growing

1. 1.

   relating to or suitable for growth

   “the growing season for corn”

   “good growing weather”

Other forms of growing

plural

growings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about growing

What does growing mean?

growing means "(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in growing?

growing has 2 syllables: gro-wing. The stress falls on "gro". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹoʊɪŋ/.

What is another word for growing?

Close synonyms include growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is growing a common word?

growing is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.