Vocabulary
Dominant
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
having power and influence over others.
Urdu meaning
غالب، اثر، زبردست
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- In the months since, the same strain has been dominant in the massive restructuring of foreign policy now underway in the US.
- Though White played a seminal role, the dollar was bound to become dominant as the US was economically the most powerful country at the end of World War H.
- From the dominant Indian perspective, the Alaska summit was about Russian oil, sadly, not about saving the world from nuclear annihilation.
- However, the liberal centre remains unwilling to offer an alternative economic programme to the dominant development regime that is based on dispossession, ecocide and mindless consumption.
- The dominant pattern remains one of evacuating areas and displacing local populations or conducting smallto medium-scale operations thatrestrict civilian movement, often without prior warning or any provision for livelihoods.
Synonyms
presiding, ruling, governing, controlling, commanding, ascendant, supreme
Antonyms
subservient, submissive
Curator example
“they are now in an even more dominant position in the market”
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