What's your ascendant?
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Ascendant
//əˈsɛnd(ə)nt//
Synonyms for "ascendant" (167 found)
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Closest matches (34)
forefatherancestora cut aboveaboveabsoluteaheadanabaticantecedentascendancyascendentascendingascensionalascensiveat the headauthoritarianauthoritativeauthorizedautocraticbetterboss
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Noun(4 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (50)
Related words (83)
officialon the throneone up onoutstandingoveroverbearingovercomingoverwhelmingparamountpotentpowerfulprecursorpredecessorpredominantpredominatepreeminencepreeminentprepollentpreponderancepreponderant
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preponderateprepotenceprepotentprestigiousprevailingprevalentprimogenitorprogenitorprominentpuissantrampantrankingrarerearingregnantregulatingregulativeregulatoryreigningrisingrivalingrulingsaltatoryscandentscansorialseniorskyrocketingsovereignsovereigntyspiralingspringingsubstantialsuccessfulsupersuperiorsupremacysupremesurpassingswayingtoppingtotalitariantranscendenttranscendentaltranscendingtriumphaltriumphantuparchingupcomingupgoingupgradeuphilluphillwardupperuprisingupslopingupwardupwithvanquishingvictoriousweightywinning
Noun(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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38 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- господствуващ adj (controlling, dominant, surpassing — see also controlling, dominant, surpassing)
- изгряващвъзходящ adj (moving upward — see also ascending, rising)
- издигащ се adj (moving upward — see also ascending, rising)
Finnish
4 entries- nouseva adj (moving upward — see also ascending, rising)
- nouseva adj (rising towards the zenith)
- nouseva adj (in an eastern direction rising just above the horizon)
- nousussa oleva adj (moving upward — see also ascending, rising)
French
4 entries- ascendant adj (moving upward — see also ascending, rising)
- ascendant adj (rising towards the zenith)
- ascendant adj (in an eastern direction rising just above the horizon)
- ascendant noun (degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person’s birth) — see also horoscope)
Hungarian
1 entries- aszcendens noun (degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person’s birth) — see also horoscope)
Irish
2 entries- ardaitheach adj (moving upward — see also ascending, rising)
- uachtar noun (degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person’s birth) — see also horoscope)
Italian
4 entries- ascendente adj (moving upward — see also ascending, rising)
- ascendente adj (rising towards the zenith)
- dominante adj (controlling, dominant, surpassing — see also controlling, dominant, surpassing)
- dominante adj (controlling, dominant, surpassing — see also controlling, dominant, surpassing)
Persian
4 entries- برآینده adj (moving upward — see also ascending, rising)
- برآینده adj (controlling, dominant, surpassing — see also controlling, dominant, surpassing)
- براینده adj (moving upward — see also ascending, rising)
- طالع adj (moving upward — see also ascending, rising)
Polish
2 entries- ascendent noun (degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person’s birth) — see also horoscope)
- ascendent noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
Portuguese
2 entries- ascendente adj (moving upward — see also ascending, rising)
- ascendente noun (ancestor — see also ancestor)
Sample sentences
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Both Decadence and Aestheticism, as intellectual movements, have fallen into the nadir of oblivion, and the dust lies heavy upon them, but they left a little leaven to lighten the heavy inertness of correct and academic literature; and now Symbolism, a greater movement than either, is in the ascendant, giving another turn to the wheel, and to all who think deeply about such matters it seems as though Symbolist literature is to be the literature of the future.
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My ascendant in Scorpio always helps me pull off truly intellectual feats.
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My ascendant in Scorpio always helps me achieve truly intellectual feats.
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