prepotent
Example Sentences
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Without these most prepotent needs met, people do not even get an opportunity for further growth as a human.
From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2017
Perhaps not since the full-blown Garbo has the old world offered to the new such a prepotent image of the eternal feminine as can be seen in the mysteriously soulful face of Maria Schell.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the other hand, the mother's traits, prepotent in the development of daughters, will inhibit in these and diminish the strength and stature of their paternal inherences.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
And if the parents' traits are similar Their traits may be prepotent in a child, Thus giving rise to qualities convergent.
From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee
The mark of this prepotent previous man is left on the house from cellar to attic.
From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
