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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. tending or directed upward;
- Example: "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
[syn: ascendant, ascendent, ascensive]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ascensive \As*cen"sive\, a. [See Ascend.]
   1. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise. --Owen.
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   2. (Gram.) Augmentative; intensive. --Ellicott.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ascensive
    adj 1: tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant
           strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin [syn:
           ascendant, ascendent, ascensive]