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Antonyms for prevailing
prɪˈveɪ lɪŋpre·vail·ing

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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.3 / 3 votes

  1. prevailing

    Usual (Latin usus, use, habit, wont) signifies such as regularly or often recurs in the ordinary course of events, or is habitually repeated in the life of the same person. Ordinary (Latin ordo, order) signifies according to an established order, hence of everyday occurrence. In strictness, common and general apply to the greater number of individuals in a class; but both words are in good use as applying to the greater number of instances in a series, so that it is possible to speak of one person's common practise or general custom, tho ordinary or usual would in such case be preferable. Compare GENERAL; NORMAL.

    Antonyms:
    exceptional, extraordinary, infrequent, out-of-the-way, rare, singular, strange, uncommon, unparalleled, unusual

    Synonyms:
    accustomed, common, customary, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, normal, ordinary, prevalent, public, regular, usual, wonted

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 2 votes

  1. prevailing

    Antonyms:
    mitigated, diminishing, subordinate, powerless

    Synonyms:
    controlling, ruling, influential, operative, predominant, prevalent, rife, ascendant, most general, most common

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant, rifeadjective

    most frequent or common

    "prevailing winds"

    Antonyms:
    infrequent

    Synonyms:
    overabundant, rife, predominate, dominant, predominant, plethoric, prevalent, preponderating, overriding, paramount, preponderant

How to use prevailing in a sentence?

  1. Jeffrey Olson:

    I’m not talking about car or truck traffic but pollutants that are transported by prevailing winds, for example, pollutants from a coal-fired electrical generating station are carried by prevailing winds long distances away from the plant and have an effect on air quality in a national park or other area downwind from that plant.

  2. Tim Stephens:

    We’ve seen that the new prevailing worldview is totalitarian, seeking to define marriage, sexuality, and control health choices, it is absolutely intolerant to opposing beliefs. All socialistic and communistic movements hate the authority and law of God that Christianity promotes.

  3. Plutarch:

    Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

  4. The Union:

    We will continue to consult with government and the event will be delivered in compliance with the prevailing Covid measures in place at the time.

  5. Kim Jong:

    The prevailing situation where a great war for national reunification is at hand requires all the KPA (Korean People's Army) units to become (elite) Guard Units fully prepared for war politically and ideologically, in military technique and materially.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#2682rare
#3929strange
#5261unusual
#6385exceptional
#6982extraordinary
#13600singular
#14075uncommon
#14484prevailing
#18868subordinate
#20608unparalleled
#25606diminishing
#30704powerless
#32135infrequent
#37418mitigated

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