Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Greater in power, influence, or force than another or others; predominant.
- adj. Genetics Of, having, or exhibiting prepotency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.
- adj. Characterized by prepotency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.
- adj. Characterized by prepotency.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Preëminent in power, influence, force, or efficiency; prevailing; predominant.
- Highly endued with potentiality or potential power.
- In biology, exhibiting or possessed of prepotency.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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Named after the prepotent Thoroughbred foundation sire Eclipse (1764-1789), the Eclipse Awards are awarded annually and are a joint undertaking of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), the Daily Racing Form (DRF) and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association (NTWBA).
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I "love" how everyone say: "Oh! I hope Puertorricans are smart" "Oh, I hope Puertorricans are intelligent" Who do you prepotent Americans think you are?!?!?!
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And unless I make haste to circumvent this prepotent beast I am lost without recourse; and how well saith the poet,
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I say, "Non ragionam di lor, ma guarda e passa" The meanness of that additional day in your sentence shows how prepotent authorities have become even in America, and public opinion how intolerant.
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So when you start -- and we cannot be so prepotent on having all the answers.
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At Banana and Boma it is particularly good; at Porto da Lenha it is half water, but the agents dare not complain, for the reason which prevents them offering “spliced grog” to the prepotent negro.
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Even though we always acted with all the necessary firmness, at no time during the negotiating process did we utter an arrogant, prepotent, or boasting word.
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We can even say something else: World imperialism and capitalism are too arrogant, prepotent, and haughty to give up the idea of eliminating socialism in the world.
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Imperialists have perhaps changed their tactics and weapons, but the Yankee imperialists are too arrogant, prepotent, and haughty to give up the idea of defeating the Cuban Revolution and the idea of wiping out socialism in Cuba.
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The machine from which it was drawing its power was a simple, though exceedingly prepotent, machine service unit. noncommunicative and ordinarily used to power-boost a hundred like the analyzer it dwarfed.
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