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Defenition of the word ascendent

    • Defenition of the word ascendent

      • someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote that a grandparent)
      • position or state of being dominant or in control: "that idea was in the ascendant"
      • tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
      • most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
      • someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
      • position or state of being dominant or in control; "that idea was in the ascendant"
      • position or state of being dominant or in control
      • most powerful or important or influential
      • tending or directed upward

    Synonyms for the word ascendent

      • ancestor
      • antecedent
      • ascendant
      • ascensive
      • dominating
      • root
      • upward

    Similar words in the ascendent

      • ascending
      • ascending(a)
      • dominant

    Hyponyms for the word ascendent

      • ancestress
      • father
      • forbear
      • forebear
      • forefather
      • foremother
      • primogenitor
      • progenitor
      • sire

    Hypernyms for the word ascendent

      • ascendance
      • ascendancy
      • ascendence
      • ascendency
      • control
      • dominance
      • relation
      • relative

    Antonyms for the word ascendent

      • descendant
      • descendent

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