preponderating
81preponderance — n. 1. Outweighing, preponderating. 2. Superiority of weight, influence, or power, ascendency …
82preponderant — a. Outweighing, overbalancing, preponderating …
83prevailing — a. 1. Effectual, dominant, predominant, efficacious, preponderating, persuading, controlling, ruling, overruling, influential, operative, successful. 2. Prevalent, most common, most general …
84chief# — chief n Chief, chieftain, head, headman, leader, master are comparable when they mean the person in whom resides authority or ruling power but they differ in their applications and associations. Chief is the most comprehensive of these terms,… …
85paramount — preponderant, preponderating, predominant, *dominant, sovereign Analogous words: *supreme, surpassing, preeminent, superlative: capital, foremost, principal, main, leading, *chief …
86predominant — *dominant, paramount, preponderant, preponderating, sovereign Analogous words: controlling, directing, conducting, managing (see CONDUCT vb): *prevailing, prevalent: *chief, principal, leading, main, foremost Contrasted words: *subordinate,… …
87preponderant — preponderant, preponderating *dominant, predominant, paramount, sovereign Analogous words: *supreme, preeminent, transcendent, surpassing: outstanding, salient, signal (see NOTICEABLE) …
88sovereign — adj 1 *dominant, predominant, paramount, preponderant, preponderating Analogous words: *supreme, transcendent, surpassing: absolute, *ultimate 2 independent, *free, autonomous, autarchic, autarkic Analogous words: highest, loftiest (see positiv …
89preponderant — adj 1. prevalent, prevailing, widespread, extensive, comprehensive, preponderating; major, greater, larger, large, higher. 2. important, Sl. big time, capital, principal, chief, leading, foremost, recognized; ascendant, dominant, predominant,… …
90prevailing — adj 1. predominant, preponderant, preponderating, dominant, dominating; ruling, regnant, reigning; preeminent, supreme, chief, principal. 2. prevalent, current. See prevalent. 3. effective, effectual, telling, moving, affecting, powerful, potent …
