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ASCENDANT
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Classic
11
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Big
11
pts
Super Big
18
pts
ASCENDANT is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.
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adjective
- Moving upward; ascending, rising.
- figurativelyControlling, dominant, surpassing.
- In an eastern direction rising just above the horizon.
- Rising towards the zenith.
- Of a part of an organism: synonym of ascending (“leading or sloping upwards”).
- archaicobsoleteSynonym of ascending (“of or pertaining to one's ancestors”).
noun
- alsofigurativelyThe 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), which is supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's fortune and life; a horoscope.
- broadlyChiefly in in the ascendant: an act of ascending or rising.
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broadlyfigurativelySynonym of ascendancy (“commanding influence; dominant control; superiority, supremacy”).
- One man has the ascendant over another.
- broadlyAn ancestor.
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broadlyobsoleteA person who ascends or goes up; specifically (usually followed by to), a person who ascends to a throne or assumes some other position of power.
- Given his father’s ghastly demise, one would not expect such glee from the ascendant to his throne.
- broadlyobsoleteSomething which is higher than the things around it; a peak, a summit; specifically (typography), synonym of ascender (“the portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline”).
- broadlyobsoleteSomething which leads or slopes upwards, such as a flight of stairs or an upward incline.
- broadlyobsoleterareA person who supports a policy of ecclesiastical or national supremacy.