dominant

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: dom=i=nant

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dominant, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 dominating, prevailing, most influential.
2 (of a high place) prominent, overlooking others.
3 a (of an allele) expressed even when inherited from only one parent. b (of an inherited characteristic) appearing in an individual even when its allelic counterpart is also inherited (cf. RECESSIVE).
--n. Mus. the fifth note of the diatonic scale of any key.

Derivative

dominantly adv.

Etymology

F f. L dominari (as DOMINATE)

THESAURUS

dominant

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

ROGET THESAURUS

dominant

Authority

N authority, influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction, right, direction, government, divine right, dynastic rights, authoritativeness, absoluteness, absolutism, despotism, jus nocendi, jus divinum, mastery, mastership, masterdom, dictation, control, hold, grasp, grip, gripe, reach, iron sway, fangs, clutches, talons, rod of empire, commission, deputy, permission, at the head, dominant, paramount, supreme, predominant, preponderant, in the ascendant, influential, arbitrary, compulsory, stringent, at one's command, in one's power, in one's grasp, under control, in the name of, by the authority of, de par le Roi, in virtue of, under the auspices of, in the hands of, at one's pleasure, by a dash if the pen, by a stroke of the pen, ex mero motu, ex cathedra, from the chair, the gray mare the better horse, every inch a king.

Influence

N influence, importance, weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway, predominance, predominancy, ascendency, dominance, reign, control, domination, pull, authority, capability, effect, interest, synergy (cooperation), footing, purchase, play, leverage, vantage ground, tower of strength, host in himself, protection, patronage, auspices, influential, effective, important, weighty, prevailing, prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the ascendant, hegemonical, with telling effect, tel maure tel valet.

Concord

N concord, accord, harmony, symphony, homologue, agreement, sympathy, empathy, response, union, unison, unity, bonds of harmony, peace, unanimity, league, happy family, rapprochement, reunion, amity, alliance, entente cordiale, good understanding, conciliation, peacemaker, intercessor, mediator, concordant, congenial, agreeing, in accord, harmonious, united, cemented, banded together, allied, friendly, fraternal, conciliatory, at one with, of one mind, at peace, in still water, tranquil, with one voice, in concert with, hand in hand, on one's side, commune periculum concordiam parit, melody concord, melody, rhythm, measure, rhyme, pitch, timbre, intonation, tone, scale, gamut, diapason, diatonic chromatic scale, enharmonic scale, key, clef, chords, modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation, suspension, resolution, staff, stave, line, space, brace, bar, rest, appoggiato, appoggiatura, acciaccatura, note, musical note, notes of a scale, sharp, flat, natural, high note, low note, interval, semitone, second, third, fourth, diatessaron, breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver, sustained note, drone, burden, tonic, key note, leading note, fundamental note, supertonic, mediant, dominant, submediant, subdominant, octave, tetrachord, major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode, passage, phrase, concord, harmony, emmeleia, unison, unisonance, chime, homophony, euphony, euphonism, tonality, consonance, consent, part, harmony, harmonics, thorough-bass, fundamental-bass, counterpoint, faburden, piece of music, composer, harmonist, contrapuntist (musician), harmonious, harmonical, in concord, in tune, in concert, unisonant, concentual, symphonizing, isotonic, homophonous, assonant, ariose, consonant, measured, rhythmical, diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic, melodious, musical, melic, tuneful, tunable, sweet, dulcet, canorous, mellow, mellifluous, soft, clear, clear as a bell, silvery, euphonious, euphonic, euphonical, symphonious, enchanting fine-toned, full-toned, silver-toned, harmoniously, in harmony, as one, the hidden soul of harmony.