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proliferate, v. 1. increase, enlarge, make larger, aggrandize; spread, expand, extend, spread out, grow rife or rampant, branch out, Pathol, metastasize; widen, thicken, lengthen, prolong, protract; grow, wax, swell, inflate; elevate, raise, boost.
2. multiply, double, duplicate, make twofold, redouble, triple, triplicate, quadruple, quintuple, quin-tuplicate, sextuple, octuple, decuple, make tenfold, make numerous or multitudinous.
3. escalate, step up, give a boost to, U.S. Sl. soup up, Sl. hop up, Sl. jazz up; accelerate, snowball, mushroom; burgeon, shoot up, rise, skyrocket, boom, develop vigorously; thrive, prosper, flourish.
4. propagate, produce, generate, make fruitful or prolific or fecund, fecundate; reproduce, breed; be prolific, fructify, be fruitful, pullulate, be fertile, breed like a rabbit, bloom, blossom, flower; spring up, sprout. proliferation, n. 1. increase, augmentation, buildup, enlargement, expansion, extension; magnification, amplification; spread, spreading out, branching out; growth, waxing, swelling, inflation; elevation, raise, boost.
2. multiplication, doubling, duplication, redoubling, tripling, triplication, quadrupling, quadruplication, quintuplication, quintupling, sextupling, septupling, septuplication, octupling, decupling.
3. escalation, acceleration, intensification, concentration; snowballing, mushrooming, skyrocketing; mounting, rising, ascending; upsurge, upswing, shooting up, step-up; burgeoning, flourishing, booming, thriving.
4. propagation, breeding, generation, production; reproduction, procreation, engenderment; fructification, pullulation, fecundation, multiparity. prolific, adj. 1. fertile, philoprogenitive, yielding, fruitful, fructiferous, fructuous, feracious; fecund, proliferative, proliferous; productive, generative, fruc-tificative, fruitive, fruit-bearing; propagative, prop-agatory, propagational, multiplicative, regenerative.
2. profuse, abundant, plenteous, Rare, uberous, full; exuberant, luxurious, lush, rank, rife, rich, flush, copious, bounteous, rich. prolix, adj. 1. verbose, wordy, long-winded; tautological, redundant, pleonastic, battological; discursive, digressive, rambling, wandering; circumlocutory, roundabout, circuitous, ambagious; lengthy, very long, extensive, sesquipedalian; extended, drawn out, dragged out, protracted, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-spun, spun out, prolonged, prolongated, lengthened, elongated, elongate; profuse, profusive, extravagant, uneconomical; detailed, full of detail, full of verbiage, padded; diffuse, garrulous, talkative, loquacious, voluble; boring, tedious, tiring, dreary, wearisome, monotonous, dry, dry-as-dust, humdrum, prosaic.
2. bombastic, orotund, grandiose, grandiloquent, Johnsonian, Ossianic; flatulent, turgid, plethoric, euphuistic, periphrastic. prolixity, n. verbosity, verboseness, wordiness, long-windedness, verbiage; tautology, redundance, pleonasm, battology; discursiveness, discursion, digression, rambling, maundering, wandering; circumlocution, circuity, ambagiousness, roundaboutness; garrulity, talkativeness, loquaciousness, volubility; tediousness, monotonousness, tiresomeness.