Noun
ascendant -
position or state of being dominant or in control; "that idea was in the ascendant"
ascendent
ascendance ,
ascendancy ,
ascendence ,
ascendency ,
dominance ,
control the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
ascendant -
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
ancestor ,
ascendent ,
antecedent ,
root
descendant ,
descendent a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
relative ,
relation an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
ancestress a woman ancestor
forbear ,
forebear a person from whom you are descended
forefather ,
sire ,
father the founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers"
foremother a woman ancestor
Adjective
ascendant -
tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage" - John Ruskin
ascendent ,
ascensive
ascending moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane" ; "the ascending staircase" ; "the ascending stems of chickweed"
ascendant -
most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class" ; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
ascendent ,
dominating
dominant exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion" ; "the dominant partner in the marriage"
