ascending

1. 1.

   moving or going or growing upward

   “the ascending plane”

   “the ascending staircase”

   “the ascending stems of chickweed”

   Antonymsdescending

   Similaracclivitousascendantassurgentscandenthighflyingup

Other forms of ascending

plural

ascendings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ascending

What does ascending mean?

ascending means "the act of changing location in an upward direction". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ascending?

ascending has 3 syllables: a-scen-ding. The stress falls on "scen". In IPA it is /əˈsɛndɪŋ/.

What is another word for ascending?

Close synonyms include rise, ascent, ascension. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of ascending?

The recorded antonyms are descending.

Is ascending a common word?

ascending is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ascending?

3 words rhyme with ascending. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.