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adjective
Advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status
Synonyms: growing, increasing, climbing, ascending, mounting, soaring, skyrocketing, advancing, on-the-rise, on the increase, spiraling, going-up, moving up, surging up, sloping upward, slanting up, taking-off, going aloft, gaining altitude, emerging, acclivitous, upsurging, in the ascendant, up-and-coming, upswinging, on the upswing, upcoming, scandent, levitating, topping-out, heading for the stars, uphill
Antonyms: falling
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noun
The act of rising or moving upward
Synonyms: rise, ascension, ascent, climbing, rebellion, gaining altitude, insurrection, revolt, uprising
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verb
Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
Synonyms: springing, issuing, emanating, stemming, climbing, arising, proceeding, originating, mounting, flowing, deriving, coming, waxing, rebelling
Antonyms: slumping, worsening, dropping, falling, declining
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verb
Move to a better position in life or to a better job; ""She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
Synonyms: revolting, ascending, bulging, inflating, rebelling
Antonyms: kowtowing, cooperating, complying
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verb
Increase in value or to a higher point
Synonyms: climbing, jumping, mounting, ascending, advancing
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verb
Rise to one's feet
Synonyms: uprising, arising, awaking, piling
Antonyms: descending, falling, lowering, dropping
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verb
To improve one's station
Synonyms: thriving, succeeding, progressing, flourishing, prospering, advancing, arriving
Antonyms: deteriorating, failing
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verb
Rise up
Synonyms: waxing, swelling, multiplying, mounting, increasing, growing, extending, expanding, escalating, rearing, proving, distending, doubling, upsurging, enlarging, raising, advancing, soaring, building, accelerating, magnifying, inflating, enhancing, heightening, spreading, boosting, intensifying, amplifying, aggrandizing, lifting
Antonyms: lessening, receding, descending, contracting, decreasing, lowering, declining
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verb
Come up, of celestial bodies
Synonyms: uprising, standing, ascending, resurrecting, arising
Antonyms: setting, retiring
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verb
Come into existence; take on form or shape
Synonyms: soaring, lifting, uprising, mounting, growing, climbing, originating, surging, ascending, arising, towering, welling, transcending, thriving, swelling, succeeding, surmounting, rearing, stemming, starting, standing, springing, spiralling, skyrocketing, revolting, sprouting, rebelling, reaching, raising, prospering, proceeding, overcoming, multiplying, looming, developing, intensifying, rocketing, increasing, hilling, hiking, heaving, grading, gaining, flowing, flourishing, enlarging, emerging, emanating, elevating, boosting, beginning, scaling, awaking, attaining, aspiring, appearing, amounting, advancing
Antonyms: waning, dropping, falling
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verb
Become more extreme
Synonyms: heightening
Antonyms: receding, regressing, declining