Crossword clues for dominating
dominating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dominating \dominating\ adj.
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exercising influence or control. Opposite of subordinate.
Syn: ascendant, ascendent, prestigious, dominant.
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high enough to provide a clear view of the surrounding area; -- of a height or viewpoint.
Syn: commanding, overlooking.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of dominate English)
WordNet
adj. most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe" [syn: ascendant, ascendent]
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" [syn: commanding, 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" [syn: autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory]
Usage examples of "dominating".
He glared at me in return, then suddenly pulled me close in an extremely hard, dominating kiss.
Rather it acts as an absolutely positive force that pushes the dominating power toward an abstract and empty unification, to which it appears as the distinct alternative.
The flip side of the structure that resists foreign powers is itself a dominating power that exerts an equal and opposite internal oppression, repressing internal difference and opposition in the name of national identity, unity, and security.
What if the dominating powers that are the intended object of critique have mutated in such a way as to depotentialize any such postmodernist challenge?
At the same time, then, a second path had to come into play, one that would involve a technological transformation aimed no longer only at repression but rather at changing the very composition of the proletariat, and thus integrating, dominating, and profiting from its new practices and forms.
Half the city was in flames, or rubble, and the death toll was in the hundreds of thousands, but the uber-espers had won, crushing and dominating the weaker minds of the ELF leaders, who turned out to be only human after all, and therefore limited in the evil they could conceive.