predominate
English
editAlternative forms
edit- prædominate (obsolete)
Pronunciation
edit- (verb) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈdɒmɪneɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (adjective) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editpredominate (third-person singular simple present predominates, present participle predominating, simple past and past participle predominated)
- (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
- (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXXIV. Confidence.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 296:
- All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness.
- 1999, Galí, Jordi and Mark Gertler, “Inflation dynamics: A structural econometric analysis”, in Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 44, page 215:
- Thus, even though a total of four lags of inflation enters the right hand side, forward looking behavior still predominates.
- (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editto dominate, succeed by superior numbers
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to be prominent
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Adjective
editpredominate
- (sometimes proscribed) Predominant.
Usage notes
edit- Predominate is and has been much less common than predominant as an adjective.
- Some usage and style authorities frown on predominate as an adjective. For example, Garner's Modern American Usage calls it a "needless variant" and discourages its use on the grounds that it might cause a reader to interpret it as the verb, which has the same spelling.
Translations
editpredominant — see predominant
Anagrams
editItalian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editpredominate
- inflection of predominare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editpredominate f pl
Anagrams
editSpanish
editVerb
editpredominate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of predominar combined with te
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