ascendant: Meaning and Definition of

as•cend•ant

1. a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
2. an ancestor; forebear.
3. the point of the ecliptic or the sign and degree of the zodiac rising above the eastern horizon at the time of a birth or event: the cusp of the first house.

1. ascending; rising.
2. superior; predominant.
3. directed or curved upward.