prevalent
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Prevalent \Prev"a*lent\, a. [L. praevalens, -entis, p. pr. of
praevalere. See {Prevail}.]
1. Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force,
influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant;
successful; victorious.
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Brennus told the Roman embassadors, that prevalent
arms were as good as any title. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
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2. Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or
practiced; also, generally or extensively existing;
widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance;
prevalent disease.
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This was the most received and prevalent opinion.
--Woodward.
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Syn: Prevailing; predominant; successful; efficacious;
powerful.
Usage: {Prevalent}, {Prevailing}. What customarily prevails
is prevalent; as, a prevalent fashion. What actually
prevails is prevailing; as, the prevailing winds are
west. Hence, prevailing is the livelier and more
pointed word, since it represents a thing in action.
It is sometimes the stronger word, since a thing may
prevail sufficiently to be called prevalent, and yet
require greater strength to make it actually
prevailing.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
194 Moby Thesaurus words for "prevalent":
abounding, abundant, accepted, accidental, accompanying, ado,
affluent, afloat, afoot, all the rage, all the thing,
all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, ascendant, at the head, average,
being, besetting, boss, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, catholic,
chief, circumstantial, commanding, common, commonplace,
conformable, consuetudinary, controlling, conventional, copious,
current, customary, diffuse, doing, dominant, effuse, epidemic,
established, eventuating, everyday, exhaustless, existent,
existing, extant, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, familiar,
fashionable, fat, fertile, flush, frequent, frequentative, full,
galore, general, generally accepted, generous, going on, governing,
habitual, happening, head, hegemonic, hegemonistic, hip,
in ascendancy, in being, in charge, in chief, in effect,
in existence, in fashion, in force, in hand, in plenty,
in quantity, in style, in the ascendant, in the wind, in vogue,
incidental, inexhaustible, lavish, leading, liberal, living,
luxuriant, many, many times, master, maximal, mod, modern, much,
new, newfashioned, normal, not rare, numerous, obtaining,
occasional, occurring, of common occurrence, oft-repeated,
oftentime, omnipresent, on, on foot, ongoing, opulent, ordinary,
overbearing, overflowing, pandemic, paramount, passing, pervasive,
plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, popular, predominant,
predominate, predominating, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate,
prepotent, prescribed, prescriptive, present, prevailing, prodigal,
productive, profuse, profusive, rampant, received, recurrent,
regnant, regular, regulating, regulation, regulative, regulatory,
reigning, replete, resultant, rich, rife, riotous, routine, ruling,
running, running over, set, smart, sovereign, standard,
stereotyped, stock, subsistent, subsisting, superabundant, supreme,
taking place, teeming, thick-coming, time-honored, traditional,
trendy, ubiquitous, under the sun, under way, universal,
up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, usual, wealthy,
well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale,
widespread, wonted
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