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predominantly

/pɹɪˈdɒmɪnəntli/

predominantly adverb: in a predominant manner. Most commonly or frequently by a large margin.

Adverb

predominantly (comparative more predominantly, superlative most predominantly)

  1. In a predominant manner. Most commonly or frequently by a large margin.
    • The membership is predominantly elderly, as 90% are over age 60.
    • Both groups are predominantly confined to areas with warm to tropical climates[…]1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 3

predominantly meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Indonesian

predominantly in Urdu

زیادہ تر

predominantly in Malayalam

mostly, mainly, for the most part
പ്രബലമായി, മുഖ്യമായി, പ്രധാനമായി, അധികവും, സുശക്തമായി, മിക്കവാറും

predominantly in Indonesian

in a predominant manner
sebagian besar

Examples of predominantly in a sentence

  • Oromia is home to over 40 million people, predominantly from the Oromo people.
  • From a society of a white elite ruling over a predominantly enslaved Black subaltern population, the Haitian Revolution generated a slaveless country that proceeded to suffer with socioeconomic divides.
  • Myofascial geloses can exist on both sides, but the pain predominantly occurs on the hypertension side.

All 40 example sentences with predominantly

Synonyms of predominantly

Forms of predominantly

comparativemore predominantly
superlativemost predominantly

Origin of predominantly

From predominant + -ly.

Questions about predominantly

What does predominantly mean?
Predominantly means in a predominant manner. Most commonly or frequently by a large margin.
What is predominantly in Urdu?
Predominantly in Urdu is زیادہ تر. See Predominantly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is predominantly?
Predominantly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce predominantly?
Predominantly is pronounced /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnəntli/.

Words near predominantly in the dictionary

  1. predominance
  2. predominances
  3. predominancies
  4. predominancy
  5. predominant
  6. predominantly
  7. predominants
  8. predominate
  9. predominated
  10. predominately
  11. predominates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: predominantly (page history and authors); predominantly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); predominantly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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