[
UK
/pɹɪdˈɒmɪnənt/
]
[ US /pɹɪˈdɑmənənt/ ]
[ US /pɹɪˈdɑmənənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having superior power and influence
the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism -
most frequent or common
prevailing winds
How To Use predominant In A Sentence
- This part of the film develops slowly, and is predominantly a straight drama.
- Research forms the predominant part of my job.
- A varietal is a wine made predominantly from one specific grape and is labeled as such, for example, California Merlot.
- Burundi and Rwanda are predominantly agricultural economies with their primary exports being coffee and tea.
- And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
- Since the feminine is out of balance in the female body and the predominant culture, women are not receiving the nurturance they need to fuel their outer work. Wild Feminine
- Thylakoids of grana stacks are mostly abundant in PSII complexes, while PSI complexes are predominant in stroma lamellae.
- The predominant opinion voiced by Detroit's Arab population seems to be one of frustration.
- Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation. Archive 2006-11-01
- The Mediterranean at this particular spot is any colour except blue, the predominant hue being dirty grey.