dominant Definition

1. Most important, evident or active; foremost.

Thesaurus: prevailing, prevalent, main, leading, chief, leading, preeminent, outstanding, principal, superior.
2. Tending or seeking to command or influence others.

Thesaurus: ruling, presiding, assertive, commanding.
3. Said of a building, etc: overlooking others from an elevated position.
4. biol.
Denoting a gene, or the characteristics determined by it, whose phenotype is fully expressed in an individual whether there are two dominant alleles, or one dominant and one recessive allele.
5. Denoting a characteristic determined by such a gene.
6. biol.
Denoting the most prevalent plant or animal species in a particular community or during a particular period, or describing an animal that occupies a superior position within a group of its own kind.

1. music.
The fifth note on a musical scale.
2. biol.
A dominant gene.
3. biol.
A dominant animal or plant.