Increscent

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Showing a progressively larger lighted surface; waxing: the increscent moon.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A crescent oriented with horns turned to dexter (pointing left).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.
  • adj. Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling: specifically applied to the moon.
    • Word Usage
    "For I assure you that the horror I then conceived for those pale botanical specimens in their pestiferous and increscent abundance, exceeded what words can describe."
    Antonym
    decrescent   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    increasing    growing    augmenting    swelling    enlarging   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games. The OFFICIAL SCRABBLE PLAYERS DICTIONARY, THE OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT AND CLUB WORD LIST, and associated word lists are properties owned by Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada, and are used with permission.