mushrooming
Spreading very quickly
Mushrooming describes rapid, expansive growth—like a mushroom appearing seemingly overnight.
Costs, populations, or problems can be mushrooming: mushrooming debt, mushrooming suburbs.
The word also means gathering wild mushrooms: We went mushrooming in the forest after the rain.
Rapid increase in quantity
- burgeoningExpanding or developing rapidly
- explosionViolent burst of energy
- boomLoud deep sound
- surgeSudden powerful increase
escalation · exponential · sprawl · spread · multiplication · snowballing · skyrocketing · ballooning
proliferation
Rapid increase in quantity
- burgeoningExpanding or developing rapidly
- explosionViolent burst of energy
- boomLoud deep sound
surge · escalation · exponential · sprawl · spread · multiplication · snowballing · skyrocketing · ballooning · swelling
- gatheringgathering, collecting, accumulating, amassing, compiling
- increasesincrease, rise, gain, boost, hike
- candlemakingcandle wax, beeswax, soy wax, paraffin wax, wick
- foragingforaging, harvest, gather, gatherers, forage
- Proliferationspread, multiplication, expansion, propagation, growth
- runaway effectschain reaction, domino effect, snowball effect, runaway effect, feedback loop
mushroomingshrinking
Decreasing in dimension
contracting · declining · dwindling · decreasing · collapsing
mushroomingstagnating
Ceasing to develop
stagnant · static · flat · plateauing · unchanging
mushroom, mushrooms, toadstool, fungal, mushroomed, fungicide, mycology, mushroomy, mushroom-shaped