Predominant
[prɪ'dɒmɪnənt] or [prɪ'dɑmənənt]
Definition
(a.) Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence.
Typist: Theodore
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Prevailing, prevalent, supreme, ascendant, overruling, dominant, sovereign.
Checker: Williams
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prevailing, ascendant, prevalent, superior, overruling,[See SUPERIOR]
Edited by Jessica
Examples
- Influenced by his predominant idea, he even fell into a habit of discussing with himself the possibility of her being in some way associated with it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, at last we may find him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The feeling called love is and has been for two years the predominant emotion of my heart--always there, always awake, always astir. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That regret was the predominant feeling, on the first occasion of her receiving a proposal. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Whether this proceeds from the principle above-mentioned, that any attendant emotion is easily converted into the predominant, I shall not determine. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- With many, in all forms of word-consciousness, the auditory image is predominant. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The predominant passion swallows up the inferior, and converts it into itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He knew that the transmission of life deserves special s tudy as the predominant function of the various species of plants and animals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The fact of predominant interest to the historian of mankind is this _will to crusade_ suddenly revealed as a new mass possibility in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Jessica