Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preponderant \Pre*pon"der*ant\, a. [L. praeponderans, -antis: cf. F. pr['e]pond['e]rant. See Preponderate.] Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant importance. -- Pre*pon"der*ant*ly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Latin praeponderantem (nominative praeponderans), present participle of praeponderare (see preponderate).
Wiktionary
a. preponderate#Verb; outweighing; overbalancing.
WordNet
adj. having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism" [syn: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderating]
Usage examples of "preponderant".
In general, Sartre was suspicious of psychoanalysis, put off by what he saw as dogmatic symbolism, mechanistic explanation, a preponderant role for the unconscious and sexuality, and an analytic method dividing the personality into hermetic components rather than attempting to comprehend it both in its singularity and, synthetically, as an indivisible totality.
But as before the lightning the serried stormclouds, heavy with preponderant excess of moisture, in swollen masses turgidly distended, compass earth and sky in one vast slumber, impending above parched field and drowsy oxen and blighted growth of shrub and verdure till in an instant a flash rives their centres and with the reverberation of the thunder the cloudburst pours its torrent, so and not otherwise was the transformation, violent and instantaneous, upon the utterance of the word.
Barium, salts of, action on Drosera, 183 Bases of salts, preponderant action of, on Drosera, 186 Basis, fibrous, of bone, its digestion by Drosera, 108 Belladonna, extract of, action on Drosera, 84 Bennett, Mr.
The far more preponderant gravitation of the blue dwarf exercised its dominant influence and forced the craft into a new course.