Thesaurus / dominant
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
At any rate, if this be not strictly true,22 my mind is the most important and dominant element within me.
The fear of ridicule is the most dominant of our feelings, that which controls us in most things and with the most strength.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGYROBERT E. PARK
There has been therefore in the successive forms and stages of animal life a clear sequence of dominant nervous actions.
THE WHENCE AND THE WHITHER OF MANJOHN MASON TYLER
Everybody knows the steps by which this embodied selfishness achieved his emancipation from a dominant Church.
THE EIGHTEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIESJAMES WHITE
The dominant factor determining the character of this new age, however, is the hero.
ELEMENTS OF FOLK PSYCHOLOGYWILHELM WUNDT
In return for these losses Austria became the dominant power In Italy.
They are the dominant factors in determining that America shall be one of the two great centers of civilization.
THE RED MAN'S CONTINENTELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON
It followed from the dominant idea which gave the film its unity and its raison d'être.
THE THREE EYESMAURICE LEBLANC
The visitor is conscious of two dominant impressions, as he stands thus in the midst of this seventeenth century homestead.
VIRGINIA: THE OLD DOMINIONFRANK W. HUTCHINS AND CORTELLE HUTCHINS
North of that river these elements increase gradually up to the Italian Alps, and at present are dominant in the valley of the Po.
MAN, PAST AND PRESENTAGUSTUS HENRY KEANE
WORDS RELATED TO DOMINANT
- apical
- capital
- chief
- crack
- crowning
- culminating
- dominant
- elite
- excellent
- fine
- finest
- first
- first-class
- first-rate
- five-star
- foremost
- greatest
- head
- highest
- lead
- leading
- maximal
- maximum
- outside
- paramount
- preeminent
- primary
- prime
- principal
- ruling
- sovereign
- superior
- supreme
- tiptop
- top-drawer
- top-notch
- topmost
- upmost
- upper
- uppermost
- able
- all-powerful
- almighty
- authoritarian
- authoritative
- capable
- cogent
- commanding
- compelling
- competent
- controlling
- convincing
- dominant
- dynamic
- effectual
- efficacious
- energetic
- forceful
- forcible
- impressive
- in control
- in the saddle
- influential
- mighty
- omnipotent
- overruling
- paramount
- persuasive
- potent
- preeminent
- prevailing
- puissant
- robust
- ruling
- sovereign
- stalwart
- strapping
- strengthy
- sturdy
- supreme
- telling
- upper hand
- vigorous
- weighty
- wicked
- wieldy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.