ascent
noun
1 ascent
An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
synonyms: acclivity, climb, raise, rise, upgrade.
Roget 658:
improvement;
amelioration,
melioration;
betterment;
mend,
amendment,
emendation;
mending
etc.
v.;
advancement;
advance
etc.
(progress)
282;
ascent
etc.
305;
promotion,
preferment;
elevation
etc.
307;
increase
etc.
35;
cultivation,
civilization;
culture,
march of intellect;
menticulture†;
race-culture,
eugenics.
reform,
reformation;
revision,
radical reform;
second thoughts,
correction,
limoe labor [Lat.],
refinement,
elaboration;
purification
etc.
652;
oxidation;
repair
etc.
(restoration)
660;
recovery
etc.
660.
revise,
new edition.
reformer,
radical.
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Roget 217:
obliquity,
inclination,
slope,
slant,
crookedness
etc.
adj.;
slopeness†;
leaning
etc.
v.;
bevel,
tilt;
bias,
list,
twist,
swag,
cant,
lurch;
distortion
etc.
243;
bend
etc.
(curve)
245;
tower of Pisa.
acclivity,
rise,
ascent,
gradient,
khudd†,
rising ground,
hill,
bank,
declivity,
downhill,
dip,
fall,
devexity†;
gentle slope,
rapid slope,
easy ascent,
easy descent;
shelving beach;
talus;
monagne Russe [Fr.];
facilis descensus averni [Lat.].
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Roget 35:
increase,
augmentation,
enlargement,
extension;
dilatation
etc.
(expansion)
194;
increment,
accretion;
accession
etc.
37;
development,
growth;
aggrandizement,
aggravation;
rise;
ascent
etc.
305;
exaggeration exacerbation;
spread
etc.
(dispersion)
73;
flood tide;
gain,
produce,
product,
profit.
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Roget 873:
distinction,
mark,
name,
figure;
repute,
reputation;
good repute,
high repute;
note,
notability,
notoriety,
eclat,
the bubble reputation"
[As You Like It],
vogue,
celebrity;
fame,
famousness;
renown;
popularity,
aura popularis [Lat.];
approbation
etc.
931;
credit,
succes d'estime [Fr.],
prestige,
talk of the town;
name to conjure with.
glory,
honor;
luster
etc.
(light)
420;
illustriousness
etc.
adj..
account,
regard,
respect;
reputableness
etc.
adj.†;
respectability
etc.
(probity)
939;
good name,
good report;
fair name.
dignity;
stateliness
etc.
adj.;
solemnity,
grandeur,
splendor,
nobility,
majesty,
sublimity.
rank,
standing,
brevet rank,
precedence,
pas,
station,
place,
status;
position,
position in society;
order,
degree,
baccalaureate,
locus standi [Lat.],
caste,
condition.
greatness
etc.
adj.;
eminence;
height
etc.
206;
importance
etc.
642;
preeminence,
supereminence;
high mightiness,
primacy;
top of the ladder,
top of the tree.
elevation;
ascent
etc.
305;
superaltation†,
exaltation;
dignification†,
aggrandizement.
dedication,
consecration,
enthronement,
canonization,
celebration,
enshrinement,
glorification.
hero,
man of mark,
great card,
celebrity,
worthy,
lion,
rara avis [Lat.],
notability,
somebody;
classman†;
man of rank
etc.
(nobleman)
875;
pillar of the state,
pillar of the church,
pillar of the community.
chief
etc.
(master)
745;
first fiddle
etc.
(proficient)
700;
cynosure,
mirror;
flower,
pink,
pearl;
paragon
etc.
(perfection)
650;
choice and master spirits of the age;
elite;
star,
sun,
constellation,
galaxy.
ornament,
honor,
feather in one's cap,
halo,
aureole,
nimbus;
halo of glory,
blaze of glory,
blushing honors;
laurels
etc.
(trophy)
733.
memory,
posthumous fame,
niche in the temple of fame;
immortality,
immortal name;
magni nominis umbra [Lat.]
[Lucan].
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Dutch: klim, helling
2 ascent
3 ascent
The act of changing location in an upward direction.
synonyms: ascending, ascension, rise.
Dutch: beklimming, bestijging, Hemelvaart, hemelvaart, opklimming, opkomst, opstijgen, stijging
Moby thesaurus: Brownian movement, Great Leap Forward, 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, 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, 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 ... show more.
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