ASCENDANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ascendant mean? 

• ASCENDANT (noun)
  The noun ASCENDANT has 2 senses:

1. position or state of being dominant or in control

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

  Familiarity information: ASCENDANT used as a noun is rare.

• ASCENDANT (adjective)
  The adjective ASCENDANT has 2 senses:

1. tending or directed upward

2. most powerful or important or influential

  Familiarity information: ASCENDANT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASCENDANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position or state of being dominant or in control

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ascendant; ascendent

Context example:

that idea was in the ascendant

Hypernyms ("ascendant" is a kind of...):

ascendance; ascendancy; ascendence; ascendency; control; dominance (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another)

Derivation:

ascendant (most powerful or important or influential)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ancestor; antecedent; ascendant; ascendent; root

Hypernyms ("ascendant" is a kind of...):

relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ascendant"):

ancestress (a woman ancestor)

forbear; forebear (a person from whom you are descended)

father; forefather; sire (the founder of a family)

foremother (a woman ancestor)

primogenitor; progenitor (an ancestor in the direct line)

• ASCENDANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending or directed upward

Synonyms:

ascendant; ascendent; ascensive

Context example:

rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage

Similar:

ascending (moving or going or growing upward)

Derivation:

ascend (travel up)

ascend (slope upwards)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Most powerful or important or influential

Synonyms:

ascendant; ascendent; dominating

Context example:

D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe

Similar:

dominant (exercising influence or control)

Derivation:

ascendance; ascendancy (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another)

ascendant (position or state of being dominant or in control)

 Context examples 

If your birthday falls within five days of June 10, you will feel this full moon directly, and the same is true if you have Gemini rising at 20 degrees or an important planet in the first house at that degree, or either your ascendant or a planet within five degrees of 20 degrees.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)