What's your ascendant?
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Ascendant
/əˈsɛnd(ə)nt/
Synonyms for "ascendant" (175 found)
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Closest matches (35)
a cut aboveaboveabsoluteaheadanabaticantecedentascendancyascendingascensionalascensiveat the headauthoritarianauthoritativeauthorizedautocraticbetterbosscappingchiefchosen
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Strong matches (53)
controllingdefeatingdistinguisheddominancedominantdominationdominionduly constitutedeclipsingeminentempoweredex officioexceedingexcellentexcellingfinerflushed with successforebearforefatherforerunner
Noun(5 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (87)
on the throneone up onoutstandingoveroverbearingovercomingparamountpotentpowerfulprecursorpredecessorpredominantpredominatepreeminencepreeminentprepollentpreponderancepreponderantpreponderateprepotence
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prepotentprestigiousprevailingprevalentprimogenitorprogenitorprominentpuissantrampantrankingrarerearingregnantregulatingregulativeregulatoryreigningrisingrivalingrulingsaltatoryscandentscansorialseniorskyrocketingsovereignsovereigntyspiralingspringingsubstantialsuccessfulsupersuperiorsupremacysupremesurpassingswayingtoppingtotalitariantranscendenttranscendentaltranscendingtriumphaltriumphantuparchingupcomingupgoingupgradeuphilluphillwardupperuprisingupslopingupwardupwithvanquishingvictoriousweightywinning
Noun(7 words)
Adverb(1 words)
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More general
15 entriesascendanceascendancyascendenceascendencyastrology termastronomical descriptorcontroldominancefamily memberinfluencepowerqualitative adjectiverelationrelativestatus
More specific
13 entriescultural ascendancydominanteastwardeconomic ascendancyforebearinfluentialmatriarchmilitary ascendancypatriarchpolitical ascendancypreeminentprogenitorrising
Collocations
9 entriesascendant classascendant influenceascendant leaderascendant nationascendant partyascendant powerascendant regimeascendant statusascendant trend
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
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2 entriesSample 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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