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Preponderant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Having superior weight, force, importance, or influence. See Synonyms at dominant.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Outweighing; preponderating; superior in weight, force, efficiency, or influence; predominant; prevalent.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having superior power and influence

Word Usage

"Gertzman argues that moral reformers during this period were “correct to claim that the traffic in ‘pornography’ was vigorous in the 1920s and 1930s, and that Jews were preponderant as distributors of gallantiana erotic fiction, avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and the most flagitious materials.”"

Equivalent

dominant

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

preponderating outweighing overbalancing controlling prevalent

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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