Synonyms:
bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not_bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing
Meaning: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
swell, crestless_wave
Meaning: the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
Synonyms:
swell
Meaning: a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
Synonyms:
swell
Meaning: a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
swell
Meaning: increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"
Synonyms:
swell, puff_up
Meaning: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
Synonyms:
swell, swell_up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
Meaning: expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
Synonyms:
well_up, swell
Meaning: come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things); "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
Synonyms:
well, swell
Meaning: come up, as of a liquid; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up"
Usage examples
Like the swell of Summer's ocean
[III] You Tides with Ceaseless Swell
He was a swell, and girls like that kind of thing.
Cook slowly and let every grain swell to its utmost.
The man who means honestly is the best swell I know.
Peas do not begin to swell for a couple of hours or more.
The HISPANIOLA was rolling scuppers under in the ocean swell.
He said a lot in a few words, and didn't try to cut any swell. He was a hard student.
The grain will swell, at first slowly and then very rapidly, and the flask will resume its former dimensions, or burst if it is not watched.
But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south.