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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
all-absorbing, arch, ascendant, at the head, average, banner, besetting, boss, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, commanding, common, controlling, crowning, current, dominant, epidemic, first, focal, foremost, general, governing, great, head, headmost, hegemonic, hegemonistic, highest, important, in ascendancy, in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, influential, leading, magisterial, main, major, master, normal, number one, on the throne, ordinary, outstanding, overbearing, overriding, overruling, pandemic, paramount, popular, predominate, predominating, preeminent, premier, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prevailing, prevalent, primal, primary, prime, principal, rampant, ranking, regnant, regulating, regulative, regulatory, reigning, rife, routine, ruling, running, sovereign, standard, star, stellar, stereotyped, supereminent, superior, supreme, swaying, telling, topflight, topmost, transcendant, uppermost, usual
Dictionary Results for predominant:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
predominant
    adj 1: most frequent or common; "prevailing winds" [syn:
           prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant,
           rife]
    2: having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood
       among policy-makers is optimism" [syn: overriding,
       paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant,
       preponderating]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Predominant \Pre*dom"i*nant\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]dominant. See
   Predominante.]
   Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength,
   influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color;
   predominant excellence.
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         Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind.
                                                  --Bacon.
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         Foul subordination is predominant.       --Shak.
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   Syn: Prevalent; superior; prevailing; ascendant; ruling;
        reigning; controlling; overruling.
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