Definisjon av ascendent

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Adjective

ascendent - tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
ascendant, ascensive
ascending moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed"
ascendent - most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
ascendant, dominating
dominant exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage"

Noun

ascendent - someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
ancestor, ascendant, 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
ascendent - position or state of being dominant or in control; "that idea was in the ascendant"
ascendant
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
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Substantiv

ascendent - A person from whom one is descended.
ascendent - A position of power or control.

Adjektiv

ascendent - Upward in direction or proclivity.
ascendent - In power; controlling.

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