Transcend: meaning, example and synonyms
Transcendv. To go beyond the ordinary limits or range of something; to surpass.
Example
The composer's late symphonies transcend the conventions of their era, blending folk melodies with harmonic experiments that contemporaries found bewildering.
- Part of speech
- verb
- Synonyms
- surpass, exceed, rise above, outstrip
- Antonyms
- fall short, remain within, lag behind
- Memory tip
- trans (across) + scend (climb): climb right over the limits.
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Check yourself: Transcend in context
Great works of literature often ______ the circumstances of their creation, speaking to readers in distant centuries and cultures as powerfully as to their first audiences.
Answer: transcend. Reaching readers far beyond their own time means such works go beyond their limits: transcend. Acquiesce (reluctantly agree), salvage (rescue from loss) and ascribe (attribute to a source) don't fit.
The mathematician's insight ______ the narrow problem she had set out to solve, opening an entirely new branch of geometry.
Answer: transcended. An insight that went far beyond its original problem transcended it. Acquiesced (reluctantly agree), ascribed (attribute to a source) and salvaged (rescue from loss) don't fit.