predominant

• prædominant (obsolete)

From Middle French prédominant. By surface analysis, pre- +‎ dominant.

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnənt/

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predominant (comparative more predominant, superlative most predominant)

1. Common or widespread; prevalent.
2. Significant or important; dominant.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Truth of Presentiments”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 305:

     On Lord Marchmont's return, he, too, was struck with the unusual appearance of confusion in his hall; but anger was his predominant sensation when he heard that Henrietta had actually set off without waiting one moment.

• predominantly

• predominance
• predominate

predominant (plural predominants)

1. (music) A subdominant.

• “predominant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pɾə.ðu.miˈnan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pɾə.ðo.miˈnant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pɾe.ðo.miˈnant]

predominant m or f (masculine and feminine plural predominants)

1. predominant

• predominantment

• predominar

• “predominant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “predominant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “predominant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “predominant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

predominant

1. gerund of predominar

Borrowed from French prédominant.

predominant m or n (feminine singular predominantă, masculine plural predominanți, feminine and neuter plural predominante)

1. predominant