Meaning & use
Prepotent
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Having superior power, influence, or force; predominant over others.
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The prepotent leader dominated every negotiation in the room.
In genetics, a prepotent parent passes on traits more strongly than the other.
A note on using this word
Rare outside biology and older literary English; in genetics, it describes a parent whose traits are inherited more strongly by offspring.
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