Historique

swell

v.

[1]	swell out/up , grow , increase , enlarge , expand , blow/puff up/out , distend , inflate , dilate , wax , mushroom , belly , balloon , bloat , bulge , billow , fatten , rise , tumefy
[2]	grow , increase , mushroom , snowball , accumulate , mount
[3]	increase , raise , augment , enlarge , boost , step up
[4]	puff up
[5]	swell up , intumesce , tumefy , tumesce
[6]	well up
[7]	well

n.

[1]	crestless wave
[2]	dandy , enlargement , dude , broadening , fop , increase , extension , gallant , sheik , spread , beau , swelling , inflation , fashion plate , clotheshorse , expansion , rise , surge
[3]	wave , surge , billow
[4]	fop , dandy , gay blade , fashion plate , Beau Brummell , (Archaic) coxcomb , (Historical) macaroni , (Colloq) clothes-horse , (US) fancy Dan , (Slang) nob , (Archaic) lounge lizard , (Brit) toff

adj.

[1]	smart , chic , stylish , fashionable , modish , grand , luxurious , de luxe , elegant , first-rate , first-class , top-grade , (Colloq) posh , swank , swanky , ritzy
[2]	marvellous , thrilling , splendid , spectacular , first-rate , fine , (Colloq) great , super , terrific
[3]	bang-up , bully , corking , cracking , dandy , great , groovy , keen , neat , nifty , not bad , peachy , slap-up , smashing