Ascension, n. Rising, rise, ascent.
Ascent, n. 1. Rising, rise, ascension.
2. Acclivity, rising ground.
3. Elevation, height, eminence.
Ascertain, v. a. 1. Determine, establish, fix, settle, define, certify, verify, make certain, make sure.
2. Discover, find out, get at.
Ascetic, a. Austere, rigid, severe, stern, puritanical, uncompromising.
Ascetic, n. Recluse, hermit, anchoret, solitary, solitaire, eremite.
Asceticism, n. Austerity, mortification.
Ascribable, a. Attributable, traceable, chargeable, imputable, referrible, owing.
Ascribe, v. a. Attribute, assign, refer, charge, lay, impute.
As good as, 1. Of equal goodness with.
2. The same as, equivalent to, equal to, tantamount to.
Ashamed, a. Abashed, confused, put out of countenance.
Ash-colored, a. Ashy, pale, gray.
Ashes, n. pl. 1. Remains (of what is burnt).
2. Corpse, remains (of the human body), dead body.
Ashore, ad. 1. On shore, on land.
2. To the shore.
3. Aground, not afloat.
4. Stranded, wrecked, cast away.
Ashy, a. 1. Cineritious, cinereous, favillous, like ashes.
2. Pale, pallid, whitish, gray, ash-colored.
Asiatic cholera, Spasmodic cholera, cholera asphyxia.
Aside, ad. 1. Laterally, to the side, to one side.
2. Out of the straight course, out of the true course.
3. Apart, separately, away.
As if, As though.
As it were, So to speak, so it would seem, so it seems.
Ask, v. a. 1. Question, interrogate, inquire of, put the question to.
2. Request, solicit, petition, beseech, implore, supplicate, crave, beg, desire, entreat, pray for, prefer a petition for, make application for.
3. Require, claim, demand, challenge, call for.
Ask, v. n. 1. Petition, beg, pray.
2. Inquire, question, make inquiry.
Askance, ad. Obliquely, sidewise, askew, aslant, on one side.
Askant, ad. Obliquely, sidewise, askew, aslant, on one side.
Asker, n. Inquirer, petitioner, solicitor, solicitant.
Askew, ad. Awry, aside, askance, aslant, asquint, to one side.
Aslant, ad. Obliquely, askance, askew, aslope.
Aslant, a. Oblique, inclined, slanting.
Asleep, a. Sleeping, fast asleep, in a sound sleep, in the arms of Morpheus, gone to the land of Nod.
Aslope, ad. Aslant, obliquely.
Aspect, n. 1. Air, mien, countenance, expression, visage, feature.
2. Appearance, view, light, condition, situation, position, state, attitude, posture.
3. Direction, bearing, relative position.
Asperity, n. 1. Roughness, ruggedness, unevenness.
2. Acrimony, tartness, sourness, sharpness, causticity, corrosiveness.
3. Harshness, moroseness, sternness, severity, virulence, crabbedness, bitterness, churlishness, acerbity, sullenness, ill temper, bad blood.
Asperse, v. a. Vilify, slander, calumniate, traduce, defame, scandalize, malign, revile, lampoon, backbite, abuse, disparage, blacken, blemish, slur, vituperate, run down, detract from, speak ill of, accuse falsely, damn with faint praise.
Aspersion, n. Calumny, detraction, slander, defamation, abuse, vituperation, obloquy, reproach, scandal, backbiting, reviling, gainsaying, traducing.
Asphalt, n. Native bitumen, mineral pitch, Jew's pitch.
Asphaltum, n. Native bitumen, mineral pitch, Jew's pitch.
Aspirant, n. 1. Aspirer, ambitious person.
2. Candidate, solicitor, solicitant, competitor.
Aspirant, a. Aspiring, ambitious.
Aspirate, a. Aspirated, toneless, unintonated, atonic, surd, pronounced with a simple breathing, not vocal, without vocality, without tone.
