someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) पर्याय: ancestor, ascendant, antecedent, root,
position or state of being dominant or in control; "that idea was in the ascendant" पर्याय: ascendant,
most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe" पर्याय: ascendant, dominating,
tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin पर्याय: ascendant, ascensive,