predominantly

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/pɹɪˈdɒmɪnəntli/

adverb

In a predominant manner. Most commonly or frequently by a large margin.

“The membership is predominantly elderly, as 90% are over age 60.”

Less commonScrabble 21

Meanings

adverbpredominantly (comparative more predominantly, superlative most predominantly)

comparative more predominantly · superlative most predominantly

  1. In a predominant manner. Most commonly or frequently by a large margin.

    The membership is predominantly elderly, as 90% are over age 60.

    3 more examples

    Both groups are predominantly confined to areas with warm to tropical climates[…]

    1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 3

    The first phase of our pilot study found that the signage on the campus grounds was well regulated by the institution and was predominantly English.

    2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5

    “With the food packages that we drop off, we are adding messages in the local dialect of Xhosa, because this is predominately for the Xhosa areas,” Kolisi said.

    2020 April 28, Christina Macfarlane, “‘There is nothing worse than hunger,’ says South Africa hero Siya Kolisi of helping townships during lockdown”, in CNN

    Synonyms: primarily, principally, usually

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbIn a predominant manner. Most commonly or frequently by a large margin.

More synonyms by meaning

adverbmuch greater in number or influence

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian преимуществено
  • преимуществено (preimuštestveno)in a predominant manner
Catalan predominantment
  • predominantmentin a predominant manner
Chinese Mandarin 大部分
  • 大部分 (dàbùfèn)in a predominant manner
Czech převážně
  • převážněin a predominant manner
Finnish lähinnä, etupäässä
  • lähinnäin a predominant manner
  • etupäässäin a predominant manner
  • valtaosinin a predominant manner
  • valtaosaltaanin a predominant manner
French principalement, majoritairement
  • principalementin a predominant manner
  • majoritairementin a predominant manner
  • essentiellementin a predominant manner
German vorwiegend, überwiegend
  • vorwiegendin a predominant manner
  • überwiegendin a predominant manner
  • hauptsächlichin a predominant manner
  • vorrangigin a predominant manner
Hungarian túlnyomóan, túlnyomórészt
  • túlnyomóanin a predominant manner
  • túlnyomórésztin a predominant manner
Indonesian sebagian besar
  • sebagian besarin a predominant manner
Italian prevalentemente
  • prevalentementein a predominant manner
Norwegian Bokmål overveiende
  • overveiendein a predominant manner
Portuguese principalmente, predominantemente
  • principalmentein a predominant manner
  • predominantementein a predominant manner
Russian преиму́щественно
  • преиму́щественно (preimúščestvenno)in a predominant manner
Spanish principalmente, predominantemente
  • principalmentein a predominant manner
  • predominantementein a predominant manner
Ukrainian перева́жно
  • перева́жно (perevážno)in a predominant manner
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Chicago

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