Preponderant

Quick meaning: Preponderant is an adjective meaning Having greater or the greatest weight, quantity, importance or force.

Meaning

Having greater or the greatest weight, quantity, importance or force.

Example Sentences

Women continue to play a preponderant role in caregiving.

The judge gave preponderant weight to the physical evidence.

For the present, however, the Swedes were the preponderant party in the neighbourhood; they had fortified the chateau of Falkenberg, and made it a very strong military post;

The place was much like any ordinary lab., crowded with jars, test-tubes, retorts and so on. It evidently served for work on both the physical and the biological sciences, but the biological was preponderant.

Synonyms for preponderant

Depending on context, synonyms include dominant, overriding, predominant, predominate, preponderating, paramount.

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