Rising

Quick meaning: Rising is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of rise.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of rise.

More Meanings

1. Rebellion.
2. The act of something that rises.
3. (US, dated) A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
4. Going up, physically or in quantity, rate, etc.
5. Planned or destined to advance to an academic grade in the near future, after having completed the previous grade; soon-to-be.
6. (US, slang, dated) More than; exceeding; upwards of.
7. (heraldry, of a bird) Having its wings raised (either addorsed or sometimes displayed), standing on the tips of its feet as if about to take flight, typically depicted in profile.

Example Sentences

the risings and fallings of a thermometer

Affairs in Canada, with a population that had grown to rising ten thousand, seemed to be going from worse to worse.

Residential colleges at Princeton are “really central to your identity on campus,” especially as a freshman, Ms. Chaffers, who is a rising junior, said in an interview on Saturday.

Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.

Word Forms

• risings

Synonyms for rising

Depending on context, synonyms include rousant, surgerant, high, rise, revolt, insurrection.

Antonyms for rising

Common opposites include falling, fall, setting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ascent, ascending, ascension, up, uphill, heightening.

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