ascendent
adjective
- 1
most powerful or important or influential
the economically ascendant class
D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe
- 2
tending or directed upward
rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
noun
- 1
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- 2
position or state of being dominant or in control
that idea was in the ascendant
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