'ascent' definitions:
Definition of 'ascent'
(from WordNet)
noun
An upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall]
noun
A movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [syn: rise, rising, ascent, ascension] [ant: fall]
noun
Synonyms of 'ascent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abruptness,
- access,
- accession,
- acclivity,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- accumulation,
- addition,
- advance,
- advancement,
- aggrandizement,
- airiness,
- amelioration,
- amendment,
- amplification,
- angular motion,
- apotheosis,
- appreciation,
- ascending,
- ascension,
- assumption,
- augmentation,
- axial motion,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backward motion,
- ballooning,
- beatification,
- bettering,
- betterment,
- bloating,
- boom,
- boost,
- broadening,
- Brownian movement,
- bubbliness,
- buildup,
- buoyancy,
- canonization,
- career,
- climb,
- climbing,
- course,
- crescendo,
- current,
- daintiness,
- deification,
- delicacy,
- descending,
- descent,
- development,
- downiness,
- downward motion,
- drift,
- driftage,
- ebbing,
- edema,
- elevation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- enrichment,
- enshrinement,
- erection,
- escalation,
- ethereality,
- eugenics,
- euthenics,
- exaltation,
- expansion,
- extension,
- flight,
- floatability,
- flood,
- flow,
- fluffiness,
- flux,
- foaminess,
- forward motion,
- frothiness,
- furtherance,
- gain,
- gentleness,
- gossameriness,
- Great Leap Forward,
- greatening,
- growth,
- gush,
- headway,
- height,
- hike,
- improvement,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflation,
- jump,
- lack of weight,
- leap,
- levitation,
- levity,
- lift,
- lifting,
- lightness,
- melioration,
- mend,
- mending,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- oblique motion,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- passage,
- pickup,
- plunging,
- precipitousness,
- preferment,
- productiveness,
- progress,
- progression,
- proliferation,
- promotion,
- radial motion,
- raise,
- raising,
- random motion,
- rearing,
- recovery,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regression,
- restoration,
- retrogression,
- revival,
- rise,
- rising,
- rising ground,
- run,
- rush,
- set,
- sideward motion,
- sinking,
- snowballing,
- soaring,
- softness,
- spread,
- steepness,
- sternway,
- stream,
- subsiding,
- surge,
- sursum corda,
- swelling,
- tenderness,
- traject,
- trajet,
- trend,
- tumescence,
- unheaviness,
- up,
- upbeat,
- upbuoying,
- upcast,
- upclimb,
- upgo,
- upgrade,
- upheaval,
- uphill,
- uplift,
- uplifting,
- upping,
- uprearing,
- uprise,
- uprising,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- upthrow,
- upthrust,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- upward mobility,
- upward motion,
- verticalness,
- vise,
- volatility,
- waxing,
- weightlessness,
- widening,
- yeastiness