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dominant
Being an animal that occupies the highest position in a social hierarchy and has the greatest access to resources such as food and a mate or mates. Social dominance is gained and maintained through factors such as size and aggressiveness.
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  1. Being an animal that occupies the highest position in a social hierarchy and has the greatest access to resources such as food and a mate or mates. Social dominance is gained and maintained through factors such as size and aggressiveness.
  2. Most abundant or conspicuous; predominant:
  3. Exercising authority or influence; dominating; ruling; prevailing
predominant
Common or widespread; prevalent
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  1. Common or widespread; prevalent
  2. Most frequent, noticeable, etc.; prevailing; preponderant
  3. Having ascendancy, authority, or dominating influence over others; superior
prepotent
(Genetics) Of, having, or exhibiting prepotency.
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  1. (Genetics) Of, having, or exhibiting prepotency.
  2. Greater in power, influence, or force than another or others; predominant.
  3. Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.
prevailing
Prevalent, common, widespread.
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  1. Prevalent, common, widespread.
  2. Blowing usually or most frequently from a given direction:
  3. Superior in strength, influence, or effect
regnant
Prevalent; widespread
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  1. Prevalent; widespread
  2. Of greatest power; predominant
  3. Predominant.
ruling
Exercising control or authority:
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  1. Exercising control or authority:
  2. Predominant:
  3. That rules; predominant; chief; reigning; controlling.
supreme
Final; ultimate
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  1. Final; ultimate
  2. Greatest in power, authority, or rank; paramount or dominant.
  3. Ultimate; final:
ancestor
Anything regarded as a precursor or forerunner of a later thing
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  1. Anything regarded as a precursor or forerunner of a later thing
  2. One, such as a parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, who precedes another in lineage.
  3. A forerunner or predecessor.
antecedent
One that precedes another.
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  1. One that precedes another.
  2. (Grammar) The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to, as the children in The teacher asked the children where they were going.
  3. (Gram.) The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers
father
A man who has begotten a child; esp., a man as he is related to his child or children
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  1. A man who has begotten a child; esp., a man as he is related to his child or children
  2. A man who serves or is thought of as a protector:
  3. An adoptive father
forebear
An ancestor
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  1. An ancestor
  2. A person from whom one is descended; an ancestor.
forefather
Ancestor .
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  1. Ancestor .
  2. Cultural ancestor; one who originated an idea or tradition.
  3. A person who is from an earlier time and has originated or contributed to a common tradition shared by a particular group.
foremother
A female ancestor
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  1. A female ancestor
  2. A woman ancestor.
mother
A woman who gives birth to a child.
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  1. A woman who gives birth to a child.
  2. A woman whose egg unites with a sperm, producing an embryo.
  3. (Short for) mother of vinegar
parent
A source or cause; an origin:
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  1. A source or cause; an origin:
  2. A female person whose egg unites with a sperm or a male person whose sperm unites with an egg, resulting in the conception of a child or the birth of a child.
  3. A mother or father
progenitor
A direct ancestor.
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  1. A direct ancestor.
  2. A forefather; ancestor in direct line
  3. A source from which something develops; originator or precursor
predecessor
Something that has been succeeded by another:
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  1. Something that has been succeeded by another:
  2. An ancestor; forefather
  3. One who precedes another in time, especially in holding an office or position.
Find another word for ascendant. In this page you can discover 20 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ascendant, like: dominant, predominant, prepotent, prevailing, regnant, ruling, supreme, ancestor, antecedent, father and forebear.

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.

  • At Vienna the war party was in the ascendant; the convention for disarmament had been signed, but so far from its being carried out, the reserves were actually called out on the 12th of April; and on the 23rd, before Cavours decision was known at Vienna, an Austrian ultimatum reached Turin, summoning Piedmont to disarm within three days on pain of invasion.

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