Ascendant Synonyms

əsendənt
Having preeminent significance
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ascendent
  2. dominant
  3. predominant
  4. prepotent
  5. prevailing
  6. regnant
  7. ruling
  8. supreme
  9. prepollent
  10. scansorial
  11. dominating
  12. ascensive
  13. upgoing
  14. upsloping
A person from whom one is descended
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ancestor
  2. ascendent
  3. antecedent
  4. father
  5. forebear
  6. forefather
  7. foremother
  8. mother
  9. parent
  10. progenitor
  11. predecessor
  12. uphillward
  13. root
  14. upwith

Words Related to Ascendant

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Ascendant Sentence Examples

  • The former was in the ascendant during the early years of the reign.

  • Compelled by illness to leave the fleet, he found on his return to Dort that the Orange party were in the ascendant, and he and his brother were the objects of popular suspicion and hatred.

  • The stars are held, not only to prognosticate the future but also to influence it; the child born when Mars is in the ascendant will be war-like; Venus has to do with love; the sign of the Lion presides over places where wild beasts are found.

  • Although both abroad and at home his policy had generally embodied the wishes of the ascendant party in the state, Danby had never obtained the confidence of the nation.

  • During 1848,, when the extreme party was in the ascendant, Mommsen supported the monarchy against the Republicans.

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