In this paper, we analyze the relation between some classes of matrices with variants of the diagonal dominance property. We establish a sufficient condition for a generalized doubly diagonally dominant matrix to be invertible. Sufficient conditions for a matrix to be strictly generalized diagonally dominant are also presented. We provide a sufficient condition for the invertibility of a cyclically diagonally dominant matrix. These sufficient conditions do not assume the irreducibility of the matrix. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.