Synonyms of ascendant

ascendant

adjective

variants also ascendent

as in ascending

Related Words

• ascending
• soaring
• elevated
• upheld
• airy
• uplifted
• upper
• upward
• upraised
• high
• overhead
• raised
• uppermost
• topmost
• nosebleed
• overlooking
• upmost

Dissimilar Words

• low
• descending
• dropped
• grounded
• fallen
• lowered
• depressed
• down
• sunken
• low-lying
• descendant
• lowermost
• level
• even
• undermost
• nethermost
• abreast

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ascendant

The production was full of nostalgia for an imagined past when the small screen was more ascendant and apolitical, with tributes to Charlie’s Angels and Dolly Parton shirking any embrace of the form’s progressive history. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026

Garth Brooks, Zach Top and Riley Green will headline 2027’s Stagecoach country music festival, organizers announced Monday, bringing together one of the genre’s veteran standard-bearers with two of Nashville’s ascendant stars. — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Swift was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant elite, and the text satires both the callousness of his class and a then-ascendant approach to morality and politics that held that all aspects of life could be cooked down to a pure numerical value. — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

Venus ascendant, sky blackened with the new moon, and acool breeze soothed you. — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026