Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to preponderate
Participle: preponderated
Gerund: preponderating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | preponderate |
| you | preponderate |
| he;she;it | preponderates |
| we | preponderate |
| you | preponderate |
| they | preponderate |
Perfect
| I | have preponderated |
| you | have preponderated |
| he;she;it | has preponderated |
| we | have preponderated |
| you | have preponderated |
| they | have preponderated |
Past
| I | preponderated |
| you | preponderated |
| he;she;it | preponderated |
| we | preponderated |
| you | preponderated |
| they | preponderated |
Pluperfect
| I | had preponderated |
| you | had preponderated |
| he;she;it | had preponderated |
| we | had preponderated |
| you | had preponderated |
| they | had preponderated |
Future
| I | will preponderate |
| you | will preponderate |
| he;she;it | will preponderate |
| we | will preponderate |
| you | will preponderate |
| they | will preponderate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have preponderated |
| you | will have preponderated |
| he;she;it | will have preponderated |
| we | will have preponderated |
| you | will have preponderated |
| they | will have preponderated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | preponderate |
| you | preponderate |
| he;she;it | preponderate |
| we | preponderate |
| you | preponderate |
| they | preponderate |
Perfect
| I | have preponderated |
| you | have preponderated |
| he;she;it | have preponderated |
| we | have preponderated |
| you | have preponderated |
| they | have preponderated |
Imperfect
| I | preponderated |
| you | preponderated |
| he;she;it | preponderated |
| we | preponderated |
| you | preponderated |
| they | preponderated |
Pluperfect
| I | had preponderated |
| you | had preponderated |
| he;she;it | had preponderated |
| we | had preponderated |
| you | had preponderated |
| they | had preponderated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would preponderate |
| you | would preponderate |
| he;she;it | would preponderate |
| we | would preponderate |
| you | would preponderate |
| they | would preponderate |
Perfect
| I | would have preponderated |
| you | would have preponderated |
| he;she;it | would have preponderated |
| we | would have preponderated |
| you | would have preponderated |
| they | would have preponderated |
Imperative
| you | preponderate |
| we | Let's preponderate |
| you | preponderate |
Verbs conjugated like 'preponderate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'preponderate'
preposterate,
ponderate,
pregenerate,
premonstrate,
preponder,
deonerate,
equiponderate,
exonerate,
prebendate,
preconcentrate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1623, "to weigh more than," from L. præponderare "outweigh," from præ- "before" + ponderare "to weigh" (see pound (n.1)). Meaning "to exceed in force or power" is from 1799. Preponderance is first recorded 1681, meaning "greater weight;" sense of "greater importance" is from 1780; that of "greater number" is from 1845.
2. From Latin praeponderatus, past participle of praeponderāre (“to outweigh”).
Sample Sentences
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an inconsiderable weight by virtue of its distance from the Centre of the Ballance, will preponderate much greater magnitudes [1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica:]
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That is the preponderating consideration to which everything else has to yield. [1898, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, page 359:]
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The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace. [1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, and the Profane State:]
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Anxiety preponderated over hope; and it was scarcely possible for Evelyn to encounter a danger not previously conjured up by the alarmed fancy of his mistress. [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 22:]
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[…] if the principle of utility is good for anything, it must be good for weighing these conflicting utilities against one another, and marking out the region within which one or the other preponderates. [1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism:]
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The natives of Banda are very much mixed, and it is probable that at least three-fourths of the population are mongrels, in various degrees of Malay, Papuan, Arab, Portuguese, and Dutch. The first two form the bases of the larger portion, and the dark skins, pronounced features, and more or less frizzly hair of the Papuans preponderates. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 456:]
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Train journeys were not long in terms of distance, and having regard to these factors, the tank engine inevitably preponderated. [1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161:]