Word Meanings - PREDOMINANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak.
Additional info about word: PREDOMINANT
Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak. Syn. -- Prevalent; superior; prevailing; ascendant; ruling; reigning; controlling; overruling.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREDOMINANT)
- Pre-eminent
- Paramount
- predominant
- egregious
- consummate
- prevailing
- Prevailing
- Controlling
- ruling
- influential
- operative
- prevalent
- rife
- ascendant
- most general
- most common
- Ruling
- Governing
- reigning
- controlling
- masterful
- regulating
- Sovereign
- supreme
- primary
- chief
- certain
- efficacious
- principal
- superior
- imperial
- regal
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PREDOMINANT)
Related words: (words related to PREDOMINANT)
- PRINCIPALNESS
The quality of being principal. - CHIEFLESS
Without a chief or leader. - CONSUMMATELY
In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton. - PRINCIPALITY
preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. - COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - CONTROLLABLENESS
Capability of being controlled. - SUPREME
Situated at the highest part or point. The Supreme, the Almighty; God. (more info) above, upper, fr. super above: cf. F. suprême. See Super-, and cf. 1. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power. He that - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - PREVALENTLY
In a prevalent manner. Prior. - PREDOMINANT
Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - REGALIAN
Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives. Hallam. - FRUSTRATE
Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr, - REGALIA
1. That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: The rights and prerogatives of a king. Royal estates and revenues. Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty. 2. Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd - COMMONISH
Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar. - INTERRUPTION
1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to - CHIEFEST
First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10. - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - GOVERNORSHIP
The office of a governor. - COMMONLY
1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - UNCOMMON
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n. - OVERRULING
Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv. - MISGOVERNED
Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak. - FERULIC
Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida ; as, ferulic acid. - CHONDRULE
A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - PREIGNITION
Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - MEDREGAL
See 3 - INTERCOMMON
To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - KERCHIEF
couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in - PURULENCE; PURULENCY
The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot. - TORULA
A chain of special bacteria. A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.