dominantly

[ dom-uh-nuhnt ]

as inprincipally

Antonyms for dominantly

secondarily
trivially

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., from Middle French dominant (13c.), from Latin dominantem (nominative dominans), present participle of dominari (see domination). Music sense is from 1819. Sexual bondage sense by c.1960. The noun is first recorded 1819, earliest in the musical sense.

Example Sentences fordominantly

"I'm going to walk with Suzanne," he said dominantly, when he was ready.

Again his eye went from face to face fearlessly, dominantly.

Quebec was dominantly rural; its men married young, and the country parishes had little touch with the outside world.

It was so dominantly above us that instinctively he put his hand in his pocket for his whistle.

Such religion is dominantly non-social, if not, indeed, anti-social in its character.

In this way humor may become the dominant quality in the letters of a correspondent whose conversation is not dominantly humorous.

At the beginning of the twentieth it is dominantly ritualistic and disposed to minimise its relation to the Reformation.

He stepped nearer, and towering over her, he took hold of her shoulders in a powerful grasp and looked down upon her dominantly.

Images have a dominantly synthetic character and make for good composite tools.

If we find his parents were dominantly bad, it means that he is fifty per cent bad.

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