English word
Spring
Definitions
verb (1)
- dart, shoot
- to make a leap or series of leaps
- to leap or jump up suddenly
- to stretch out in height : rise
- pay
- to cause to spring
- to undergo or bring about the splitting or cracking of
- to undergo the opening of (a leak)
- to cause to operate suddenly
- to apply or insert by bending
- to bend by force
- to be resilient or elastic
- to leap over
- to move by elastic forcealso
- to produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- to make lame
- to release or cause to be released from confinement or custody
- to become warped
- to issue with speed and force or as a stream
- to grow as a plant
- to issue by birth or descent
- to come into being : arise
- dawnarchaic
- to begin to blow
Synonyms for spring
Closest evidence-backed alternatives.
- springtime
- season
- budding
- breakup
- budtime
- easter
- eastertide
- eastertime
Synonyms by context
The season following winter
noun
- springtide
- flowering
- maytime
A coiled shape or device
noun
- coil
- hairspring
- helix
- mainspring
- spiral
- twist
- whorl
- loop
- corkscrew
- gyre
The ability to spring back strongly, or the quality of being flexible
noun
- elasticity
- bounce
- bounciness
- flexibility
- give
- springiness
- resilience
- buoyancy
- recoil
- stretch
To move or jump suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards
verb
- leap
- bound
- jump
- hop
- vault
- hurdle
- launch
- lope
- bolt
To originate from
verb
- originate
- stem
- arise
- begin
- birth
- commence
- emanate
- actualize
- come
- dawn
Pertaining to, or occurring during, the spring season
adjective
- vernal
- springlike
- springly
- spring-like
Of, or occurring during, one of the four seasons
adjective
- seasonal
- autumn
- summer
- winter
- autumnal
Antonyms for spring
- rigidity
- firmness
- stiffness
- inelasticity
- solidity
- solidness
- inflexibility
Opposite of the ability to spring back strongly, or the quality of being flexible
- rigidity
- firmness
- stiffness
- inelasticity
- solidity
- solidness
- inflexibility
- toughness
- hardness
- sturdiness
Opposite of energy, liveliness or vigor
- lethargy
- languor
- lassitude
- sluggishness
- torpor
- listlessness
- slowness
- dullness
- torpidity
- languidness
Opposite of the origin or a source of something
- effect
- impact
- influence
- ramification
- consequence
- significance
- implication
- repercussion
- footprint
- aftereffect
Opposite of to move or jump suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards
- wait
- sit
- await
- rest
- hang
- stall
- abide
- remain
- stay
- linger
Opposite of to move rapidly or suddenly from a constrained position
- keep
- stop
- reside
- persist
- lodge
- continue
- carry on being
Opposite of to originate from
- end
- cease
- conclude
- finish
- discontinue
- terminate
- dissolve
- drop
- break
Phrases
- blackberry winter
- blackthorn winter
- dogwood winter
- season of grass
- vernal equinox
- vernal season