Associations to the word «Predominant»

Wiktionary

PREDOMINANT, adjective. Common or widespread; prevalent
PREDOMINANT, adjective. Significant or important; dominant
PREDOMINANT, noun. (music) A subdominant.

Dictionary definition

PREDOMINANT, adjective. Most frequent or common; "prevailing winds".
PREDOMINANT, adjective. Having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne