predominate

English

Alternative forms

• prædominate (obsolete)

Etymology

By surface analysis, pre- +‎ dominate.

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈdɒmɪneɪt/

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• (adjective) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnət/

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Verb

predominate (third-person singular simple present predominates, present participle predominating, simple past and past participle predominated)

1. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
   • 2018 June 24, Annette Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger and Amanda Barrett Cox, “How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate.

2. (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.

   • 1887 March 1, “SHOTS THROUGH A WINDOW.”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     During the silk weavers strike on Jersey City Heights and in West Hoboken last Summer, Poidebard's mill was regarded as especially obnoxious by the strikers, and the largely predominating Socialist element among them frequently menaced it with attack.

   • 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.

3. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.

Synonyms

• preponderate
• prevail

Translations

to dominate, succeed by superior numbers

• Portuguese: predominar (pt)

to be prominent

• Portuguese: predominar (pt)

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Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} vorherrschen (de)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} predominare (it) (all)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} predomina (ro)

Adjective

predominate

1. (sometimes proscribed) Predominant.

Usage notes

• 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

predominant — see predominant

Anagrams

• pentameroid

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

predominate

1. inflection of predominare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

predominate f pl

1. feminine plural of predominato

Anagrams

• pena di morte, perdonatemi, premeditano, pretendiamo

Spanish

Verb

predominate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of predominar combined with te