| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase, improvement |
Synonyms: |
acceleration, accession, accretion, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, ascent, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, climb, distention, doubling, enlargement, growth, heightening, hike, increment, inflation, intensification, intensifying, multiplication, piling up, progress, promotion, raise, stacking up, step-up, surge, swell, upgrade, upsurge, upswing, upturn, waxing |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, drop, fall, slump, worsening |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement upward; upward slope |
Synonyms: |
acclivity, ascension, ascent, climb, elevation, eminence, highland, hillock, incline, lift, mount, rising, rising ground, soaring, surge, towering, upland, upsurge |
Antonyms: |
decline, drop, fall |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get up; ascend |
Synonyms: |
arise, arouse, aspire, awake, be erect, be located, be situated, blast off, bob up, climb, come up, get out of bed, get steeper, get to one's feet, go uphill, grow, have foundation, levitate, lift, mount, move up, pile out, push up, reach up, rise and shine, rise up, rocket, roll out, rouse, scale, sit up, slope upwards, soar, sprout, stand up, straighten up, surface, surge, surmount, sweep upward, tower, turn out, up*, upspring |
Antonyms: |
descend, lower |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, grow |
Synonyms: |
accelerate, add to, advance, aggravate, arise, ascend, augment, billow, build, bulge, climb, deepen, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, expand, go through the roof, go up, heighten, improve, inflate, intensate, intensify, levitate, lift, magnify, mount, move up, multiply, perk up, pick up, pile up, raise, redouble, rouse, soar, speed up, spread, stack up, swell, take off, upsurge, wax |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, lessen, lower, recede |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | progress in business |
Synonyms: |
advance, be elevated, be promoted, better oneself, climb the ladder, flourish, get on, get somewhere, go places, progress, prosper, succeed, thrive, work one's way up |
Antonyms: |
decline, drop, fall, slump |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become apparent |
Synonyms: |
appear, arise, befall, begin, betide, chance, come, crop up, dawn, derive, develop, emanate, emerge, eventuate, fall out, flare up, flow, go, happen, head, issue, loom, occur, originate, proceed, spring, stem, surface, transpire, turn up |
Antonyms: |
decline, recede, regress |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rebel |
Synonyms: |
insurrect, mount, mutiny, resist, revolt, riot, take up arms |
Antonyms: |
comply, cooperate, give in, go along |
| Main Entry: | accession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that augments, adds to |
Synonyms: |
accretion, addition, augmentation, enlargement, extension, increase, increment, raise, rise |
| Main Entry: | accretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gradual growth, addition |
Synonyms: |
accession, accumulation, augmentation, build-up, increase, increment, raise, rise |
Antonyms: |
decrease, deduction, shrinkage |
| Main Entry: | addition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something conjoined to or enlargement of something |
Synonyms: |
accession, accessory, accretion, accrual, addendum, additive, adjunct, aggrandizement, annex, appendage, appendix, attachment, augmentation, bonus, boost, commission, dividend, enhancement, enlargement, expansion, extension, extra, gain, hike, increase, increment, option, profit, raise, reinforcement, rise, supplement, wing |
| Notes: | an addition is something that, when added, serves simply to augment or extend that to which it has been added, leaving the character of the original unchanged; an addendum forms a separate distinguishable portion of the whole and it first meant 'a thing to be added' |