1. Exercising influence or control
   "television plays a dominant role in moulding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage"
    
2. Most frequent or very common
   "dominant winds";
   - prevailing, prevalent, predominant, rife
    
3. Visually prominent or commanding
   "The church spire was the dominant feature of the skyline"
    
4. (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar
   "The dominant gene for brown eyes masked the recessive blue eye gene"

1. (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
   "The chord progression moved from the tonic to the dominant"
    
2. An allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different
   "The dominant allele for brown eyes masked the recessive blue eye allele";
   - dominant allele

Derived forms: dominants

See also: ascendant, ascendent, controlling, dominating, frequent, governing, overriding, paramount, position, possessive, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating, sovereign, status, superior, supreme

Type of: allele, allelomorph, musical note, note, tone

Antonym: low-level, recessive

Encyclopedia: Dominant