ascendant
pronunciation
How to pronounce ascendant in British English:
UK [əˈsendənt]
How to pronounce ascendant in American English:
US [əˈsɛndənt]
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- Noun:
- position or state of being dominant or in control
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
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- Adjective:
- tending or directed upward
- most powerful or important or influential
Word Origin
- ascendant (adj.)
- late 14c., ascendent, astrological use is earliest, from Middle French ascendant (noun and adjective) and directly from Latin ascendentem (nominative ascendans), present participle of ascendere "to mount, ascend, go up" (see ascend). Sense "moving upward, rising" is recorded from 1590s. In the ascendant "ruling, dominant" (not, as is often thought, "rising") is from 1670s.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Everywhere else , non-joiners have been in the ascendant .
- 2. South korean network literature and criticism into the ascendant trend .
- 3. Biomass energy utilization in hohhot in the ascendant .
- 4. Our star is in the ascendant , my friend .
- 5. Screen business card printing and membership card making is in the ascendant .