ascendent

ascendent has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.
• a.. Rising; ascending.
• a.. Superior; surpassing; ruling.
• 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