English adjective: ascending | |||
1. | ascending moving or going or growing upward | ||
Samples | The ascending plane. The ascending staircase. The ascending stems of chickweed. | ||
Similar | acclivitous, ascendant, ascendent, ascensive, assurgent, assurgent, highflying, rising, scandent, up, uphill, upward | ||
See also | up | ||
Antonyms | descending | ||
English noun: ascending | |||
1. | ascending (act) the act of changing location in an upward direction | ||
Synonyms | ascension, ascent, rise | ||
Broader (hypernym) | motion, move, movement | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | climb, heave, heaving, levitation, mount, soar, zoom | ||