Usually means: Dominant or superior in power.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word prepotent:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. prepotent: Merriam-Webster
  2. prepotent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prepotent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prepotent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prepotent: Wordnik
  6. prepotent: Wiktionary
  7. prepotent: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. prepotent: Dictionary.com
  9. Prepotent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. prepotent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Prepotent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. prepotent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. prepotent: FreeDictionary.org
  14. prepotent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. prepotent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prepotent: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. prepotent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. prepotent: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prepotent)

▸ adjective:  Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.
▸ adjective:  (biology) Characterized by prepotency.

Similar:
superpowerful, prevailing, preponderant, potentate, puissant, high-powered, sovereign, preponderous, superpotent, predominate, more...

Opposite:
recessive, subordinate, inferior

Types:
domineering, overbearing, tyrannical, authoritarian, bossy, controlling, more...

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Similar:
superpowerful, prevailing, preponderant, potentate, puissant, high-powered, sovereign, preponderous, superpotent, predominate, more...

Opposite:
recessive, subordinate, inferior

Types:
domineering, overbearing, tyrannical, authoritarian, bossy, controlling, more...



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