predominate
/pɹɪˈdɒmɪneɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
Transitive verb
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "These qualities tend to predominate among conservatives but they are present among liberals too."
- "All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness."
- "During the silk weavers strike on Jersey City Heights and in West Hoboken last Summer, Poidebard's mill was regarded as especially obnoxious by the strikers, and the largely predominating Socialist element among them frequently menaced it with attack."
- "Thus, even though a total of four lags of inflation enters the right hand side, forward looking behavior still predominates."
- "Eradication of disorder may indirectly reduce crime by stabilizing neighborhoods, but the direct link as formulated by proponents was not the predominate one in our study."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: praedominātus
Usage
Inflected Forms
predominates (present, singular)
predominating (participle, present)
predominated (participle, past)
predominated (past)
prædominate (alternative, obsolete)
more predominate (comparative)
most predominate (superlative)