1 more important, powerful or noticeable than other things:
The firm has achieved a dominant position in the world market. * The dominant feature of the room was the large open fireplace.
2 (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
compareRECESSIVE
dominance noun [U]:
to achieve / assert dominance over sb * political / economic dominance
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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