Development and Reason

Development

Development noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.
Usage example: a development that the writers of the law never anticipated or intended

Reason is an antonym for development.

Reason

Reason noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.
Usage example: what's the meteorological reason for tornadoes?

Development is an antonym for reason.

How words are described

good good development good reason
best best development best reason
similar similar development similar reason
initial initial development initial reason
Other adjectives: single, strong, actual, entire, real, little, excellent, main, important, personal, new, major, less, different.

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Captain America: The First Avenger It's also hinted that the Tesseract/Cosmic Cube was the only reason why they even made it out of development instead of scrapped in real life.
  • Saved from Development Hell An NPC in EarthBound Beginnings wonders when EarthBound is going to be released, and for good reason: Mother 2 was in development for a then unheard-of four years.
  • No Port For You American Girl is guilty of this - for no explicable reason other than mentioning on their Facebook page that they are comfortable with iOS development.
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