Word Meanings - ASPIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to

Additional info about word: ASPIRE

Etym: 1. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Pope. 2. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar. My own breath still foments the fire, Which flames as high as fancy can aspire. Waller.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASPIRE)

• Emulate
• Rival
• vie
• compete
• aspire
• Soar
• Rise
• mount
• tower
• ascend
• uprise

Related words: (words related to ASPIRE)

• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• RIVALESS
  A female rival. Richardson.
• MOUNTING
  1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• MOUNTANT
  Raised; high.
• TOWERED
  Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.
• ASCENDIBLE
  Capable of being ascended; climbable.
• ASPIRE
  Etym: 1. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to
• MOUNTEBANKISM
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• MOUNTEBANK
  1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
• MOUNT
  A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piété. (more info) montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. 1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding
• ASCENDING
  Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude , the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line , the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and
• MOUNTENAUNCE
  Mountance.
• TOWERING
  1. Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height. Pope. 2. Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing. A man agitated by a towering passion. Sir W. Scott.
• MOUNTER
  1. One who mounts. 2. An animal mounted; a monture.
• EMULATE
  Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. "A most emulate pride." Shak.
• MOUNTEBANKERY
  The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
• DEMOUNT
  To dismount.
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• REMOUNT
  To mount again.
• POLY-MOUNTAIN
  Same as Poly, n. The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.
• CORRIVAL
  A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion. Shak.