THESAURUS
heightening
accelerando, acceleration, aggrandizement, aggravation, amplification, annoyance, augmentation, ballyhoo, beefing-up, big talk, blowing up, blowup, burlesque, caricature, concentration, condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deepening, deliberate aggravation, deterioration, dilatation, dilation, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exaggerating, exaggeration, exasperation, excess, exorbitance, expansion, explosion, extravagance, extreme, grandiloquence, heating-up, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, increase, inflation, information explosion, inordinacy, intensification, irritation, magnification, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, pickup, population explosion, prodigality, profuseness, provocation, puffery, puffing up, redoubling, reinforcement, sensationalism, sharpening, souring, speedup, step-up, strengthening, stretching, superlative, tall talk, tightening, touting, travesty, worsening
ROGET THESAURUS
heightening
Aggravation
N
aggravation, worsening,
heightening, exacerbation, exasperation, overestimation, exaggeration, aggravated, worse, unrelieved, aggravable, aggravating, out of the frying pan into the fire, from bad to worse, worse and worse, Int, so much the worse!.
