MEANING
1. To be the most common or numerous type within a group or setting.
2. To have greater importance or influence than other factors in a situation.
Use it for
identifying the most frequent type in a sample; describing which category is most represented; comparing the composition of groups without implying causal influenceSeparates being most numerous from having the greatest influence, a distinction that matters when interpreting distributions. Writing functions: Significance / Scope, Evidence, Comparison / Contrast.
Words that belong together
- predominate in a sample
- predominate among respondents
- one category predominates
On the page
Text-based measures predominate in the review, although they do not cover every relevant ability.
Small firms predominate in the sample; large employers are comparatively uncommon.
Security concerns predominated over cost in the committee’s final discussion.
The analysis asks whether local incentives or national institutions predominate in shaping the outcome.
Word forms
- Base
- predominate
- Past tense
- predominated
- Past participle
- predominated
- Present participle
- predominating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- predominate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are predominating
- Present perfect
- have/has predominated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been predominating
- Past
- predominated
- Past continuous
- was/were predominating
- Past perfect
- had predominated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been predominating
- Future
- will predominate
- Future continuous
- will be predominating
- Future perfect
- will have predominated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been predominating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Intransitive verb: predominate; predominates; predominated; predominated; predominating. Future: will predominate. Common patterns: predominate in, predominate among, predominate over. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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