ascendant

1. 1.

   tending or directed upward

   “rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage”

   Synonymsascendentascensive

   Similarascending
2. 2.

   most powerful or important or influential

   “the economically ascendant class”

   “D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe”

   Synonymsascendentdominating

   Similardominant

Other forms of ascendant

plural

ascendants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ascendant

What does ascendant mean?

ascendant means "position or state of being dominant or in control". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ascendant?

ascendant has 3 syllables: a-scen-dant. The stress falls on "scen". In IPA it is /əˈsɛndənt/.

What is another word for ascendant?

Close synonyms include ascendent, ancestor, ascendent, antecedent, root. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ascendant a common word?

ascendant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ascendant?

3 words rhyme with ascendant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.