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climbing

ADJECTIVE

arising

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ascending mounting rising soaring

STRONG

awakening waking waking up

WEAK

ascendant assurgent

ADJECTIVE

rising

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ascending growing increasing soaring spiraling surging

STRONG

advancing emerging mounting skyrocketing

WEAK

going up upsurging

ADJECTIVE

ambitious

Synonyms

STRONGEST

aggressive determined earnest energetic enthusiastic resourceful

WEAK

anxious ardent aspiring avid ball of fire bent upon come on come on strong designing desirous driving eager eager beaver enterprising fireball get up and go go-getter goal-oriented hard ball high-reaching hopeful hungry industrious inspired intent longing power-loving purposeful pushing pushy self-starting sharp soaring striving thirsty vaulting zealous

Antonyms

STRONGEST

lethargic unenthusiastic

WEAK

content easy facile fulfilled satisfied unassuming

ADJECTIVE

creeping

Synonyms

STRONGEST

spreading

STRONG

clinging horizontal prostrate reptilian trailing

WEAK

growing along the ground procumbent recumbent reptant serpentine stoloniferous vermicular vinelike

Antonyms

STRONG

upright vertical

WEAK

standing

ADJECTIVE

moving

Synonyms

STRONGEST

changing shifting

STRONG

advancing evolving flying going jumping progressing roaming roving running traversing walking

WEAK

motile movable nomadic portable unfixed unstable unsteadfast unsteady

Antonyms

WEAK

fixed immobile permanent stationary unmoving

ADJECTIVE

soaring

Synonyms

STRONGEST

lofty steep towering

STRONG

aerial ascending elevated flying

WEAK

going through the ceiling going through the roof high-reaching sky-high

Antonyms

STRONG

ground

ADJECTIVE

up-and-coming

Synonyms

STRONGEST

promising

WEAK

ambitious coming on strong determined eager enterprising get up and go go-getter high-reaching hungry soaring striving succeeding

ADJECTIVE

uphill

Synonyms

STRONGEST

skyward

STRONG

ascending mounting rising uprising

WEAK

acclivous sloping upward toward summit up

Antonyms

WEAK

downhill easy facile

NOUN

ascension

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ascent

STRONG

flying mounting rise rising scaling soaring

WEAK

escalating towering

Antonyms

WEAK

declension decline descendancy

NOUN

ascent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ascendance ascension climb

STRONG

ascending lift mounting rise rising scaling spring

WEAK

blastoff clambering launch takeoff

Antonyms

WEAK

descent landing lowering

NOUN

mountain climbing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

mountaineering rock climbing

WEAK

alpinism bouldering scaling

Example Sentences

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Homo floresiensis had a relatively small brain and retained physical adaptations for both climbing and upright walking, rather than being fully specialized for bipedal movement.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

Gasoline prices nationally averaged $4.51 a gallon on Sunday and could keep climbing into Memorial Day weekend, the starting gun to the busy summer driving season.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

By Sunday morning the rubbish strewn streets had been largely cleared up and traffic lights which were damaged by fans climbing on them were being repaired.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

But the latest numbers come during a week when inflation data showed the cost of living climbing to a three-year high as the Iran war standoff continues.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

People were climbing aboard while friends and relatives in the crowd wept or simply stared.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

climbing

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