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| Main Entry: | prevailing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | general, dominant |
| Synonyms: | by the numbers*, catholic, common, comprehensive, current, customary, ecumenical, established, familiar, fashionable, in vogue, influential, main, operative, ordinary, popular, predominant, prevalent, principal, rampant, regnant, regular, rife, ruling, set, steady, sweeping, universal, usual, widespread, worldwide, all-embracing, in style, predominating, preponderating |
| Antonyms: | individual, minor, peculiar, private, unimportant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prevail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dominate, control |
| Synonyms: | abound, beat, best, carry, command, conquer, domineer, gain, make out, master, obtain, overcome, overrule, predominate, prove, reign, succeed, take off, triumph, win, be common, be current, be prevalent, be usual, be victorious, be widespread, come out on top, exist generally, get there, go great guns, go places, hit pay dirt, luck out, make it, move out, preponderate |
| Antonyms: | lose, surrender |
| Main Entry: | current |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemporary; common |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, afoot, circulating, customary, doing, extant, fad, fashionable, general, hot*, in vogue, instant, mod*, modern, now*, ongoing, popular, present, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, state-of-the-art, swinging, topical, trendy, up-to-date, widespread, common knowledge, cutting-edge, existent, going around, in, in circulation, in progress, in the mainstream, in the news, in use, leading-edge, on front burner, present-day |
| Antonyms: | antiquated, old, old-fashioned, past, uncommon, uncontemporary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | epidemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread |
| Synonyms: | catching, communicable, contagious, endemic, general, infectious, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, rife, sweeping, pandemic, wide-ranging |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
| Antonyms: | limited |
| Main Entry: | fashionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stylish, up-to-date |
| Synonyms: | chic, chichi*, contemporary, current, customary, dashing, favored, fly*, genteel, hot*, in vogue, last word*, latest, latest thing*, mod*, modern, modish*, natty*, new, newfangled, now, popular, prevailing, rakish, smart, trendy, usual, with it*, a go-go, all the rage, faddy, in style, in-thing, swank, trendsetting, up-to-the-minute, upscale, well-liked, á la mode |
| Antonyms: | old-fashioned, out, unfashionable, unpopular |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | modern |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, up-to-date |
| Synonyms: | avant-garde, coincident, concomitant, concurrent, contemporary, current, fresh, last word*, late, latest, modernistic, modish, newfangled*, novel, now, present, prevailing, prevalent, recent, state-of-the-art*, stylish, contempo, cutting-edge, latter-day, leading-edge, modernized, neoteric, new-fashioned, present-day, today, twenty- first century, up-to-the-minute, with-it* |
| Antonyms: | ancient, antiquated, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, outdated, passe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overriding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | central, most important |
| Synonyms: | cardinal, compelling, determining, dominant, final, main, major, number one, paramount, pivotal, predominant, prevailing, primary, prime, principal, ruling, supreme, ultimate, overruling |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, least, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | powerful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strong, effective |
| Synonyms: | able, almighty, authoritarian, authoritative, capable, cogent, commanding, compelling, competent, controlling, convincing, dominant, dynamic, effectual, efficacious, energetic, forceful, forcible, impressive, influential, mighty, omnipotent, paramount, persuasive, potent, preeminent, prevailing, robust, ruling, sovereign, stalwart, strapping*, sturdy, supreme, telling, upper hand*, vigorous, weighty, wicked*, all-powerful, in control, in the saddle, overruling, puissant, strengthy, wieldy |
| Antonyms: | impotent, incapable, ineffective, unable, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | predominant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruling; most important |
| Synonyms: | absolute, almighty, arbitrary, authoritative, capital, chief, controlling, dominant, dominating, effective, efficacious, governing, imperious, influential, leading, main, mighty, official, omnipotent, overbearing, overpowering, paramount, potent, predominate, preponderant, prevailing, prevalent, primary, prime, principal, prominent, reigning, sovereign, superior, superlative, supreme, transcendent, weighty, all-powerful, ascendant, directing, holding the reins, supervisory, surpassing |
| Antonyms: | inconsequential, minor, trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | principal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | most important |
| Synonyms: | arch, capital, cardinal, champion, chief, controlling, crowning, dominant, essential, first, foremost, head, highest, incomparable, key, leading, main, major, matchless, maximum, outstanding, paramount, peerless, predominant, preeminent, premier, prevailing, primary, prime, prominent, sovereign, star, stellar, superior, supreme, transcendent, unapproachable, unequaled, unparalleled, unrivaled, greatest, mainline, second-to-none, strongest, supereminent |
| Antonyms: | auxiliary, extra, least, lesser, minor, secondary, trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | rife |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overflowing |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, alive, common, current, epidemic, extensive, frequent, general, many, multitudinous, numerous, plentiful, popular, prevailing, prevalent, profuse, raging, rampant, regnant, replete, ruling, teeming, ubiquitous, universal, widespread, pandemic, swarming, thronged |
| Antonyms: | low, scarce |
| Main Entry: | standard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regular, approved |
| Synonyms: | accepted, authoritative, average, basic, canonical, classic, common, customary, definitive, established, everyday, general, normal, official, orthodox, popular, prevailing, recognized, regulation, run-of-the-mill*, set, staple, stock, typical, usual, vanilla*, boilerplate, garden variety |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, different, irregular, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | supreme |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greatest, principal |
| Synonyms: | absolute, best, cardinal, chief, crowning, excellent, extreme, final, first, foremost, head, highest, incomparable, last, leading, marvelous, matchless, maximum, paramount, peerless, perfect, predominant, preeminent, prevailing, prime, sovereign, superb, superlative, terminal, top, top-drawer, towering, transcendent, ultimate, unequaled, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, utmost, closing, culminating, surpassing, unsurpassable |
| Antonyms: | inferior, least, lowly, minor, poor, serving, littlest |
| Main Entry: | unsurpassed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supreme |
| Synonyms: | absolute, best, excellent, final, first, foremost, highest, incomparable, leading, matchless, paramount, peerless, perfect, prevailing, superior, top, ultimate, unequaled, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled, culminating, greatest |
| Main Entry: | usual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, typical |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, average, chronic, commonplace, constant, conventional, current, customary, cut-and-dried*, everyday, expected, familiar, fixed, frequent, general, grind, habitual, mainstream, natural, normal, ordinary, plain, plastic, prevailing, prevalent, quotidian, regular, rife, routine, run-of-the-mill*, so-so*, standard, stock, vanilla*, wonted, garden variety, matter-of-course, typic, unremarkable, white-bread, workaday |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, atypical, irregular, uncommon, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | widespread |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensive |
| Synonyms: | boundless, broad, common, comprehensive, current, diffuse, epidemic, far-flung, far-reaching, general, overall, pervasive, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, sweeping, universal, unlimited, unrestricted, wholesale, across the board, all over the place, on a large scale, outspread, pandemic, wall-to-wall |
| Antonyms: | concentrated, limited, local, narrow |
| Main Entry: | excelling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surpassing |
| Synonyms: | excellent, prevailing, superior, exceeding, outshining |
| Main Entry: | reigning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | powerful |
| Synonyms: | authoritative, controlling, dominant, dominating, governing, prevailing, regnant, ruling, supreme |
| Main Entry: | rumored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reported |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, circulating, prevailing, reputed, reputed, rife, said, all over town, bruited, given out, going around*, gossiped, told |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, ordinary |
| Synonyms: | accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill*, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, usual, wearisome, worn-out, comformable, unvaried, workaday |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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