Dictionary Entry
ascendant
ascendant is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Ascent; height; elevation. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Ascent; height; elevation.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
- 4noun
An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.
- 5adjective
Alt. of Ascendent
- 6noun
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
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- 7noun
position or state of being dominant or in control
"that idea was in the ascendant"
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- 8adjective
most powerful or important or influential
"the economically ascendant class"
"D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
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- 9adjective
tending or directed upward- John Ruskin
"rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"
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