preponderating
Meaning of preponderating
- be greater in number, influence, or importance.
the advantages preponderate over this apparent disadvantage
early 17th century (in the sense ‘weigh more, have greater intellectual weight’): from Latin praeponderat- ‘of greater weight’, from the verb praeponderare, from prae ‘before’ + ponderare ‘weigh, consider’.
Information about preponderating
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of preponderating
pre-pon-der-at-ing
- It consists of 5 syllables and 14 chars.
- preponderating is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
preponderating synonyms
Meaning overriding:
overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant
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