twentyfold

Multiplied by twenty

Twentyfold means twenty times as much or as many.

As an adjective, it describes something multiplied by twenty: a twentyfold increase in production.

As an adverb, it indicates the degree of multiplication: The investment returned twentyfold.

Like other -fold compounds, it emphasizes dramatic scale of change or difference.

multiplication

multiplier

Number that scales another

  • factorContributor to result
  • timesOccurrences or multiplications
  • 20xMultiplied by twenty

multiple · coefficient · ratio · proportion · scale · magnitude · exponential · geometric · compound · factorial

increase

amplify

Increase in strength

heighten · magnify · strengthen · enhance · augment · surge · skyrocket · soar · multiply · balloon

growth

expansion

Increase in scope

profit · yield · surge · boom · multiplication · compounding · accumulation · acceleration · progression · advancement

excess

surplus

Amount exceeding requirement

surfeit · overflow · profusion · saturation · superfluity · extravagance · overkill · exorbitance · overload · oversupply

Opposites
multiplication factor

twentyfoldsingle

One in number

unchanged · one-to-one · twofold · doubled · tripled

direction of change

twentyfoldfractional

Describing incomplete portions

halved · quartered · diminished · shrunk · contracted

Family

fold, twin, twice, twelve, twenty, twentieth, manifold, tween, twenties

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G