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, 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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Scott DesJarlais:

   We were pressured under what looked to be a bad deal, we walked away, and now cooler heads are prevailing. We're discussing this the way we should without a deadline, and we'll bring it back when its right. i know what my relationship with the White House is with Tom Price is, Mick Mulvaney, Mike Pence and Donald Trump so I am not gonna get all hung up about a tweet.

4. 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.

5. Alistair McLean:

   Mountains and favorable prevailing winds combine to create some of northern Scandinavia's most cloud-free skies.