Usually means: Making a situation significantly worse.
Definitions Related words Mentions History
We found 14 dictionaries that define the word exacerbating:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. exacerbating: Merriam-Webster
  2. exacerbating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. exacerbating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Exacerbating, exacerbating: Wordnik
  5. exacerbating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. exacerbating: Wiktionary
  7. exacerbating: Dictionary.com
  8. exacerbating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. exacerbating: Rhymezone
  10. exacerbating: FreeDictionary.org
  11. exacerbating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. exacerbating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exacerbating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exacerbating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See exacerbate as well.)

Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky
Definitions from Wiktionary (exacerbating)

▸ adjective:  That exacerbates

Similar:
intensifying, exasperating, aggravating, exacerbative, exacerbatory, aggravative, exasperative, extenuative, augmentary, sensitizing, more...

Opposite:
alleviating, mitigating, lessening

▸ Words similar to exacerbating

▸ Usage examples for exacerbating

▸ Idioms related to exacerbating

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Popular nouns described by exacerbating

▸ Words that often appear near exacerbating

▸ Rhymes of exacerbating

▸ Invented words related to exacerbating

Similar:
intensifying, exasperating, aggravating, exacerbative, exacerbatory, aggravative, exasperative, extenuative, augmentary, sensitizing, more...

Opposite:
alleviating, mitigating, lessening



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.


(Click a button above to see words related to "exacerbating" that fit the given meter.)



Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux