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prepotent

[ pree-poht-nt ]

adjective

  1. preeminent in power, authority, or influence; predominant:

    a prepotent name in the oil business.

  2. Genetics. noting, pertaining to, or having prepotency.


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Other Words From

  • pre·potent·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of prepotent1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin praepotent- (stem of praepotēns ), present participle of praeposse to have greater power. See pre-, potent 1
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Example Sentences

Without these most prepotent needs met, people do not even get an opportunity for further growth as a human.

An apparently blended character or a prepotent character may on analysis turn out to be due to the inheritance of a certain proportion of minuter characters derived exclusively from either parent.

If a father is prepotent, he may have a greater effect in producing the formed child than the mother has, and vice versa, as when a son closely resembles his father or his mother.

Such Dominants are a bi-sexual species in which the male is prepotent.

And, of course, the more primitive a type is, the more prepotent it is.

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