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præferred

præferred is the obsolete spelling of preferred.

præferred is the simple past and past participle of præfer.

Meaning of preferred

Adjective

preferred (comparative more preferred, superlative most preferred)

  1. favoured

See all 2 meanings of preferred

Forms of præferred

comparativemore præferred
superlativemost præferred

Questions about præferred

What is præferred the obsolete spelling of?
Præferred is the obsolete spelling of preferred.

Words near præferred in the dictionary

  1. præfer'd
  2. præferable
  3. præference
  4. præferences
  5. præferre
  6. præferred
  7. præferres
  8. præferring
  9. præfers
  10. præfiguration
  11. præfigurations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præferred (page history and authors); preferred (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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