Definitions for ascendant

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ascendant as·cend·ant

Spelling: [uh-sen-duh nt]

IPA: /əˈsɛn dənt/

Ascendant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 351 anagrams from letters in ascendant (aacdennst).

Definitions for ascendant

noun

1. a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence:
2. an ancestor; forebear.
3. Astrology. the point of the ecliptic or the sign and degree of the zodiac rising above the eastern horizon at the time of a birth or event: the cusp of the first house.

adjective

1. ascending; rising.
2. superior; predominant.
3. Botany. directed or curved upward.

Origin of ascendant

1350-1400; Middle English ascendent Latin ascendent- (stem of ascendēns) climbing up. See ascend, -ent,

Examples for ascendant

Whether the bad might have gained the ascendant, or the good triumphed, I know not.

The ascendant media that looked down on him has been pretty much destroyed.

Just last year, it seemed as if Hamas—with the Brotherhood dominating Egyptian electoral politics—might be ascendant.

Gay marriage is ascendant, driven by a rapidly shifting public opinion.

Still, anything was liable to happen when his unlucky star was in the ascendant.

Stressed as it may be, the Coalition of the ascendant is not disappearing.

Then his instinct of fair play in the game took the ascendant.

At any rate, for more than fifteen years of his reign the king was in the ascendant.

“Tex-Mex for decades was ascendant,” Arellano told the The Weekly Alibi in 2012.

Now it was the Bed Man, now Napoleon, who stood in the ascendant.