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dominant

(music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale

exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage"

(of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar

Synonyms:

• absolute,
• accidental,
• all-absorbing,
• arch,
• ascendant,
• assertive,
• at the head,
• authoritarian,
• authoritative,
• authorized,
• autocratic,
• average,
• banner,
• besetting,
• boss,
• breve,
• capital,
• cardinal,
• central,
• champion,
• chief,
• clothed with authority,
• cock,
• commanding,
• common,
• competent,
• conquering,
• consequential,
• considerable,
• controlling,
• crotchet,
• crowning,
• current,
• defeating,
• demisemiquaver,
• dominant note,
• double whole note,
• duly constituted,
• eighth note,
• eminent,
• empowered,
• enharmonic,
• enharmonic note,
• epidemic,
• ex officio,
• first,
• flat,
• flushed with success,
• focal,
• foremost,
• general,
• governing,
• great,
• half note,
• head,
• headmost,
• hegemonic,
• hegemonistic,
• hemidemisemiquaver,
• highest,
• imperative,
• important,
• in ascendancy,
• in charge,
• in chief,
• in the ascendant,
• influential,
• key,
• key signature,
• keynote,
• leading,
• magisterial,
• main,
• major,
• major key,
• master,
• mediant,
• mighty,
• minim,
• minor,
• momentous,
• monocratic,
• musical note,
• natural,
• normal,
• note,
• number,
• official,
• on the throne,
• ordinary,
• outstanding,
• overbearing,
• overcoming,
• overriding,
• overruling,
• pandemic,
• paramount,
• patent note,
• pedal point,
• popular,
• potent,
• powerful,
• predominant,
• predominate,
• predominating,
• preeminent,
• premier,
• prepollent,
• preponderant,
• preponderate,
• prepotent,
• prestigious,
• prevailing,
• prevalent,
• primal,
• primary,
• prime,
• principal,
• prominent,
• puissant,
• quarter note,
• quaver,
• rampant,
• ranking,
• regnant,
• regulating,
• regulative,
• regulatory,
• reigning,
• report,
• responding note,
• rife,
• routine,
• ruling,
• running,
• semibreve,
• semiquaver,
• senior,
• shaped note,
• sharp,
• sixteenth note,
• sixty-fourth note,
• sovereign,
• spiccato,
• staccato,
• standard,
• star,
• stellar,
• stereotyped,
• subdominant,
• submediant,
• substantial,
• subtonic,
• successful,
• supereminent,
• superior,
• supertonic,
• supreme,
• surpassing,
• sustained note,
• swaying,
• tercet,
• thirty-second note,
• tonality,
• tone,
• tonic,
• tonic key,
• topflight,
• topmost,
• totalitarian,
• transcendent,
• triplet,
• triumphal,
• triumphant,
• uppermost,
• usual,
• vanquishing,
• victorious,
• weighty,
• whole note,
• winning