preponderant
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| —adj | |
| greater in weight, force, influence, etc | |
| pre'ponderancy | |
| —n | |
| pre'ponderantly | |
| —adv | |
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Preponderant
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Example sentences
The evidence of human activities as the cause of global warming is not conclusive but it is preponderant.
The temples will have an eerie feeling without his preponderant voice being spoken.
If the religious become numerically preponderant it may be that the atavistic battles of the past will come back to life.
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