Superior
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Higher in quality. Higher in rank. Located above. Being greater or better than average; extraordinary.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A person of higher rank or quality. The senior person in a monastic community.
Example sentence: There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Dominant
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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.The triad built on the dominant tone.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
Example sentence: The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.