ascent

ascent is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
2. The way or means by which one ascends.
3. An eminence, hill, or high place.
4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.
5. noun. the act of changing location in an upward direction

   Synonyms: ascending, ascension, rise

6. noun. a movement upward

   "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"

   Synonyms: ascension, rise, rising

7. noun. an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

   "the car couldn't make it up the rise"

   Synonyms: acclivity, climb, raise, rise, upgrade

Synonyms

ascending, ascension, rise, rising, acclivity, climb, raise, upgrade

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ascent:

casten, centas, enacts, secant, stance

Common word forms

ascents

Words from these letters

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