Definition for Descendant:

• One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.

Synonyms for Descendant:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • descendent,
  • descendant.

• n.

  •child (noun)
  • little angels,
  • dickenses,
  • pubescents,
  • in-nocent,
  • little dolls,
  • young ones,
  • small fries,
  • little darlings,
  • in nocent.
  •descendant (noun)
  • descending.
  •outgrowth (noun)
  • out come,
  • after effect,
  • out-comes,
  • out-come,
  • out comes,
  • end results,
  • out-growth,
  • out growth,
  • out-growths,
  • out growths.
  •person in line of ancestry (noun)
  • issue,
  • brood,
  • product,
  • heir,
  • posterity,
  • Children,
  • seed,
  • kin,
  • get.
  •posterity (noun)
  • fruit,
  • Family,
  • lineage.
  •sequel (noun)
  • codicil,
  • Postlude,
  • sequel,
  • epilog,
  • aftermath,
  • legacy,
  • follow up,
  • postscript,
  • consequence,
  • afterthought,
  • coda,
  • effect,
  • outcome.
  •son (noun)
  • Males,
  • BENS,
  • ben,
  • juniors,
  • dependents,
  • fils.
  •successor (noun)
  • in-heritors,
  • re placements,
  • in heritors,
  • in heritor,
  • next line,
  • re-placement,
  • re-placements,
  • in-heritor.
  •tot (noun)
  • tot.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • family tree,
  • ancestry,
  • survivor,
  • spinoff,
  • byproduct,
  • progenitor,
  • forefathers.
  •
  • father,
  • progeny,
  • antecedent,
  • derivation,
  • genealogy.
  •
  • pedigree,
  • descent.
  •
  • branch.
  •
  • stock.
  •
  • line.
  •female child
  • daughter.

Paraphrases for Descendant:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    descendent.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    scion.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    descending.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    descending.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    descent, offspring, ancestry, progeny, top-down.

Antonyms for Descendant:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    erect, upright, unrelated, rigid, ascendent, root, upraised, unbending, inflexible, ascending, elevated, raised, stiff.

• n.

  • person
    ancestor.
  • person in line of ancestry
    origin, predecessor, ascendant, parent, source, cause.

Descendant Sentence Examples:

• " I'm coming," responded Praskovya, and a minute later she came in with the descendant of tigers in her arms.

• He rarely saw a black: and the tenderness which lies in some corner of the hardest hearts was by him lavished upon his only remaining descendant.

Homophones for Descendant:

• desmodontidae, decontaminate, discontinued, discontented, dicynodont, descendent, discontinuity, dicynodontia, dissentient, discontent.

Hypernym for Descendant:

• n.

  • person
    scion, child.

Hyponym for Descendant:

• n.

  • person
    relative, relation.