dominating : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dominating	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for dominating
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dominating adj most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe" Synonym(s): ascendant, ascendent, dominating used of a height or viewpoint; "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom" Synonym(s): commanding, dominating, overlooking offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner" Synonym(s): autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and- mighty, magisterial, peremptory
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dominate \Dom"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dominated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dominating}.] [L. dominatus, p. p. of dominari to dominate, fr. dominus master, lord. See {Dame}, and cf. {Domineer}.] To predominate over; to rule; to govern. [bd]A city dominated by the ax.[b8] --Dickens. We everywhere meet with Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated. --W. Tooke.