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predominant

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Adjective
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pre=dom=i=nant

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective predominant has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

predominanta. [Cf. F. prédominant. See Predominante.].
     Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence.  [1913 Webster]
    "Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind."  [1913 Webster]
    "Foul subordination is predominant."  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Prevalent; superior; prevailing; ascendant; ruling; reigning; controlling; overruling.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

predominant, adj.
1 predominating.
2 being the strongest or main element.

Derivative
predominance n. predominantly adv.

THESAURUS

predominant

all-absorbing, arch, ascendant, at the head, average, banner, besetting, boss, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, commanding, common, controlling, crowning, current, dominant, epidemic, first, focal, foremost, general, governing, great, head, headmost, hegemonic, hegemonistic, highest, important, in ascendancy, in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, influential, leading, magisterial, main, major, master, normal, number one, on the throne, ordinary, outstanding, overbearing, overriding, overruling, pandemic, paramount, popular, predominate, predominating, preeminent, premier, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prevailing, prevalent, primal, primary, prime, principal, rampant, ranking, regnant, regulating, regulative, regulatory, reigning, rife, routine, ruling, running, sovereign, standard, star, stellar, stereotyped, supereminent, superior, supreme, swaying, telling, topflight, topmost, transcendant, uppermost, usual

ROGET THESAURUS

predominant

Authority

N authority, influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction, right, direction, government, divine right, dynastic rights, authoritativeness, absoluteness, absolutism, despotism, jus nocendi, jus divinum, mastery, mastership, masterdom, dictation, control, hold, grasp, grip, gripe, reach, iron sway, fangs, clutches, talons, rod of empire, commission, deputy, permission, at the head, dominant, paramount, supreme, predominant, preponderant, in the ascendant, influential, arbitrary, compulsory, stringent, at one's command, in one's power, in one's grasp, under control, in the name of, by the authority of, de par le Roi, in virtue of, under the auspices of, in the hands of, at one's pleasure, by a dash if the pen, by a stroke of the pen, ex mero motu, ex cathedra, from the chair, the gray mare the better horse, every inch a king.

Influence

N influence, importance, weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway, predominance, predominancy, ascendency, dominance, reign, control, domination, pull, authority, capability, effect, interest, synergy (cooperation), footing, purchase, play, leverage, vantage ground, tower of strength, host in himself, protection, patronage, auspices, influential, effective, important, weighty, prevailing, prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the ascendant, hegemonical, with telling effect, tel maure tel valet.

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