Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun descendants

1 sense of descendants

Sense 1
descendants, posterity -- (all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity")
       => biological group -- (a group of plants or animals)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun descendant

1 sense of descendant

Sense 1
descendant, descendent -- (a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race)
       => relative, relation -- (a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey")

Antonyms of noun descendants
                                                                         

Antonyms of noun descendant

1 sense of descendant

Sense 1
descendant, descendent -- (a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race)
       Antonym of ancestor (Sense 1)
      => ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root -- (someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent))