Synonyms for PREVAILING
prɪˈveɪ lɪŋpre·vail·ing

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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.

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

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

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1. prevailing

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

   Antonyms:
   mitigated, diminishing, subordinate, powerless

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1. prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant, rifeadjective

   most frequent or common

   "prevailing winds"

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

   Antonyms:
   infrequent

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1. prevailingadjective

   Synonyms:
   effectual, dominant, predominant, efficacious, preponderating

2. prevailingadjective

   Synonyms:
   received (at the present time), current, established, ordinary, usual, PREVALENT, widely extended, most general

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1. List of paraphrases for "prevailing":

   dominant, predominant, prevalent, reigning, existing, current, mainstream, pervasive, widespread

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1. Nick Morgan:

   I've coached candidates, and the prevailing wisdom has been that politicians should appear dignified, presidential, in control of their emotions. What he's doing is something new, more like a celebrity or a reality TV star -- and it's working.

2. Sucharita Kodali:

   All kinds of established beauty companies have made forays into various technology investments, for now, they are experiments. That's just all they are. Nothing is a prevailing means of buying or selling.

3. Aaron Baggish:

   The prevailing science says the vast majority of athletes can push their heart to the limit and come out stronger, they can do as much activity as they want and not end up with heart failure.

4. Zhao Suisheng:

   In China today, nationalistic sentiments are prevailing among the young people, that is the result of patriotic education. They gave them only the information they wanted them to have and tried to block all other information.

5. Campos Neto:

   Obviously, a breakthrough on reforms makes the inflation scenario in the future more benign, the prevailing factor (in the risks to inflation) is reforms. Progress on reform is improvement in this sense.