Ascendent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASCENDENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the part of the ecliptic just risen or about to rise above the horizon, also ASCENDANT
• position or state of being dominant or in control
• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
• the point on the ecliptic at which it intersects the eastern horizon at a particular time, typically that of a person's birth.
ADJECTIVE:
• rising in power or influence
• (of a planet, zodiacal degree, or sign) on or close to the intersection of the ecliptic with the eastern horizon.
• Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.
• Rising; ascending.
• Superior; surpassing; ruling.
• tending or directed upward
• most powerful or important or influential
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the point of the ecliptic or degree of the zodiac that rises above the eastern horizon at any moment
• same as ascendant

Words related to ASCENDENT

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Words that contain ASCENDENT

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How to use ASCENDENT in a sentence

• The Southern politicians may not have wished to root out manufacturing altogether, but it was their policy to keep the agricultural interests in the ascendent.
• Ever since, this has been the aim as well as the duty of a chancellor of the exchequer whatever party has been in the ascendent.
• He loved office dearly, and hence he did not yield gracefully to the triumph of the ascendent party, which grew stronger every day.
• Under Cyrus they became the ascendent power in Asia, and maintained their ascendency until their conquest by Alexander.
• It is in the ascendent at my own university of Harvard.
• This principle worked well so long as the faith was in the ascendent but its effect was disastrous when decline began.
• At one time his star was in the ascendent, and he seemed to be on the highroad to the Presidency.

Similar words containing ASCEND without suffix ent

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