Keep in mind that some synonyms in the list below might not be “perfect” synonyms – there may be slight differences in meaning and connotation. Buy and purchase are also synonyms – although we tend to use “buy” in a more informal context, and “purchase” in a more formal context. As long as you're not trying to stay latinate just to sound smarter, it should be fine.A synonym is a word with the same or a similar meaning as another word.įor example, the words big and large are synonyms. It's basic and perfectly clear Germanic vocab that more of your readers will understand than latinate verbiage like 'increment', 'augment', or-Heaven forfend-'decrement' or 'wax greater employing an incremence of one'. Well, 'go (up|down)' is somewhat colloquial but it's not so informal as ' upsize', ' +1ed', &c. P.S.: The intended use is a technical publication, so please no colloquial terms and phrases. It's still odd that you're speaking in the past tense in a technical publication where you're presumably speaking generally or providing advice for future action, rather than reporting on your former forays into the fast-paced world of shoe sizing. If the shoe didn't fit, we adjusted it up or down one size at a time. A one-size adjustment might've still been too (small|large). It's unnatural because you're using the past tense to propose tentative solutions-not to report the final answer-but talking about those tentative solutions as though they were final. No, it doesn't, but not because the second 'size' disappeared. Rephrase to delete the first one, as above. I think it sounds weird because of the repetition of "size" however, I think I cannot just delete the second "size". " If the shoe doesn't fit, try the next size ( up| down)." " If the shoe doesn't fit, go ( up| down) to the next size."Īlthough, given the tentativeness of the proposed solution, it'd also be common to use some version of ' try': The idiom for this situation is ' go up' or ' down': Even if you used 'progress' or 'increment' there, it's just like 'increase' that you're going to have to specify the increments you're using. Otherwise, people are going to take it as the distance between successive steps.Įr, no, there's no single word that works there. ' Increment' is the closest in current use, but "increasing by one unit on each iteration" is only going to be understood in programming contexts. "to go up by steps") have taken on expanded senses that obscure the exactness you're trying for. There are several, although most of them like ' progress' (orig. I was wondering if there is a synonym for the word group "increase by one". Yup, I got it now, you could say "the next size was chosen" and I will never ask a question here again because obviously this here is native speaker corner and these kind of synonym questions are trivial.
#Synonyms for increase series
P.P.S.: For the offended footlocker headquarter - imagine a series of tubes in your kitchen that come in sizes one, two, three (I hear already plumbers shouting "no, they don't") and the same situation "If the tube was too small to connect with the sink, the tube size was increased by one." P.S.: The intended use is a technical publication, so please no colloquial terms or phrases. "If the shoe didn't fit, the shoe size was increased by one."
Or does the sentence below sound natural to native speakers? So I thought there might be a synonym to give the sentence more variability. I think it sounds weird because of the repetition of "size", however, I think I cannot just delete the second "size". "If the shoe didn't fit, the shoe size was increased by one size."
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