prevalent
prevalent
Definition
preva·lent (prev′ə lənt)
adjective
- Rare stronger, more effective, etc.; dominant
- widely existing
- generally practiced, occurring, or accepted
Etymology: L praevalens, prp. of praevalere: see prevail
prev′a·lence (-ləns) noun
prev′a·lently adverb
prevalent
Synonyms
prevalent
modif.
prevalent
Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- increasingly: The demise of a readily available commercial system led to an increasingly prevalent view that the scale was dead.
- particularly: They have been particularly prevalent in the expatriate market.
- especially: Infant deaths were especially prevalent among the very poor.
- so: She missed the street music so prevalent in Cuba and also the dancing.
- equally: But all indications are that the effects of the nervous trauma of battle vis à vis shell shock was equally prevalent in all ranks.
- still: This attitude was still prevalent in the last Gulf war.
Modifies a noun
- ideology: However in Ireland this was not to be the case: conservatism was the prevalent ideology of the Cumann na nGaedheal government.
- notion: Despite their gripping stage presence, they seem utterly at odds with the prevalent notion of how a rock band should be.
- strain: These included the isolates of a prevalent Brazilian strain, plus two ATCC reference strains.
- attitude: The U.S. Justice Department is reinforcing a prevalent government attitude that private citizens use the internet primarily for criminal purposes.
- disease: Abstract Dental caries is still one of the most prevalent diseases of children in the United Kingdom.
- today: This might not be unconnected with the lack of mastery prevalent today.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Some put the increase down to the current " blame culture " which is becoming ever more prevalent.
- seem: The concentration on bebop did seem disproportionately prevalent in all forms of education, however.
- remain: Hepatitis B on the other hand remains prevalent among drug addicts.
Preposition: in
- society: But I find that what I call the cultural factor, the cultural bias factor, is prevalent in every single society.
- population: It is less common than POAG in the UK but is more prevalent in some Asiatic populations and in Inuits.
- circle: The anti-intellectualism that is prevalent in fundamentalist circles does not help to form sound doctrine, it actually undermines it.
- today: The show's producers have simply tapped into a value already prevalent in today 's society.
- country: The virus is prevalent in many countries in Asia.
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