vaulting as a noun: - 1
- 2
as an adjective: - 1
vaulting
noun
1 vaulting
architecture A vaulted structure.
2 vaulting
A light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down.
synonym: curvet.
Dutch: bokkensprong, bokkesprong, capriool
adjective
1 vaulting
Revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights:
— Vaulting ambition.
synonym: overreaching.
Roget 33:
superior,
greater,
major,
higher;
exceeding
etc.
v.;
great
etc.
31;
distinguished,
ultra [Lat.];
vaulting;
more than a match for.
supreme,
greatest,
utmost,
paramount,
preeminent,
foremost,
crowning;
first-rate
etc.
(important)
642,
(excellent)
648;
unrivaled peerless,
matchless;
none such,
second to none,
sans pareil [Fr.];
unparagoned†,
unparalleled,
unequalled,
unapproached†,
unsurpassed;
superlative,
inimitable facile princeps [Lat.],
incomparable,
sovereign,
without parallel,
nulli secundus [Lat.],
ne plus ultra [Lat.];
beyond compare,
beyond comparison;
culminating
etc.
(topmost)
210;
transcendent,
transcendental;
plus royaliste que le Roi [Fr.],
more catholic than the Pope increased
etc.
(added to)
35;
enlarged
etc.
(expanded)
194.
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Roget 865:
desirous;
desiring
etc.
v.;
inclined
etc.
(willing)
602;
partial to;
fain,
wishful,
optative†;
anxious,
wistful,
curious;
at a loss for,
sedulous,
solicitous.
craving,
hungry,
sharp-set,
peckish†,
ravening,
with an empty stomach,
esurient†,
lickerish†,
thirsty,
athirst,
parched with thirst,
pinched with hunger,
famished,
dry,
drouthy†;
hungry as a hunter,
hungry as a hawk,
hungry as a horse,
hungry as a church mouse,
hungry as a bear.
[excessively desirous]
greedy
etc.
817.1.
unsatisfied,
unsated,
unslaked;
unsaturated.
eager,
avid,
keen;
burning,
fervent,
ardent;
agog;
all agog;
breathless;
impatient
etc.
(impetuous)
825;
bent on,
intent on,
set on,
bent upon,
intent upon,
set upon;
mad after,
enrage,
rabid,
dying for,
devoured by desire.
aspiring,
ambitious,
vaulting,
skyaspiring,
high-reaching.
desirable;
desired
etc.
v.;
in demand;
pleasing
etc.
(giving pleasure)
829;
appetizing,
appetible†;
tantalizing.
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Moby thesaurus: aduncity, apse, aquilinity, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, arching, archway, arcuation, aspiring, bouncing, bounding, camber, capering, ceilinged roof, circularity, concameration, concavity, concha, convexity, convolution, cove, crookedness, cupola, curvation, curvature, curving, curvity, decurvation, decurvature, dome, emulous, enthusiastic, excurvation, excurvature, geodesic dome, hookedness, hopping, hurdle race, hurdling, igloo, incurvation, incurvature, incurvity, jumping, keystone, leaping, ogive, pole vaulting, prancing, recurvation, recurvature, recurvity, rondure, rotundity, saltation, sinuosity, sinuousness, skewback, skipping, span, springing, steeplechase, the hurdles, timber topping, tortuosity, tortuousness, vault, voussoir ... show more.
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