Prevalent
['prev(ə)l(ə)nt] or ['prɛvələnt]
Definition
(a.) Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.
(a.) Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Superior, victorious, predominant, successful.[2]. Powerful, efficacious, effectual.[3]. Received (generally), established, current, ordinary, usual, PREVAILING, widely extended, most general.
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Examples
- Redwood lumber, being light in weight and singularly free from many of the defects so prevalent in other wood, is extremely easy to work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Too much heat is more prevalent than too little. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Ideas of worldly rule by the Church were already prevalent in the fourth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was prevalent everywhere. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The knowledge that drunkenness or insanity has been prevalent in a family may be the best safeguard against their recurrence in a future generation. Plato. The Republic.
- But colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But upon the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea winds are more prevalent, seas run higher, the shore is often a danger rather than a refuge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He condemned, for instance, the prevalent belief in the transmigration of souls. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I need not say how rejoiced I shall be to hear there has been any mistake, but the report is so prevalent that I confess I cannot help trembling. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- There was a prevalent delusion in France that England was a land of liberty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We give the prevalent view. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Oxen tread the wheat from the ear, after the fashion prevalent in the time of Methuselah. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The prevalent lie is to explain how the new convert, standing upon a mountain of facts, began to trace out the highways that led from hell to heaven. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In the second place, he opposed the prevalent feeling, because with many capacities of being otherwise, he was an ill-conditioned man. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Catarrh is a very prevalent disease in America, and consequently numerous catarrh remedies have been devised, most of which contain in a disguised form the pernicious drug, cocaine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They were certainly already mingling in Central Asia with Mongolian tribes, but the Mongolian tribes were not then prevalent there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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