Prevalent

a.	1.	Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious. Brennus told the Roman embassadors, that prevalent arms were as good as any title. - Sir W. Raleigh.
	2.	Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease. This was the most received and prevalent opinion. - Woodward.

Adj.

1.

prevalent - encountered generally especially at the present time; "the prevailing opinion was that a trade war could be averted"; "the most prevalent religion in our area"; "speculation concerning the books author was rife" Synonyms: rife, prevailing

abounding, abundant, accepted, accidental, accompanying, ado, affluent, afloat, afoot, all the rage, all the thing, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, ascendant, at the head, average, being, besetting, boss, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, catholic, chief, circumstantial, commanding, commonplace, conformable, consuetudinary, controlling, conventional, copious, current, customary, diffuse, doing, dominant, effuse, epidemic, established, eventuating, everyday, exhaustless, existent, existing, extant, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, fashionable, fat, fertile, flush, frequent, frequentative, full, galore, generally accepted, generous, going on, governing, habitual, happening, head, hegemonic, hegemonistic, hip, in ascendancy, in being, in charge, in chief, in effect, in existence, in fashion, in force, in hand, in plenty, in quantity, in style, in the ascendant, in the wind, in vogue, incidental, inexhaustible, lavish, leading, liberal, living, luxuriant, many, many times, master, maximal, mod, modern, much, new, newfashioned, normal, not rare, numerous, obtaining, occasional, occurring, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, omnipresent, on, on foot, ongoing, opulent, overbearing, overflowing, pandemic, paramount, passing, pervasive, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, predominant, predominate, predominating, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prescribed, prescriptive, present, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, rampant, received, recurrent, regnant, regular, regulating, regulation, regulative, regulatory, reigning, replete, resultant, rich, rife, riotous, routine, ruling, running, running over, set, smart, sovereign, standard, stereotyped, stock, subsistent, subsisting, superabundant, supreme, taking place, teeming, thick-coming, time-honored, traditional, trendy, ubiquitous, under the sun, under way, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, widespread, wonted

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