ascendent

Other forms: ascendents

Definitions of ascendent

1. adjective

   tending or directed upward
   synonyms: ascendant, ascensive

   ascending

   moving or going or growing upward
2. adjective

   most powerful or important or influential
   synonyms: ascendant, dominating

   dominant

   exercising influence or control
3. noun

   position or state of being dominant or in control
   synonyms: ascendant

   type of:

   ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance

   the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
4. noun

   someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
   synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root

   types:

   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

   genitor

   a natural father or mother

   grandparent

   a parent of your father or mother

   great grandparent

   a parent of your grandparent

   patriarch

   any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

   type of:

   relation, relative

   a person related by blood or marriage