Antonym: descendant. Similar words: ascendancy, descendant, descendants, ascend, ascending, pendant, intendant, attendant. Meaning: [-dənt] 
n. 1. position or state of being dominant or in control 2. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent). adj. 1. tending or directed upward 2. most powerful or important or influential.
n. 1. position or state of being dominant or in control 2. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent). adj. 1. tending or directed upward 2. most powerful or important or influential. 
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1. His star was in the ascendant.
2. He's very much in the ascendant in Hollywood.
3. Her star seems very much in the ascendant.
4. British pop music is once again in the ascendant.
5. Radical reformers are once more in the ascendant.
6. The hybrid of commonwealth, long ascendant, is waning.
7. Mr Tony Benn was in the ascendant.
8. During this period, liberal ideas were in the ascendant.
9. And Mr Desmond's Star is in the ascendant, a full 5.72 per cent ahead.
10. If there are more than 25 ascendants, enter the last displayed ascendant in the user name field to reveal the other ascendants.
11. Tory ministers continue to watch Mr Smith's ascendant star with considerable nervousness.
12. At first Athens was in the ascendant, then Sparta.
13. We still have the ascendant position in world politics.
14. Though he is still a young man his political career is already in the ascendant.
15. But might he actually side with Balliol now, if he deemed his cause in the ascendant?
16. Arran gave way to the persuasions of his half-brother, the abbot of Paisley, and to the ascendant Beaton faction.
17. For ladies in your way are apt to extend what they call their privileges and the husband never again recovers the ascendant.
18. In spite of the vote for Clinton in 1992, it is that second personality that has been in the ascendant recently.
19. It is a bold colonization by a group that knows it is - and shows itself to be - in the ascendant.
20. Nothing barring a major disaster can prevent her from becoming a main attraction - Barbara Dennerlein is a star in the ascendant.sentencedict.com
21. In Yorkshire, and elsewhere, the public relations and promotional aspects are now in the ascendant.
22. It's useful to keep that in mind as the trope about soft power again gets earnestly bandied about, only this time with China as the newly ascendant power.
23. Both charr and humans are exhausted by continual fighting and deadly new threats such as the ascendant power of the Elder Dragons.
24. Because of the complexity and importance of the random interests, the research about this problem is still be in the ascendant.
25. Low undercooling degree, the rate high back press. On the heating equipments with condensed water and the recovery system engineering, even show its ascendant function.
26. With the all - round development of the China Education and Research Network, university campus netnews now is in the ascendant.
27. Guangxi is natural calamity happening is frequent, and show ascendant trend.
28. As the multimedia communication developing at very fast speed, multimedia communication terminal research the ascendant.
29. And will look with respect to countrywide market, eider down takes sale to show ascendant trend.
30. The theory of LUCC and its method become perfect. and many organizations join in the study enable LUCC to be in the ascendant.
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