soaring
soaring Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Increasing rapidly in amount, value, level, or intensity.
"Many households struggled to adjust their monthly budgets to accommodate soaring energy costs."
Rising or reaching to a great or impressive height.
"Visitors stood in quiet admiration beneath the cathedral's soaring stone arches."
Expressing or inspiring lofty, elevated, or grand emotion and ambition.
"The symphony concluded with a soaring melody that brought the audience to its feet."
• noun
The sport or activity of flying in a heavier-than-air glider or sailplane without mechanical power, using rising air currents to maintain or gain altitude.
"The mountain valley is famous among aviation enthusiasts for its ideal thermal conditions for soaring."
• Rhymes for soaring
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from the verb 'soar', which entered Middle English via Old French 'essorer' (to fly up), ultimately from Vulgar Latin '*exaurare', meaning 'to expose to the air' (from Latin 'ex-', out, and 'aura', breeze).