Synonyms for ascending

Synonyms for (noun) ascending

Synonyms: rise, ascending, ascension, ascent

Definition: the act of changing location in an upward direction

Similar words: motion, move, movement

Definition: the act of changing location from one place to another

Usage: police controlled the motion of the crowd; the movement of people from the farms to the cities; his move put him directly in my path


Synonyms for (adj) ascending

Synonyms: ascending

Definition: moving or going or growing upward

Usage: the ascending plane; the ascending staircase; the ascending stems of chickweed

Similar words: acclivitous, uphill, rising

Definition: sloping upward


Similar words: ascendant, ascendent, ascensive

Definition: tending or directed upward

Usage: rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage- John Ruskin


Similar words: assurgent

Definition: growing or extending upward

Usage: an assurgent stem or leaf


Similar words: assurgent

Definition: rising from the sea

Usage: a seahorse assurgent


Similar words: scandent

Definition: used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb

Usage: plants of a creeping or scandent nature


Similar words: highflying

Definition: moving upward or along at a considerable height

Usage: some highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it


Similar words: up, upward

Definition: extending or moving toward a higher place

Usage: the up staircase; a general upward movement of fish


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