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ascensive

/əˈsɛnsɪv/

ascensive adjective: rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.

Adjective

ascensive (comparative more ascensive, superlative most ascensive)

  1. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
    • Had I been guided in this ascensive survey of the dental system by the general perfection of the species , I must have ended with that of Man1840-1845, Richard Owen, Odontography
  2. Augmentative; intensive.
    • […] it seems, however, highly probable that this is due rather to non-observance of the true ascensive force of the particle than to any real absence in the original MSS.1887, Charles John Ellicott, St Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians: With a Critical and Grammatical Commentary

Forms of ascensive

comparativemore ascensive
superlativemost ascensive

Origin of ascensive

See ascend.

Questions about ascensive

What does ascensive mean?
Ascensive means rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
What part of speech is ascensive?
Ascensive is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ascensive?
Ascensive is pronounced /əˈsɛnsɪv/.

Words near ascensive in the dictionary

  1. ascensionist
  2. ascensionists
  3. ascensions
  4. Ascensiontide
  5. Ascensiontides
  6. ascensive
  7. ascensor
  8. ascensors
  9. ascent
  10. ascent vehicle
  11. ascent vehicles

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