dominant
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
Types & categories
- musical note hypernym
Related & opposite
- music domain topic
Sense 2 adjective
exercising influence or control
television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion
Related & opposite
- superior also see
- subordinate antonym
- status attribute
- ascendance derivation
- master derivation
- dominate derivation
- dominating similar to
- controlling similar to
- governing similar to
- predominate similar to
- possessive similar to
- sovereign similar to
- superior similar to
Sense 3 noun
an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different
Types & categories
- allele hypernym
Related & opposite
- dominant derivation
Sense 4 adjective
(of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar
Related & opposite
- recessive antonym
- dominant allele derivation
- dominance derivation
- genetics domain topic
Sense 5 adjective
most frequent or common
prevailing winds
Related & opposite
- predomination derivation
- prevalence derivation
- prevail derivation
- persist derivation
- frequent similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | music |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | musical note |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | superior |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | subordinate |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | status |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ascendance |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | master |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dominate |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | dominating |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | controlling |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | governing |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | predominate |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | possessive |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | sovereign |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | superior |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dominant |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | allele |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | recessive |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dominant allele |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dominance |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | genetics |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | predomination |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | prevalence |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | prevail |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | persist |
| 5 | similar to | Related & opposite | frequent |