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
It is this concentration of certain qualities in generation after generation which renders the pedigree animal so intensely prepotent, particularly when mated with animals of an ordinary character or not possessing concentrated breeding.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Spencer, Sanders
When distinguishable individuals of the same family, or races, or species are crossed, we see that the one is often prepotent over the other in transmitting its own character.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
The civilized theater has begun to come; the prepotent influence of the audience is recognized.
From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
