vaulting

1. 1.

   revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights

   “vaulting ambition”

   Synonymsoverreaching

   Similarbold

Other forms of vaulting

plural

vaultings·

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 vaulting

What does vaulting mean?

vaulting means "(architecture) a vaulted structure". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vaulting?

vaulting has 2 syllables: vaul-ting. The stress falls on "vaul". In IPA it is /ˈvɔltɪŋ/.

What is another word for vaulting?

Close synonyms include curvet, overreaching. 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.

Is vaulting a common word?

vaulting 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.