Predominate

/pɹɪˈdɒmɪneɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
2. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
3. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
4. (sometimes proscribed) Predominant.

Example Sentences

With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate.

These qualities tend to predominate among conservatives but they are present among liberals too.

All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness.

During the silk weavers strike on Jersey City Heights and in West Hoboken last Summer, Poidebard's mill was regarded as especially obnoxious by the strikers, and the largely predominating Socialist element among them frequently menaced it with attack.

Thus, even though a total of four lags of inflation enters the right hand side, forward looking behavior still predominates.

Eradication of disorder may indirectly reduce crime by stabilizing neighborhoods, but the direct link as formulated by proponents was not the predominate one in our study.

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Word Forms

• predominates
• predominating
• predominated
• prædominate
• more predominate
• most predominate

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