ascending

Meaning of ascending

verb
  1. To move upward, to fly, to soar.
    He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
  2. To slope in an upward direction.
  3. To go up.
    You ascend the stairs and take a right.
  4. To succeed.
    She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
  5. To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
  6. To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
    Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
  7. To become higher in pitch.
noun
  1. An ascent.
    continual ascendings and descendings
adjective
  1. (of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is greater than or equal to the previous element.
    Please arrange these numbers in an ascending order.
  2. That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.
    We used an ascending sort.

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Hyphenation of ascending

as-cend-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • ascending is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

ascending synonyms

Meaning rise:

rise, ascent, ascension

ascending antonyms

Meaning :

descend, descending

Translation of ascending

Words that rhyme with ascending

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