States and conditions
Synonyms for dominating
Synonyms for dominating: ascendant and bossy. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for dominating
Interchangeable with dominating in this sense
Audited under dominating's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one dominating carries in that sense.
- ascendantadjective, in the sense "most powerful or important or influential"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name dominating as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- bossybossy is an adjective in the sense "offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under dominating and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
most powerful or important or influential
D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe.
The true synonym
ascendant
Same sentence, swapped: D-day is considered the ascendant event of the war in Europe.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- overlooking
- bossy
- peremptory
Where dominating turns up in the game
dominating is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
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