soaring

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: soar=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

soaring, a. & n. 

 a. & n. from Soar.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

soaring

Brownian movement, Olympian, advance, aerial, aeronautics, air service, airline, airy, altitudinous, anabasis, angular motion, ascending, ascension, ascent, aspiring, astronautics, august, aviation, axial, axial motion, back, back-flowing, backflowing, backing, backward, backward motion, ballooning, blind flying, career, clamber, climb, climbing, cloud-seeding, colossal, commercial aviation, contact flying, course, cruising, current, descending, descent, distinguished, dominating, down-trending, downward, downward motion, drift, driftage, drifting, ebbing, elevated, elevation, eminent, escalade, ethereal, exalted, famous, flight, flow, flowing, fluent, flux, flying, forward motion, fountain, general aviation, gliding, glorious, godlike, going, gush, gyrational, gyratory, gyring up, haughty, heroic, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, increase, jet, jump, lauded, leap, levitation, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent, majestic, monumental, mount, mounting, noble, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, passage, passing, pilotage, plunging, progress, progressive, prominent, radial motion, random motion, reflowing, refluence, refluent, reflux, regression, regressive, renowned, retrogression, retrogressive, rise, rising, rocketing up, rotary, rotational, rotatory, run, running, rush, rushing, sailing, sailplaning, saltation, set, shooting up, sideward, sideward motion, sinking, skyscraping, spiring, spout, spring, spurt, steep, sternway, stream, streaming, sublime, subsiding, superb, superlative, supernal, surge, takeoff, taking off, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, traject, trajet, trend, up-trending, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, uplifted, upping, upreared, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upward, upward motion, vault, winging, zooming

ROGET THESAURUS

soaring

Height

N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.