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1. Advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status
   "a rising trend"; "a rising market"
    
2. Sloping upward
   - acclivitous, uphill
    
3. Coming to maturity
   "the rising generation";
   - emerging
    
4. Newly come into prominence
   "a rising young politician"

1. A movement upward; rise above the ground
   - rise, ascent, ascension
    
2. Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
   "military security has been stepped up since the recent rising";
   - rebellion, insurrection, revolt, uprising

1. Move upward
   "The fog rose";
   - lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise
    
2. Increase in value or to a higher point
   "the value of our house rose sharply last year";
   - go up, climb
    
3. Get on one's feet from a sitting or kneeling position
   "The audience rose and applauded";
   - arise, uprise, get up, stand up
    
4. Become or appear high or tall
   "The building rose before them";
   - lift, rear
    
5. Come to the surface
   - surface, come up, rise up
    
6. Come into existence; take on form or shape
   "A new religious movement rose in that country";
   - originate, arise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
    
7. Move to a better position in life or to a better job
   - ascend, move up
    
8. Go up or advance
   "Sales were rising after prices were lowered";
   - wax, mount, climb
    
9. Become more extreme
   "The tension rose";
   - heighten
    
10. Get up and out of bed
    "They rose early";
    - get up, turn out, arise, uprise
     
11. Increase in rank or status
    "Her new novel rose high on the bestseller list";
    - jump, climb up
     
12. Become heartened or elated
    "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"
     
13. Exert oneself to meet a challenge
    "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion"
     
14. Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
    - rebel, arise, rise up
     
15. Increase in volume
    "the dough rose slowly in the warm room";
    - prove
     
16. (astronomy) come up, of celestial bodies
    "The sun also rises";
    - come up, uprise, ascend
     
17. Return from the dead
    "The dead are to rise";
    - resurrect, uprise

Derived forms: risings

See also: ascending, come up, future, improving, new, up

Type of: appear, ascend, battle, become, change, change of location, change posture, conflict, dissent, go, go up, grow, increase, locomote, look, move, protest, resist, return, seem, struggle, tackle, take on, travel, undertake

Antonym: falling, lie, sit

Encyclopedia: Rising, John