Synonyms of the word

ascending

• v. present participle of ascend.
• n. An ascent.

acclivitous

• adj. Acclivous.

ascendant

• adj. Rising, moving upward.
• adj. Surpassing or controlling.
• n. Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
• n. An ancestor (antonym of descendant).
• n. Ascent; height; elevation.
• n. (astrology) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment…

ascendent

• adj. Upward in direction or proclivity.
• adj. In power; controlling.
• n. A person from whom one is descended.
• n. A position of power or control.

ascension

• n. The act of ascending; an ascent.
• n. That which rises, as from distillation.

ascensive

• adj. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
• adj. (grammar) Augmentative; intensive.

ascent

• n. The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
• n. The way or means by which one ascends.
• n. An eminence, hill, or high place.
• n. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising…
• n. (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
• n. An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy.

assurgent

• n. (heraldry) A man or beast rising out of the sea.
• adj. Rising or tending to rise.
• adj. (botany) Curving upward.

highflying

• adj. Characteristic of a highflier.

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

rise

• v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
• v. To begin; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
• v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
• v. To come; to offer itself.
• v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
• n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
• n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
• n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
• n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
• n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
• n. (informal) An angry reaction.
• n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

rising

• v. present participle of rise.
• n. Rebellion.
• n. The act of something that rises.
• n. (US, dated) A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
• adj. Going up.
• prep. (US, slang, dated) More than; exceeding; upwards of.

scandent

• adj. (botany) climbing, without obvious morphological adaptations.

up

• adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
• adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely.
• adv. To or from one's possession or consideration.
• adv. North.
• adv. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
• adv. (rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost…
• adv. (sailing) Against the wind or current.
• adv. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
• adv. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
• adv. (hospitality, US) Without additional ice.
• adv. (Britain, academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford.
• adv. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from,…
• adv. To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite.
• adv. Aside, so as not to be in use.
• prep. Toward the top of.
• prep. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
• prep. Further along (in any direction).
• prep. From south to north of.
• prep. From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway).
• prep. (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with.
• prep. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location).
• adj. Awake.
• adj. Finished, to an end.
• adj. In a good mood.
• adj. Willing; ready.
• adj. Next in a sequence.
• adj. Happening; new.
• adj. Facing upwards; facing toward the top.
• adj. Larger, greater in quantity.
• adj. Standing.
• adj. On a higher level.
• adj. Available; made public.
• adj. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
• adj. Well-informed; current.
• adj. (computing) Functional; working.
• adj. (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
• adj. Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.
• adj. (bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass.
• adj. (slang) Erect.
• adj. (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time).
• adj. (slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned.
• n. (uncountable) The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
• n. (countable) A positive thing.
• n. An upstairs room of a two story house.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To increase or raise.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
• v. (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend; to climb up.

uphill

• adv. Up a slope, towards higher ground.
• adv. (by extension) With difficulty.
• adj. Located up a slope or on a hill.
• adj. Going up a slope or a hill.
• adj. (by extension) Difficult or laborious.
• n. An uphill route.

upward

• adv. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin.
• adv. In the upper parts; above.
• adv. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
• n. (obsolete) The upper part; the top.
• adj. Directed toward a higher place.