'Dominant' definitions:
Definition of 'dominant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage" [ant: low-level, subordinate]
adjective
(of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar [ant: recessive]
adjective
Most frequent or common; "prevailing winds" [syn: prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant, rife]
noun
(music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
noun
An allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different [syn: dominant allele, dominant]
Definition of 'Dominant'
From: GCIDE
- Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, a. [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See Dominate.] Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power. [1913 Webster]
- The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Dominant estate or Dominant tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. --Bouvier. --Wharton's Law Dict.
- Dominant owner (Law), one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dominant'
From: GCIDE
- Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, n. (Mus.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on. [1913 Webster]
- Dominant chord (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dominant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- accidental,
- all-absorbing,
- arch,
- ascendant,
- assertive,
- at the head,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- authorized,
- autocratic,
- average,
- banner,
- besetting,
- boss,
- breve,
- capital,
- cardinal,
- central,
- champion,
- chief,
- clothed with authority,
- cock,
- commanding,
- common,
- competent,
- conquering,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- controlling,
- crotchet,
- crowning,
- current,
- defeating,
- demisemiquaver,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- duly constituted,
- eighth note,
- eminent,
- empowered,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- epidemic,
- ex officio,
- first,
- flat,
- flushed with success,
- focal,
- foremost,
- general,
- governing,
- great,
- half note,
- head,
- headmost,
- hegemonic,
- hegemonistic,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- highest,
- imperative,
- important,
- in ascendancy,
- in charge,
- in chief,
- in the ascendant,
- influential,
- key,
- key signature,
- keynote,
- leading,
- magisterial,
- main,
- major,
- major key,
- master,
- mediant,
- mighty,
- minim,
- minor,
- momentous,
- monocratic,
- musical note,
- natural,
- normal,
- note,
- number,
- official,
- on the throne,
- ordinary,
- outstanding,
- overbearing,
- overcoming,
- overriding,
- overruling,
- pandemic,
- paramount,
- patent note,
- pedal point,
- popular,
- potent,
- powerful,
- predominant,
- predominate,
- predominating,
- preeminent,
- premier,
- prepollent,
- preponderant,
- preponderate,
- prepotent,
- prestigious,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- principal,
- prominent,
- puissant,
- quarter note,
- quaver,
- rampant,
- ranking,
- regnant,
- regulating,
- regulative,
- regulatory,
- reigning,
- report,
- responding note,
- rife,
- routine,
- ruling,
- running,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- senior,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- sovereign,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- standard,
- star,
- stellar,
- stereotyped,
- subdominant,
- submediant,
- substantial,
- subtonic,
- successful,
- supereminent,
- superior,
- supertonic,
- supreme,
- surpassing,
- sustained note,
- swaying,
- tercet,
- thirty-second note,
- tonality,
- tone,
- tonic,
- tonic key,
- topflight,
- topmost,
- totalitarian,
- transcendent,
- triplet,
- triumphal,
- triumphant,
- uppermost,
- usual,
- vanquishing,
- victorious,
- weighty,
- whole note,
- winning
Words containing 'Dominant'
- Dominance,
- Dominancy,
- Dominate,
- Dominated,
- Dominating,
- Domination,
- Dominative,
- Dominator,
- Domineer,
- Domineered,
- Domineering,
- Domineeringly,
- Dominical,
- domine,
- dominic,
- Dominant chord,
- Dominant estate,
- Dominant owner,
- Dominant tenement,
- Dominical altar,
- Dominical letter,
- dominant allele,
- dominant gene,
- saint dominic,
- st. dominic,
- autosomal dominant disease,
- autosomal dominant disorder,
- x-linked dominant inheritance