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語源

From Latin praedominātus, past participle of praedominor. By surface analysis, pre- +‎ dominate.

発音

• IPA: (verb) /pɹɪˈdɒmɪneɪt/
• IPA: (adjective) /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnət/

動詞

predominate (third-person singular simple present predominates, present participle predominating, simple past and past participle predominated)

1. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
   • 2018 June 24, Annette Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger and Amanda Barrett Cox, “How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2 August 2019:

     With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate.

   • 2021 April 29, Sabrina Tavernise, “Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 July 2021:

     These qualities tend to predominate among conservatives but they are present among liberals too.

2. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXXIV. Confidence.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 296:

     All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness.

   • 1887 March 1, “SHOTS THROUGH A WINDOW.”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 22 September 2024:

     During the silk weavers strike on Jersey City Heights and in West Hoboken last Summer, Poidebard's mill was regarded as especially obnoxious by the strikers, and the largely predominating Socialist element among them frequently menaced it with attack.

   • 1999, Galí, Jordi and Mark Gertler, “Inflation dynamics: A structural econometric analysis”, in Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 44, page 215:

     Thus, even though a total of four lags of inflation enters the right hand side, forward looking behavior still predominates.

3. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.

同意語

• preponderate
• prevail

派生語

形容詞

predominate (comparative more predominate, superlative most predominate)

1. (sometimes proscribed) Predominant.
   • 1999 11, Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 105, number 3, page 637:

     Eradication of disorder may indirectly reduce crime by stabilizing neighborhoods, but the direct link as formulated by proponents was not the predominate one in our study.

使用する際の注意点

• Predominate is and has been much less common than predominant as an adjective.
• Some usage and style authorities frown on predominate as an adjective. For example, Garner's Modern American Usage calls it a "needless variant" and discourages its use on the grounds that it might cause a reader to interpret it as the verb, which has the same spelling.

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