Ascendant
noun
Someone from whom you are descended, like a parent or grandparent.
His ascendants came from a long line of farmers.
Often appears as...
- direct ascendant
- line of ascendants
noun
A position of dominance or controlling influence.
The company is in the ascendant.
Often appears as...
- in the ascendant
- political ascendant
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Approving
adjective
Moving upward, increasing in power or influence.
An ascendant political party.
Often appears as...
- ascendant power
- ascendant trend
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Approving
noun
In astrology, the sign of the zodiac that is rising in the eastern horizon at the specific time and location of an event.
Aquarius is my ascendant sign.
Often appears as...
- ascendant sign
- ascendant in astrology
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Technical
noun
An ancestor in the direct line of descent.
She is the ascendant in this property dispute.
Often appears as...
- ascendant rights
- legal ascendant
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Formal, Neutral
Technical
noun
Someone from whom you are descended, like a parent or grandparent.
His ascendants came from a long line of farmers.
Often appears as...
- direct ascendant
- line of ascendants
noun
A position of dominance or controlling influence.
The company is in the ascendant.
Often appears as...
- in the ascendant
- political ascendant
Usage tips
Approving
adjective
Moving upward, increasing in power or influence.
An ascendant political party.
Often appears as...
- ascendant power
- ascendant trend
Usage tips
Approving
noun
In astrology, the sign of the zodiac that is rising in the eastern horizon at the specific time and location of an event.
Aquarius is my ascendant sign.
Often appears as...
- ascendant sign
- ascendant in astrology
Usage tips
Technical
noun
An ancestor in the direct line of descent.
She is the ascendant in this property dispute.
Often appears as...
- ascendant rights
- legal ascendant
Usage tips
Formal, Neutral
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/1Family Tree
Ascendant refers to someone in your direct family line, usually a generation or more above.
She traced back her ascendants to understand her lineage.
Pro Tip 1/1Family Tree
Ascendant refers to someone in your direct family line, usually a generation or more above.
She traced back her ascendants to understand her lineage.
Pro Tip 1/1Family Tree
Ascendant refers to someone in your direct family line, usually a generation or more above.
She traced back her ascendants to understand her lineage.
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Jimmy Carter: Why I...
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Jimmy Carter: Why I...
and these have been misinterpreted by men who are now in the ascendant positions in the synagogues and the churches and in the mosques. And they interpret these rules to make sure that women
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She Fears Her Tribe's...
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Junot Diaz
American Writer
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.
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Owen Jones
British Journalist
Donald Trump's mini-me, Boris Johnson, is in the ascendant: the Tory crown is his to lose. But his colleagues know he's an incompetent, a man who cares only for himself, who was fired twice - by a newspaper editor and a party leader - over allegations of dishonesty.
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Steve-O
British Celebrity
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.
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George Saunders
American Writer
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.
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James Surowiecki
American Journalist
Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.
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Joy Reid
American Journalist
When he ran for president in 2008, Mr. Obama was the candidate of the young and the demographically ascendant. He eventually attracted strong majorities among African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Americans and voters under 30.
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Krystal Ball
American Activist
Usually, I chalk Democratic dreams of a blue Texas to the same sort of thinking that brought us the inevitability of the coalition of the ascendant and 100% certainty that Donald Trump was going to lose.
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John Tyler
American President
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.
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Joe Lieberman
American Politician
We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
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John Stuart Mill
English Philosopher
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Junot Diaz
American Writer
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.
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Owen Jones
British Journalist
Donald Trump's mini-me, Boris Johnson, is in the ascendant: the Tory crown is his to lose. But his colleagues know he's an incompetent, a man who cares only for himself, who was fired twice - by a newspaper editor and a party leader - over allegations of dishonesty.
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Steve-O
British Celebrity
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.
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George Saunders
American Writer
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.
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James Surowiecki
American Journalist
Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.
Quote examples
Joy Reid
American Journalist
When he ran for president in 2008, Mr. Obama was the candidate of the young and the demographically ascendant. He eventually attracted strong majorities among African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Americans and voters under 30.
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Krystal Ball
American Activist
Usually, I chalk Democratic dreams of a blue Texas to the same sort of thinking that brought us the inevitability of the coalition of the ascendant and 100% certainty that Donald Trump was going to lose.
Quote examples
John Tyler
American President
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.
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Joe Lieberman
American Politician
We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
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John Stuart Mill
English Philosopher
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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