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Dominant vs. Submissive — What's the Difference?

Dominant vs. Submissive — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dominant and Submissive

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Dominant

Exercising the most power, control, or influence
The dominant nations during the Cold War.

Submissive

Inclined or willing to submit.

Dominant

Most abundant or conspicuous; predominant
"[The fireplaces'] shallow brick arches are a relief from the dominant squares and verticals of the windows and doors" (Stephen A. Kliment).

Submissive

Obedient or passive.

Dominant

Higher; overlooking
Dominant hills.
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Submissive

(BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in BDSM practices.

Dominant

Tending to be stronger than its counterpart or used for the most important tasks or in the most pressing situations
Which is your dominant eye? Throw the ball with your dominant arm.

Submissive

(rare) One who submits.

Dominant

(Genetics) Of, relating to, or being an allele that produces the same phenotypic effect in heterozygotes as in homozygotes.

Submissive

Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.
Not at his feet submissive in distress,Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking.

Dominant

(Ecology) Of, relating to, or being a species that is most characteristic of an ecological community and usually determines the presence, abundance, and type of other species.

Submissive

Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor.
With a submissive step I hasted down.

Dominant

(Music) Relating to or based on the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.

Submissive

Inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination;
Submissive servants
A submissive reply
Replacing troublemakers with more submissive people

Dominant

(Genetics) A dominant allele or a trait produced by a dominant allele.

Submissive

Willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent

Dominant

(Ecology) A dominant species.

Submissive

Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
Slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
A slavish yes-man to the party bosses
She has become submissive and subservient

Dominant

(Music) The fifth tone of a diatonic scale.

Dominant

(music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

Dominant

(music) The triad built on the dominant tone.

Dominant

(genetics) A gene that is dominant.

Dominant

A species or organism that is dominant.

Dominant

(BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

Dominant

Ruling; governing; prevailing
The dominant party controlled the government.

Dominant

Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.

Dominant

Preferred and used with greater dexterity than the other, as the right hand of a right-handed person or the left hand of a left-handed one.

Dominant

(medicine) Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.

Dominant

(music) Being the dominant
Dominant seventh

Dominant

Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel.

Dominant

The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

Dominant

(music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale

Dominant

Exercising influence or control;
Television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion
The dominant partner in the marriage

Dominant

Of genes; producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar

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