ascendant English

Meaning ascendant meaning

What does ascendant mean?

ascendant

— adjective tending or directed upward rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage — John Ruskin

— noun position or state of being dominant or in control that idea was in the ascendant

— adjective (= dominating) most powerful or important or influential the economically ascendant class D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe

— noun (= ancestor) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

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ascendent

ascending

ascensive

ancestor

rising

dominant

upper

top

surface

supreme

superior

super

senior

root

premium

predominant

overwhelming

forefather

dominating

antecedent

above

uphill

supremacy

superiority

sunrise

sovereign

scandent

ruling

progenitor

primogenitor

prevalent

preponderant

predominance

predecessors

parent

overlord

influence

increasing

impact

forerunner

foregoer

father

emerging

emergent

eldmother

eldfather

assurgent

acclivitous