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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
arch, ascendant, at the head, banner, boss, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, commanding, controlling, crowning, dominant, first, focal, foremost, general, governing, great, head, headmost, hegemonic, hegemonistic, in ascendancy, in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, leading, magisterial, main, master, on the throne, overbearing, overruling, paramount, predominant, predominate, preeminent, prepollent, preponderate, prepotent, prevailing, prevalent, primal, primary, prime, principal, ranking, regnant, regulating, regulative, regulatory, reigning, ruling, sovereign, star, stellar, supereminent, supreme, swaying, topflight
Dictionary Results for preponderant:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
preponderant
    adj 1: 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
Preponderant \Pre*pon"der*ant\, a. [L. praeponderans, -antis:
   cf. F. pr['e]pond['e]rant. See Preponderate.]
   Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally
   and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant
   importance. -- Pre*pon"der*ant*ly, adv.
   [1913 Webster]

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