Synonyms:
ascendant, ascendent, dominating
Meaning: most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
Usage examples
The conversation, carried along upon those lines, lasted for half an hour, with the Judge dominating.
They were fitted with small gyroscopes to keep them straight until the magnetic-heads began to exert a dominating influence.
Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle in the universe; justice, not injustice, is the soul and substance of life; and righteousness, not corruption, is the moulding and moving force in the spiritual government of the world.
Each and all of these six events have played important parts in moulding the present-day aspect of Egypt and its people, and the more closely do we study the existing conditions, the more strikingly do these six events stand out from all others as the great and dominating landmarks in the history of modern Egypt.
It stood in a hollow of the long smooth billows of pale pasture that suavely melted into the sky on every side. The evening was so still that the little river running across the threshold of the town, and encircling what remained of its old walls, was the noisiest thing to be heard, dominating with its talkative murmur the bedtime hum of the High Street.