Australian English Meaning of ascendant

ascendant

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Definitions and Meaning of ascendant in English

Wordnet

ascendant (n)

position or state of being dominant or in control

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

Wordnet

ascendant (s)

tending or directed upward

most powerful or important or influential

Webster

ascendant (n.)

Ascent; height; elevation.

The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.

Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.

An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.

Webster

ascendant (a.)

Alt. of Ascendent

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ascendant

position or state of being dominant or in control, someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent), tending or directed upward,

ascending,Soaring,airy,Elevated,high,Nosebleed,Overhead,raised,topmost,upheld

depressed,descending,down,dropped,Fallen,down-to-earth,Low,lowered,sunk,Descendant

ascendancy => ascendancy, ascendance => ascendance, ascendable => ascendable, ascend => Ascend, ascaris lumbricoides => Ascaris lumbricoides,