DOMINATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dominated mean? 

• DOMINATED (adjective)
  The adjective DOMINATED has 2 senses:

1. controlled or ruled by superior authority or power

2. harassed by persistent nagging

  Familiarity information: DOMINATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMINATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Controlled or ruled by superior authority or power

Similar:

controlled (restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Harassed by persistent nagging

Synonyms:

dominated; henpecked

Similar:

submissive (inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination)

 Context examples 

Such atmospheric nuclear testing has long since stopped, and the present space environment remains dominated by natural phenomena.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

There were significant differences in the timing of these milestones between regions dominated by the two types of fungi.

(NASA Satellite Images Uncover Underground Forest Fungi, NASA)

Syndrome dominated by involuntary, sustained or spasmodic, patterned, and repetitive muscle contractions; frequently causing twisting, flexing or extending, and squeezing movements or abnormal postures.

(Dystonia, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Specifically, they discovered that the exoplanets TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c, approximately 40 light-years away, are unlikely to have puffy, hydrogen-dominated atmospheres usually found on gaseous worlds.

(Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets, NASA)

This side of Pluto is dominated by three broad regions of varying brightness.

(A “Heart” from Pluto as Flyby Begins, NASA)

The mass of a galaxy is dominated by its dark side, an immense amount of matter that is unseen by telescopes.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Since 2007 the probe has been traveling through the outermost layer of the heliosphere — the vast bubble around the Sun and the planets dominated by solar material and magnetic fields.

(NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space, NASA)

Cells with greater ability to proliferate dominated the tumors over time, and that metastases were seeded by a small set of cells.

(Novel Approach Gives Insights Into Tumor Development, NIH)

WMO notes warmer than average temperatures dominated across much of the world’s land and ocean surfaces during November.

(World Meteorological Org.: Arctic Warming Appears Irreversible, VOA)

A benign epithelial neoplasm with a uniform, monomorphic appearance that is dominated by basal cells.

(Experimental Organism Basal Cell Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)