increased

Anything described as increased has become bigger or more numerous. After an increased amount of rain, there could be flooding. A person riding a motorcycle without a helmet has an increased risk of bonking her head.

To increase something is to make more of it. Therefore, anything described as increased has expanded in some way. If there's increased paranoia, there's more paranoia. If there's increased unemployment, unemployment has gone up. If there's increased obesity, more people are obese. The opposite of this word is decreased. Decreased employment and increased unemployment mean the same thing. Tricky!

Definitions of increased

1. adjective

   made greater in size or amount or degree
   synonyms:

   accrued, accumulated

   periodically accumulated over time

   augmented

   added to or made greater in amount or number or strength

   enhanced

   increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality

   hyperbolic, inflated

   enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness

   enlarged, exaggerated, magnified

   enlarged to an abnormal degree

   multiplied

   greatly increased as by multiplication

   elevated, raised

   increased in amount or degree

   redoubled

   become much greater in intensity or size or amount

   antonyms:

   decreased

   made less in size or amount or degree

   ablated

   made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization

   attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened

   reduced in strength

   attenuated

   of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion

   bated

   diminished or moderated

   belittled, diminished, small

   made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

   cut, slashed

   (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply

   diminished

   (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval

   minimized

   reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree

   remittent

   (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity

   shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken

   reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity