA)

becoming biological process change district improvement process processing section

Related Terms

change develop developing directed function grow growing growth housing housing neighborhood improvement multicellular neighborhood organism research series sonata form sustainable development

Synonym Network

disclosure disentanglement explication exploitation growth increase unfolding unravelling

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