单词	ascendant
释义	ascendant1 nounascendant2 adjective ascendantas‧cen‧dant1, ascendent /əˈsendənt/ noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And Mr Desmond's Star is in the ascendant, a full 5.72 per cent ahead. For ladies in your way are apt to extend what they call their privileges and the husband never again recovers the ascendant. If there are more than 25 ascendants, enter the last displayed ascendant in the user name field to reveal the other ascendants. In spite of the vote for Clinton in 1992, it is that second personality that has been in the ascendant recently. In Yorkshire, and elsewhere, the public relations and promotional aspects are now in the ascendant. It is a bold colonization by a group that knows it is - and shows itself to be - in the ascendant. Nothing barring a major disaster can prevent her from becoming a main attraction - Barbara Dennerlein is a star in the ascendant. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► be in the ascendant During this period, liberal ideas were in the ascendant. And Mr Desmond's Star is in the ascendant, a full 5.72 per cent ahead. Mr Tony Benn was in the ascendant. be in the ascendant formal to be or become powerful or popular:  a political party that’s in the ascendant ascendant1 nounascendant2 adjective ascendantascendant2, ascendent adjective formal Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES an ascendant politician EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Arran gave way to the persuasions of his half-brother, the abbot of Paisley, and to the ascendant Beaton faction. Tory ministers continue to watch Mr Smith's ascendant star with considerable nervousness. becoming more powerful or popular:  a politically ascendant country
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