preponderant

See also: prépondérant

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for preponderant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Adjective

preponderant (comparative more preponderant, superlative most preponderant)

  1. Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing.
    a preponderant weight;   a topic of preponderant importance
    • 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:
      Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?

References
  • preponderant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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