dominant

1. 1.

   exercising influence or control

   “television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion”

   “the dominant partner in the marriage”

   Antonymssubordinate

   Similarascendantcontrollinggoverningoverridingpossessivesovereignsuperior
2. 2.

   (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar

   Antonymsrecessive

   genetics

3. 3.

   most frequent or common

   “prevailing winds”

   Synonymsprevailingprevalentpredominantrife

   Similarfrequent

1. 1.

   (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale

   Broadernote

   music

2. 2.

   an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different

   Synonymsdominant allele

   Broaderallele

Other forms of dominant

plural

dominants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dominant

What does dominant mean?

dominant means "exercising influence or control". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dominant?

dominant has 3 syllables: do-mi-nant. The stress falls on "do". In IPA it is /ˈdɑmənənt/.

What is another word for dominant?

Close synonyms include prevailing, prevalent, predominant, rife, dominant allele. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of dominant?

The recorded antonyms are subordinate, recessive.

Is dominant a common word?

dominant is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dominant?

1 word rhymes with dominant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.