Synonyms of the word ascendant


ASCENDANTANCESTOR - ANTECEDENT - ASCENDANCE - ASCENDANCY - ASCENDENCE - ASCENDENCY - ASCENDENT - ASCENDING - ASCENSIVE - CONTROL - DOMINANCE - DOMINANT - DOMINATING - RELATION - RELATIVE - ROOT

ascendant

  • adj. Rising, moving upward.
  • adj. Surpassing or controlling.
  • n. Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
  • n. An ancestor (antonym of descendant).
  • n. Ascent; height; elevation.
  • n. (astrology) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment…

ancestor

  • n. One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time;…
  • n. An earlier type; a progenitor.
  • n. (law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
  • n. (figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.

antecedent

  • adj. Earlier, either in time or order.
  • adj. presumptive.
  • n. Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
  • n. An ancestor.
  • n. (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
  • n. (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.
  • n. (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated…
  • n. (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.

ascendance

  • n. Ascendancy; superiority.

ascendancy

  • n. The process or period of one's ascent.
  • n. Supremacy; superiority; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant.
  • n. A class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland…

ascendence

  • n. Alternative form of ascendance.

ascendency

  • n. Alternative spelling of ascendancy.

ascendent

  • adj. Upward in direction or proclivity.
  • adj. In power; controlling.
  • n. A person from whom one is descended.
  • n. A position of power or control.

ascending

  • v. present participle of ascend.
  • n. An ascent.

ascensive

  • adj. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
  • adj. (grammar) Augmentative; intensive.

control

  • v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
  • v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
  • n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
  • n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
  • n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
  • n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
  • n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
  • n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
  • n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
  • n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
  • n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
  • n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

dominance

  • n. The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
  • n. Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
  • n. (physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs;…
  • n. (biology, genetics) The property of a gene such that it suppresses the expression of its allele.

dominant

  • n. (music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G…
  • n. (music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
  • n. (genetics) A gene that is dominant.
  • n. A species or organism that is dominant.
  • n. (BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
  • adj. Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling.
  • adj. Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
  • adj. (medicine) Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.

dominating

  • v. present participle of dominate.

relation

  • n. The manner in which two things may be associated.
  • n. A member of one's family.
  • n. The act of relating a story.
  • n. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
  • n. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
  • n. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
  • n. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
  • n. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
  • n. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

relative

  • adj. Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
  • adj. (computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete…
  • adj. (grammar) That relates to an antecedent.
  • adj. (music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
  • adj. Relevant; pertinent; related.
  • adj. Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
  • n. Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.
  • n. (linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective,…

root

  • n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
  • n. A root vegetable.
  • n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
  • n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
  • n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
  • n. The primary source; origin.
  • n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
  • n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
  • n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
  • n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
  • n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
  • n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
  • n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
  • n. The lowest place, position, or part.
  • n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
  • n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
  • n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
  • v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
  • v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
  • v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
  • v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
  • v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
  • v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
  • v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
  • v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
  • v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
  • v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
  • v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

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