Predominate

Quick meaning: Predominate is a verb meaning (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• predominates
• predominating
• predominated

Synonyms for predominate

Depending on context, synonyms include preponderate, prevail, dominant, predominant, rule, dominate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prevail, preponderant, paramount, predominant, dominate, overriding.

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