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ascendant

English

  1. 🔊 most powerful or important or influential
    “the economically ascendant class”
  2. 🔊 tending or directed upward
    “rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage”
  3. 🔊 position or state of being dominant or in control
    “that idea was in the ascendant”
  4. 🔊 someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

Similar words

ancestor ascendent antecedent root ascendent ascendent dominating ascendent ascensive a cut above above absolute ahead anabatic antecedent ascendancy ascending ascensional ascensive at the head authoritarian authoritative authorized autocratic