predominate

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.
   • 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.2018 June 24, Annette Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger and Amanda Barrett Cox, “How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2019
   • These qualities tend to predominate among conservatives but they are present among liberals too.2021 April 29, Sabrina Tavernise, “Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2021
2. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
   • All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness.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
   • 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.1887 March 1, “SHOTS THROUGH A WINDOW.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024
3. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.

Adjective

IPA/pɹɪˈdɒmɪnət/

predominate (comparative more predominate, superlative most predominate)

1. (proscribed, sometimes) Predominant.
   • Eradication of disorder may indirectly reduce crime by stabilizing neighborhoods, but the direct link as formulated by proponents was not the predominate one in our study.1999 11, Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 105...