Generation Synonyms and Antonyms

jĕnə-rāshən
The act of producing
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. engendering
  2. formation
  3. creation
The act of producing offspring
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. propagation
  2. procreation
  3. reproduction
  4. breeding
  5. bearing
  6. spawning
  7. multiplication
  8. bringing-forth
  9. multiplying
  10. fructifying
Antonyms:
  1. destruction
  2. perishing
  3. dying-out
  4. becoming extinct
One cycle in the succession of parents and children
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. age
  2. crop
  3. rank
  4. contemporaries
  5. peers
  6. coevals
  7. peer group
  8. age-group

Words Related to Generation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. generatrix
  2. alternation-of-generations
  3. decade
  4. new-generation
  5. year

Generation Sentence Examples

  • This generation has no idea.

  • Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  • I am third generation PMF, like Brady.

  • The independent plant which is generally attached to the soil by hair-like structures is the sexual generation, the sporophyte is a stalked or sessile capsule which remains always attached to the gametophyte from which it derives the whole or part of its nourishment.

  • It was a way for that generation to ask, Why is there war?

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