ascendant

ascendant has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. Ascent; height; elevation.
• n.. 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.
• n.. Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
• n.. An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.
• a.. Alt. of Ascendent
• n.. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
• n.. position or state of being dominant or in control; "that idea was in the ascendant"
• a.. most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
• a.. tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin