DOMINATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dominating mean? 

• DOMINATING (adjective)
  The adjective DOMINATING has 3 senses:

1. most powerful or important or influential

2. used of a height or viewpoint

3. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

  Familiarity information: DOMINATING used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMINATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Most powerful or important or influential

Synonyms:

ascendant; ascendent; dominating

Context example:

D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe

Similar:

dominant (exercising influence or control)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Used of a height or viewpoint

Synonyms:

commanding; dominating; overlooking

Context example:

the balcony overlooking the ballroom

Similar:

high ((literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high'))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

Synonyms:

autocratic; bossy; dominating; high-and-mighty; magisterial; peremptory

Context example:

a swaggering peremptory manner

Similar:

domineering (tending to domineer)

 Context examples 

Before this new study, it was not clear which process was the dominating influence.

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

The chart does not give me the names of individuals, but you will see who is dominating you and is the focus of your thinking.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Called the runaway albedo effect, this phenomenon would eventually lead to a single dominating ice cap, like the one observed on Pluto’s heart.

(Scientists Probe Mystery of Pluto’s Icy Heart, NASA)

Astronomers were surprised by the pictures, which reveal an unexpected haze of high-energy X-rays dominating the usual stellar activity.

(NASA's NuSTAR Captures Possible 'Screams' from Zombie Stars, NASA)

Apparently it took billions of years longer for dark matter to condense as well, so its dominating effect is only seen on the rotation velocities of galaxy discs today.

(Dark Matter Less Influential in Galaxies in Early Universe, ESO)

I could see him only as living always, and dominating always, fighting and destroying, himself surviving.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Picture him seated upon a rock, his absurd boyish straw hat tilted on the back of his head, his supercilious eyes dominating us from under his drooping lids, his great black beard wagging as he slowly defined our present situation and our future movements.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then the wheel would reappear, and Wolf Larsen’s broad shoulders, his hands gripping the spokes and holding the schooner to the course of his will, himself an earth-god, dominating the storm, flinging its descending waters from him and riding it to his own ends.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)