dominant
adjective OPAL W
/ˈdɒmɪnənt/
/ˈdɑːmɪnənt/
- more important, powerful or easy to notice than other things
- The firm has achieved a dominant position in the world market.
- The dominant feature of the room was the large fireplace.
Extra Examples- Banks have a dominant role in most countries' economies.
- London is dominant within the UK economy.
- No one group appears to be overwhelmingly dominant.
- The state of the economy has been the dominant theme of the election.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- become
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- (biology) a dominant gene causes a person to have a particular physical characteristic, for example brown eyes, even if only one of their parents has passed on this gene compare recessiveTopics Biologyc2
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from Latin dominant- ‘ruling, governing’, from the verb dominari, from dominus ‘lord, master’.