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- pronunciation:
- prih
dam
nnt
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
being the chief or greatest in importance, status, influence, or the like.
Rome was the predominant power in the Mediterranean region for many centuries.- synonyms:
- chief, foremost, leading, main, paramount, primary, principal, supreme
- antonyms:
- subordinate, subsidiary
- similar words:
- ascendant, capital, dominant, greatest, major, master, preeminent, prevailing, prime, ruling, sovereign, top
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| definition 2: |
being the most common, frequent, or prominent; prevailing.
The predominant opinion among the city's people is that the mayor should resign.Brown trout and rainbow trout are the predominant species in this part of the river.
- synonyms:
- prevailing
- similar words:
- common, prevalent, primary, ruling, widespread
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| related words: |
current, first, supreme |
adverb + (adj.)predominant
culturally, normally, overwhelmingly
(adj.)predominant
+ noun
actor,
attraction,
bacterium,
cause,
characteristic,
circuit,
color,
component,
concern,
criterion,
culture,
current,
discourse,
emotion,
emphasis,
exposure,
expression,
factor,
fat,
feature,
fiction,
flavor,
flow,
focus,
form,
gear,
gender,
green,
ideology,
image,
impairment,
influence,
interaction,
language,
literature,
means,
mechanism,
method,
mode,
model,
motif,
norm,
organism,
orientation,
paradigm,
pattern,
personality,
philosophy,
population,
portion,
position,
practice,
prey,
professional,
region,
religion,
representation,
role,
sentiment,
sleep,
source,
species,
style,
supplier,
symptom,
taste,
tendency,
theme,
theory,
thinking,
tone,
tradition,
trend,
type,
view,
virus,
wave,
wind
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| derivations: |
predominantly (adv.), predominance (n.) |
The word predominant
contains the following parts:
dom1, domin
Latin
root
that means master
  Example words:
-ant, -ent
Latin
adjective- and noun-forming suffix
that means (in adjectives) doing the action denoted by the verb root; (in nouns) one who or that which does the action denoted by the verb root.
More about this word part:
The suffix -ant
, -ent
forms adjectives and, to a much lesser extent, nouns from Latin verb stems such as fid in confident
and stud in student
. This suffix is the equivalent in Latin of the "-ing" inflection in English. Many adjectives ending in -ant
, -ent
have a corresponding noun ending in -ance, -ence, -ancy, -ency.
Example words:
aberrant, accident, accidental, adherent, adjacent, affluent, agent, alterant, ambient, antecedent, applicant, arrogant, benevolent, coherent, combatant, complacent, confidant, confident, consequent, consultant, continent, conversant, current, defoliant, dependent, different, disinfectant, dissonant, dominant, efficient, eloquent, equilibrant, exorbitant, extravagant, fluent, hydrant, ignorant, important, inadvertent, incessant, incognizant, inconsonant, indignant, informant, itinerant, malevolent, miscreant, parent, participant, patient, precedent, predominant, president, prudent, pungent, recreant, reluctant, repugnant, resident, resonant, servant, significant, student, tenant, transcendent, vacant, vagrant, variant, verdant
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