Synonyms for descendant
dɪˈsɛn dəntde·scen·dant

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1. descendantnoun

   Antonyms:
   ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, ascending

2. descendantadjective

   descending from a biological ancestor

   The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.

   Antonyms:
   ascendant, ancestor, ascending, ascendent

3. descendantnoun

   One which derives directly from a given precursor or source

   This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.

   Antonyms:
   ancestor, ascendent, ascending, ascendant

4. descendantnoun

   Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.

   Antonyms:
   ancestor, ascendant

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1. descendant

   Synonyms:
   offspring, progeny, stock, scion, seed, branch, issue, house, family, lineage

   Antonyms:
   author, founder, parent, ancestor, progenitor, stock, root, source, origin

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1. descendant, descendentadjective

   a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race

   Synonyms:
   descendent

   Antonyms:
   antecedent, root, ascendant, ancestor, ascendent, unrelated, ascending(a)

2. descendant, descendentadjective

   going or coming down

   Synonyms:
   descendent

   Antonyms:
   root, antecedent, ascendent, ascendant, ancestor, ascending(a), unrelated

3. descendant, descendentadjective

   proceeding by descent from an ancestor

   "descendent gene"

   Synonyms:
   descendent

   Antonyms:
   ascendant, ancestor, antecedent, root, ascendent, unrelated, ascending(a)

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1. List of paraphrases for "descendant":

   descendent, scion, descendants, descending, top-down, offspring, descent

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How to use descendant in a sentence?

1. Edith Sitwell:

   Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

2. Ahn Chan-il:

   Kim Jong Un wants to break away from the past, as well as the Norths traditional cult of personality, he wants to come across and brand himself as a leader who is modern and competent, rather than a descendant of his predecessors.

3. Andrew Galvan:

   I am the only descendant of Indians who were missionized at any of the 21 California missions who is currently in a position of responsibility at one of those missions. So it's a unique situation, and it's one that I would hope in the next 20 or 30 years changes.

4. Kingman Brewster, Jr.:

   It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

5. Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?:

   What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American.