Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Ascent (Motion upwards)

Nouns
  • ascent, ascension
  • rising etc. Leap
  • acclivity, hill etc. Obliquity
  • flight of steps, flight of stairs
  • ladder rocket, lark
  • sky rocket, sky lark
  • Alpine Club.
Verbs
  • ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise
  • go up, get up, work one's way up, start up
  • shoot up, go into orbit
  • float up
  • bubble up
  • aspire. climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount
  • shin, shinny, shinney
  • scale, scale the heights. [cause to go up] raise, elevate etc. Elevation. go aloft, fly aloft
  • tower, soar, take off
  • spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards
  • hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge
  • leap etc. Leap.
Adjectives
  • rising etc. v.. scandent, buoyant
  • supernatant, superfluitant
  • excelsior.
Adverbs
  • uphill.