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ASCENDENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ascendent mean?
• ASCENDENT (noun)
The noun ASCENDENT has 2 senses:
1. position or state of being dominant or in control
2. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Familiarity information: ASCENDENT used as a noun is rare.
• ASCENDENT (adjective)
The adjective ASCENDENT has 2 senses:
2. most powerful or important or influential
Familiarity information: ASCENDENT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Position or state of being dominant or in control
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
ascendant; ascendent
Context example:
that idea was in the ascendant
Hypernyms ("ascendent" is a kind of...):
ascendance; ascendancy; ascendence; ascendency; control; dominance (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
ancestor; antecedent; ascendant; ascendent; root
Hypernyms ("ascendent" is a kind of...):
relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ascendent"):
ancestress (a woman ancestor)
forbear; forebear (a person from whom you are descended)
father; forefather; sire (the founder of a family)
foremother (a woman ancestor)
primogenitor; progenitor (an ancestor in the direct line)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending or directed upward
Synonyms:
ascendant; ascendent; ascensive
Context example:
rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage
Similar:
ascending (moving or going or growing upward)
Derivation:
ascend (come up, of celestial bodies)
ascend (slope upwards)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Most powerful or important or influential
Synonyms:
ascendant; ascendent; dominating
Context example:
D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe
Similar:
dominant (exercising influence or control)
Derivation:
ascendence; ascendency (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another)
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