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ascending

[uh-sen-ding] / əˈsɛn dɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
rising
Synonyms
STRONGEST
climbing growing increasing soaring spiraling surging
STRONG
advancing emerging mounting skyrocketing
WEAK
going up upsurging
ADJECTIVE
arising
Synonyms
STRONGEST
climbing mounting rising soaring
STRONG
awakening waking waking up
WEAK
ascendant assurgent
ADJECTIVE
soaring
Synonyms
STRONGEST
climbing lofty steep towering
STRONG
aerial elevated flying
WEAK
going through the ceiling going through the roof high-reaching sky-high
Antonyms
STRONG
ground
ADJECTIVE
uphill
Synonyms
STRONGEST
skyward
STRONG
climbing mounting rising uprising
WEAK
acclivous sloping upward toward summit up
Antonyms
WEAK
downhill easy facile
ADVERB
upward
Synonyms
STRONGEST
higher skyward uphill
WEAK
above antrorse greater lofty
Antonyms
WEAK
downward
NOUN
ascent
Synonyms
STRONGEST
ascendance ascension climb
STRONG
climbing lift mounting rise rising scaling spring
WEAK
blastoff clambering launch takeoff
Antonyms
WEAK
descent landing lowering

Example Sentences

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Note how the depth of the cup base successfully retested the ascending triangle breakout on March 20.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

Ternus joined as a mechanical engineer in 2001, before ascending to the leadership team in 2013.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

However, the 2013 US Open champion admits ascending to the top of a bunched leaderboard is a more daunting prospect than trying to catch one player.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

And besides that, with their hard-fought Final Four victories Friday over Texas and Connecticut, respectively, barometers for other programs that dream of ascending to such elite heights.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

The horizontal rows, meanwhile, arrange the chemicals in ascending order by the number of protons in their nuclei–what is known as their atomic number.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson