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dominant

• (a) exercising influence or control
  • television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion
  • the dominant partner in the marriage
• (a) (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar
• (s) most frequent or common
  • prevailing winds
  predominant, prevailing, prevalent, rife,

Nouns

• (n) (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
• (n) an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different dominant allele,

Synonyms

dominant allele predominant prevailing prevalent rife

Antonyms

subordinate low-level recessive

See also

superior

Words of close approximity