Synonyms of the word

dominant

• n. (music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G…
• n. (music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
• n. (genetics) A gene that is dominant.
• n. A species or organism that is dominant.
• n. (BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
• adj. Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling.
• adj. Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
• adj. (medicine) Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.

allele

• n. (genetics) One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus,…

allelomorph

• n. (genetics) one of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position on a chromosome.

ascendant

• adj. Rising, moving upward.
• adj. Surpassing or controlling.
• n. Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
• n. An ancestor (antonym of descendant).
• n. Ascent; height; elevation.
• n. (astrology) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment…

ascendent

• adj. Upward in direction or proclivity.
• adj. In power; controlling.
• n. A person from whom one is descended.
• n. A position of power or control.

controlling

• adj. Exerting control over a person or thing.
• v. present participle of control.

dominating

• v. present participle of dominate.

governing

• v. present participle of govern.

note

• n. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
• n. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
• n. (music, heading) A sound.
• n. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
• n. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
• n. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
• n. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
• v. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
• v. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
• v. (transitive) To annotate.
• v. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
• v. (transitive) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of…
• n. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary;…
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period…

overriding

• v. present participle of override.
• n. The act or process by which something is overridden.

paramount

• adj. Supreme; highest; chief.
• adj. Of the highest importance.

possessive

• adj. Of or pertaining to ownership or possession.
• adj. (grammar) Indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.
• adj. Unwilling to yield possession of.
• n. (grammar) The possessive case.
• n. (grammar) A word used to indicate the possessive case.

predominant

• adj. common or widespread; prevalent.
• adj. significant or important; dominant.
• n. (music) A subdominant.

predominate

• v. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
• v. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
• v. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
• adj. Predominant.

preponderant

• adj. Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing.

preponderating

• v. present participle of preponderate.

sovereign

• adj. Exercising power of rule.
• adj. Exceptional in quality.
• adj. (now rare) Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
• adj. Having supreme, ultimate power.
• adj. Princely; royal.
• adj. Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
• n. A monarch; the ruler of a country.
• n. One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
• n. A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as…
• n. A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33⅓ standard bottles.
• n. Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
• n. (Britain, slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.

superior

• adj. Higher in quality.
• adj. Higher in rank.
• adj. More comprehensive, as a term in classification.
• adj. Located above.
• adj. Greater or better than average; extraordinary.
• adj. Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to.
• n. A person of higher rank or quality.
• n. The senior person in a monastic community.

supreme

• adj. Dominant, having power over all others.
• adj. (sometimes postpositive) Greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.
• adj. (botany) Situated at the highest part or point.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To divide a citrus fruit into its segments, removing the skin, pith, membranes,…
• n. (cooking) A breast of chicken or duck with the wing bone attached.
• n. (cooking) Anything from which all skin, bones, and other parts which are not eaten have been removed,…

tone

• n. (music) A specific pitch.
• n. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
• n. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
• n. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
• n. General character, mood, or trend.
• n. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
• n. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking…
• n. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
• n. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
• n. The shade or quality of a colour.
• n. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
• n. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus.
• n. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy…
• n. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
• v. (transitive) to give a particular tone to.
• v. (transitive) to change the colour of.
• v. (transitive) to make (something) firmer.
• v. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour.
• v. (transitive) To utter with an affected tone.
• pron. (now dialectal) The one (of two).