Antonyms for recessive

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ri-ses-iv

Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈsɛs ɪv

Definition of recessive

Origin : 1670s, from Latin recess-, past participle stem of recedere (see recede) + -ive. Linguistics sense is from 1879; in genetics, 1900, from German recessiv (Mendel, 1865). Related: Recessiveness.

adj passive

Example sentences :

The Himalayan pattern behaves as a recessive to self-colour.
Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett

The defect seems to behave in the manner of a Mendelian recessive.
Extract from : « Being Well-Born » by Michael F. Guyer

Yellow is said therefore to be dominant and green to be recessive.
Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan

This normal factor is recessive for notch but dominant for life.
Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan

The preceding examples have all related to recessive characters.
Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan

So it is with the Dominant and the Recessive traits in living organisms.
Extract from : « Feminism and Sex-Extinction » by Arabella Kenealy

Defectiveness is a recessive factor; normality a dominant one.
Extract from : « Crime: Its Cause and Treatment » by Clarence Darrow

Feeble-mindedness, for example, seems to be a Mendelian character and recessive.
Extract from : « The Science of Human Nature » by William Henry Pyle

In fact, European life had been intensive and recessive ever since the fall of the Roman Empire a thousand years before.
Extract from : « The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy » by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard

Mediocrity, as every Mendelian knows, is a dominant character, and extraordinary ability is recessive character.
Extract from : « In Defense of Women » by H. L. Mencken

Synonyms for recessive

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