Another word for prevailing
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Adjective
Most generally existing or encountered at a given time
- Spread or scattered over a considerable extent:
- Occurring or accepted widely:
- In widespread existence, practice, or use; increasingly prevalent.
- Abundant or numerous.
- Reigning; ruling:
- Predominant.
- Widespread; prevalent.
- Widely or commonly occurring, existing, accepted, or practiced.
- Having the most importance, influence, or force:
- Most common or conspicuous; main or prevalent:
- Belonging to the present time:
- Being in progress now:
- Passing from one to another; circulating:
See also:Having preeminent significance
- Greatest in power, authority, or rank; paramount or dominant.
- Greatest in importance, degree, significance, character, or achievement.
- Ultimate; final:
- Exercising control or authority:
- Predominant:
- The act of governing or controlling.
- Reigning; ruling:
- Predominant.
- Widespread; prevalent.
- Greater in power, influence, or force than another or others; predominant.
- Of, having, or exhibiting prepotency.
- Having the most importance, influence, or force:
- Most common or conspicuous; main or prevalent:
- Exercising the most power, control, or influence:
- Most abundant or conspicuous; predominant:
- Higher; overlooking:
- Inclining or moving upward; ascending or rising.
- Dominant in position or influence; superior.
- The position or state of being dominant or in control:
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Another word for prevailing
Modifier
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- Commonly encountered, experienced, or observed:
- Regularly or customarily used:
- In conformity with regular practice or procedure:
- First or highest in rank or importance.
- Of, relating to, or being financial principal, or a principal in a financial transaction.
- One who holds a position of presiding rank, especially the head of an elementary school, middle school, or high school.
- One who is highest in rank or authority; a leader.
- A chief petty officer.
- The chief engineer of a ship.
- Exercising control or authority:
- Predominant:
- The act of governing or controlling.
- Extending unchecked; unrestrained:
- Occurring without restraint and frequently, widely, or menacingly; rife:
- Rearing on the hind legs.
- Spread or scattered over a considerable extent:
- Occurring or accepted widely:
- So large in scope or content as to include much:
- Marked by or showing extensive understanding:
- An examination or series of examinations covering the entire field of major study, given to a student in the final year of undergraduate or graduate study.
- Having wide-ranging influence or effect:
- Moving in or as if in a wide curve:
- Indiscriminate; wholesale:
- Involving or extending throughout the entire world; universal:
- Throughout the world:
- Of, relating to, or affecting the entire universe:
- Including, relating to, or affecting all members of the class or group under consideration; applicable in all cases:
- Done, produced, or shared by all members of the class or group under consideration:
- Exercising the most power, control, or influence:
- Most abundant or conspicuous; predominant:
- Higher; overlooking:
- Having the most importance, influence, or force:
- Most common or conspicuous; main or prevalent:
- Firm in position or place; fixed.
- Direct and unfaltering; sure.
- Free or almost free from change, variation, or fluctuation; uniform:
- Customary, usual, or normal:
- Orderly, even, or symmetrical:
- In conformity with a fixed procedure, principle, or discipline.
- Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint:
- Of or relating to the community as a whole; public:
- Widespread; prevalent:
- Widely liked or appreciated:
- Liked by acquaintances; sought after for company:
- Of, representing, or carried on by the people at large:
- In widespread existence, practice, or use; increasingly prevalent.
- Abundant or numerous.
- Belonging to the present time:
- Being in progress now:
- Passing from one to another; circulating:
- Concerned with, applicable to, or affecting the whole or every member of a class or category:
- Affecting or characteristic of the majority of those involved; prevalent:
- Of or affecting the entire body:
- Widely or commonly occurring, existing, accepted, or practiced.
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Synonym Study
- Rife implies rapidly increasing prevalence and often connotes excitement or alarm rumors about war were rife
- Prevalent implies widespread occurrence or acceptance but does not now connote the predominance of prevailing a prevalent belief
- Current refers to that which is commonly accepted or in general usage at the time specified or, if unspecified, at the present time a pronunciation current in the 18th century
- Prevailing applies to that which leads all others in acceptance, usage, belief, etc. at a given time and in a given place a prevailing practice
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