Synonyms for Prevailing:

• adj.

  •actual (adjective)
  • living,
  • prevailing,
  • exact,
  • original,
  • live.
  •ascendant (adjective)
  • pre-dominating,
  • most ascendent,
  • more ascendent,
  • pre dominating,
  • most predominating,
  • more predominating.
  •common (adjective)
  • habitual,
  • simple,
  • coincident,
  • corporate,
  • obscure,
  • bourgeois,
  • hackneyed,
  • united,
  • conjoint,
  • everyday,
  • wearisome,
  • casual,
  • stock,
  • run-of-the-mill,
  • stereotyped,
  • monotonous,
  • characteristic,
  • congruous,
  • communal,
  • plain,
  • generic,
  • community,
  • humdrum,
  • like,
  • worn-out,
  • probable,
  • reciprocal,
  • colloquial,
  • typical,
  • mediocre,
  • prosaic,
  • trite,
  • mutual,
  • social,
  • commonplace,
  • stale,
  • shared,
  • public,
  • correspondent,
  • undistinguished,
  • joint,
  • trivial,
  • passable,
  • routine,
  • general,
  • constant,
  • accepted,
  • banal,
  • collective,
  • well-known,
  • homely,
  • daily,
  • frequent,
  • informal.
  •conventional (adjective)
  • formal,
  • straight,
  • decorous,
  • traditional,
  • square,
  • orthodox,
  • wonted,
  • accustomed,
  • proper,
  • button-down,
  • ritual,
  • expected,
  • correct.
  •current (adjective)
  • ongoing,
  • up-to-date,
  • instant,
  • state-of-the-art,
  • Doing,
  • mod,
  • fad,
  • in,
  • swinging,
  • topical,
  • trendy,
  • circulating.
  •dominant (adjective)
  • major,
  • prominent,
  • first,
  • leading,
  • demonstrative,
  • transcendent,
  • overbearing,
  • outstanding,
  • imperious,
  • authoritative,
  • sovereign,
  • surpassing,
  • despotic,
  • assertive,
  • foremost,
  • chief,
  • governing,
  • preeminent,
  • commanding,
  • paramount,
  • Obtaining,
  • capital,
  • reigning,
  • outweighing,
  • imperative,
  • Presiding,
  • number one,
  • bossy,
  • effective,
  • stellar,
  • domineering,
  • preponderant.
  •epidemic (adjective)
  • pandemic,
  • communicable,
  • wide-ranging,
  • infectious,
  • contagious,
  • catching.
  •fashionable (adjective)
  • trendsetting,
  • Tony,
  • in-thing,
  • swank,
  • all the rage,
  • well-liked,
  • trig,
  • newfangled,
  • faddy,
  • upscale,
  • a go-go,
  • latest,
  • in thing,
  • in style.
  •firm (adjective)
  • most stipulated,
  • more resolved,
  • un-qualified,
  • more undeviating,
  • un-shakable,
  • un-shaken,
  • un-changeable,
  • more never failing,
  • staunch,
  • un shakable,
  • most never failing,
  • most resolved,
  • neverfailing,
  • re-solved,
  • in flexible,
  • un flinching,
  • un shaken,
  • more neverfailing,
  • never failing,
  • un-deviating,
  • un bending,
  • un-flinching,
  • un yielding,
  • in-flexible,
  • un-bending,
  • un changeable,
  • un qualified,
  • un deviating,
  • most neverfailing,
  • more stipulated,
  • more never-failing,
  • un-yielding,
  • most undeviating,
  • un wavering,
  • most never-failing,
  • un-wavering,
  • re-solute,
  • re solute,
  • persistent,
  • in tent.
  •general (adjective)
  • more matter-of-course,
  • un-eventful,
  • most matter of course,
  • more matter of course,
  • ex tensive,
  • un eventful,
  • matter-of-course,
  • most matter-of-course.
  •in (adjective)
  • up minute,
  • up to minute,
  • up the minute.
  •latter-day (adjective)
  • latter day,
  • Latterday.
  •modern (adjective)
  • most neoteric,
  • most with-it,
  • more today,
  • most modernized,
  • more neoteric,
  • twenty first century,
  • most newfashioned,
  • most new-fashioned,
  • most contempo,
  • recent,
  • new fashioned,
  • re-cent,
  • more new fashioned,
  • modernistic,
  • more with it,
  • more contempo,
  • more with-it,
  • most today,
  • more modernized,
  • most novel,
  • twenty-first century,
  • avantgarde,
  • most withit,
  • withit,
  • more withit,
  • twentyfirst century,
  • most new fashioned,
  • avant garde,
  • more newfashioned,
  • re cent,
  • more new-fashioned,
  • most with it.
  •natural (adjective)
  • more unacquired,
  • uni-form,
  • un controlled,
  • in born,
  • un acquired,
  • in-born,
  • more natal,
  • more ingenerate,
  • most unacquired,
  • uni form,
  • in voluntary,
  • un-controlled,
  • most ingenerate,
  • un-acquired,
  • in generate,
  • most natal,
  • in-generate,
  • in-voluntary.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • supreme,
  • powerful,
  • second to none,
  • predominant,
  • rife,
  • conventional,
  • wornout,
  • cutting-edge,
  • prevalent,
  • button down,
  • white bread,
  • in the news,
  • ordinary,
  • unvaried,
  • contempo,
  • faddish,
  • in established usage,
  • crowd-pleasing,
  • comformable,
  • unremarkable,
  • overriding,
  • undeviating,
  • natal,
  • looked for,
  • new-fashioned,
  • workaday,
  • tralatitious,
  • Excelling,
  • Intermutual,
  • dead set on,
  • on front burner,
  • regular,
  • ascendant,
  • usual,
  • pre-eminent,
  • in progress,
  • the rage,
  • out-standing,
  • up to the minute,
  • popular,
  • in the mainstream,
  • latest word,
  • Unacquired,
  • in circulation,
  • Newfashioned,
  • communistic,
  • principal,
  • main,
  • well-received,
  • never-failing,
  • socialistic,
  • natural,
  • standard,
  • in common,
  • going around,
  • overbalancing,
  • overweighing,
  • run of the mill,
  • Ingenerate,
  • conjunct,
  • modern,
  • fashionable,
  • Supereminent,
  • in use,
  • firm,
  • rager,
  • leading-edge,
  • super-eminent,
  • boilerplate,
  • mainline,
  • Neoteric,
  • in favor,
  • actual,
  • common knowledge,
  • Commutual,
  • dominant,
  • Prepotent,
  • today,
  • latter-day,
  • with-it,
  • in demand,
  • cut and dried,
  • caught on,
  • unsurpassed,
  • sought after,
  • current,
  • widespread,
  • white-bread,
  • ascendent,
  • top drawer,
  • garden variety,
  • common,
  • superior,
  • whitebread,
  • grinder.
  •overriding (adjective)
  • pivotal.
  •popular (adjective)
  • more crowd pleasing,
  • crowd pleasing,
  • sought-after,
  • more runafter,
  • more preferred,
  • more well received,
  • most proletarian,
  • more wellreceived,
  • more demanded,
  • most wellreceived,
  • be loved,
  • crowdpleasing,
  • wellreceived,
  • well received,
  • more faddish,
  • most selling,
  • Promoted,
  • most well received,
  • most beloved,
  • more promoted,
  • most run-after,
  • more crowd-pleasing,
  • more adopted,
  • most crowd-pleasing,
  • most faddish,
  • most embraced,
  • more embraced,
  • more run after,
  • more proletarian,
  • most sought after,
  • be-loved,
  • run-after,
  • more well-received,
  • most runafter,
  • soughtafter,
  • most soughtafter,
  • more crowdpleasing,
  • more sought-after,
  • more soughtafter,
  • most adopted,
  • run after,
  • ragest,
  • most crowdpleasing,
  • most sought-after,
  • thinger,
  • proletarian,
  • most promoted,
  • more selling,
  • more sought after,
  • most run after,
  • more run-after,
  • most demanded,
  • runafter,
  • most well-received,
  • thingest,
  • most crowd pleasing.
  •powerful (adjective)
  • Strengthy,
  • in the saddle,
  • all-powerful,
  • in control,
  • wieldy.
  •predominant (adjective)
  • over powering,
  • more directing,
  • over-powering,
  • most directing,
  • holding reins,
  • pre-dominant,
  • holding the reins,
  • pre dominant.
  •prepotent (adjective)
  • pre-potent,
  • pre potent.
  •prevailing (adjective)
  • operative,
  • steady,
  • by the numbers,
  • universal,
  • all-embracing,
  • Familiar,
  • in vogue,
  • Predominating,
  • customary.
  •prevalent (adjective)
  • more prevalent.
  •principal (adjective)
  • most second to none,
  • most supereminent,
  • more supereminent,
  • super eminent,
  • un rivaled,
  • in-comparable,
  • un paralleled,
  • second-to-none,
  • un-equaled,
  • un-rivaled,
  • un approachable,
  • in comparable,
  • most second-to-none,
  • more second to none,
  • un equaled,
  • un-approachable,
  • most mainline,
  • more mainline,
  • un-paralleled,
  • more second-to-none.
  •regular (adjective)
  • epochal,
  • recurrent,
  • continual,
  • metronomic,
  • rhythmic,
  • cyclical,
  • canonical,
  • chronic,
  • mundane,
  • normal,
  • periodic,
  • average.
  •rife (adjective)
  • thronged.
  •rumored (adjective)
  • more broadcast,
  • most broadcast,
  • given out,
  • most gossiped,
  • all over town,
  • most bruited,
  • most told,
  • more told,
  • more gossiped,
  • more bruited.
  •standard (adjective)
  • re cognized,
  • more regulation,
  • re-cognized,
  • most regulation,
  • most boilerplate,
  • more boilerplate.
  •superior (adjective)
  • unrivalled,
  • a cut above,
  • overlying,
  • high-caliber,
  • of higher rank,
  • superincumbent,
  • good quality,
  • first-string,
  • first class,
  • five-star,
  • firstclass,
  • superhuman.
  •supreme (adjective)
  • un matched,
  • un-surpassable,
  • top-pest,
  • un-matched,
  • un surpassable,
  • top-drawer,
  • topdrawer.
  •trig (adjective)
  • trigger.
  •unsurpassed (adjective)
  • un-surpassed,
  • un surpassed.
  •usual (adjective)
  • more white-bread,
  • more whitebread,
  • so so,
  • most white bread,
  • mainstream,
  • most white-bread,
  • more white bread,
  • most whitebread,
  • grindest.
  •widespread (adjective)
  • across the board,
  • all over the place,
  • on a large scale,
  • wall-to-wall,
  • outspread.

• n.

  •
  • immediate,
  • present,
  • at this time,
  • alive.
  •
  • diffuse,
  • be everywhere,
  • prolific.
  •
  • specific.
  •
  • important.

• v.

  •dominating (verb)
  • controlling,
  • subordinating,
  • bettering,
  • Lording,
  • conquering,
  • Vanquishing,
  • Oppressing,
  • ruling,
  • mastering,
  • Overseeing.
  •existing (verb)
  • enduring,
  • Subsisting,
  • existing,
  • continuing,
  • abiding,
  • Occurring,
  • being,
  • lasting.
  •prevail (verb)
  • overcome,
  • come out on top,
  • make out,
  • overrule,
  • be widespread,
  • preponderate,
  • domineer,
  • win,
  • obtain,
  • move out,
  • luck out,
  • succeed,
  • get there,
  • beat,
  • go places,
  • gain,
  • be victorious,
  • triumph,
  • reign,
  • command,
  • make it,
  • best,
  • carry,
  • be prevalent,
  • exist generally,
  • prove,
  • be usual,
  • be common,
  • take off,
  • conquer,
  • go great guns,
  • be current,
  • hit pay dirt,
  • abound.
  •remaining (verb)
  • Tarrying,
  • persisting,
  • Staying,
  • waiting,
  • remaining,
  • lingering.
  •succeeding (verb)
  • Achieving,
  • Triumphing,
  • winning,
  • Consummating,
  • Overcoming,
  • Attaining,
  • Surmounting,
  • ascending,
  • Earning,
  • dominating,
  • Fulfilling,
  • Accomplishing,
  • succeeding.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • existent,
  • extant,
  • underway,
  • modern-day,
  • afoot,
  • numerous,
  • endemic,
  • present-day,
  • contemporary.
  •
  • regnant,
  • already.
  •
  • active.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • plethoric,
  • afloat,
  • maximal,
  • unraveling,
  • overflowing,
  • extensive,
  • abundant,
  • weighty,
  • under way,
  • all-sufficing,
  • inclusive,
  • fertile,
  • Prepollent,
  • Carrying,
  • halting,
  • riotous,
  • arresting,
  • braving,
  • harbouring,
  • rich,
  • doctrinal,
  • incidental,
  • fat,
  • Laming,
  • inexhaustible,
  • conformist,
  • productive,
  • preponderating,
  • surviving,
  • champion,
  • last word,
  • catholic,
  • extravagant,
  • Brooking,
  • ranging,
  • Maintaining,
  • in ascendancy,
  • overarching,
  • obliging,
  • occasional,
  • great,
  • received,
  • guiding,
  • accredited,
  • Harboring,
  • Eventuating,
  • Persuading,
  • plenty,
  • consuetudinary,
  • functioning,
  • coursing,
  • accommodating,
  • household,
  • central,
  • crowning,
  • starring,
  • topflight,
  • unravelling,
  • Consorting,
  • going on,
  • flush,
  • global,
  • compelling,
  • in the ascendant,
  • recognized,
  • trot,
  • Accustomary,
  • trend,
  • Decreeing,
  • all-inclusive,
  • majority,
  • Checking,
  • sweeping,
  • reported,
  • exuberant,
  • lavish,
  • concurring,
  • guarding,
  • limitless,
  • overlooking,
  • booking,
  • hunting,
  • understood,
  • luxuriant,
  • prescriptive,
  • Plying,
  • agreeing,
  • Hegemonical,
  • well-stocked,
  • bottomless,
  • unlimited,
  • Headmost,
  • prime,
  • rampant,
  • Receiving,
  • swaying,
  • Containing,
  • on foot,
  • in hand,
  • predominate,
  • campaigning,
  • potent,
  • efficacious,
  • teeming,
  • plenitudinous,
  • Overruling,
  • Escaping,
  • affecting,
  • custom,
  • effectual,
  • Overtopping,
  • staple,
  • superabundant,
  • primal,
  • curbing,
  • bandwagon,
  • plenteous,
  • opulent,
  • Lamming,
  • regulation,
  • entertaining,
  • ado,
  • accidental,
  • Profusive,
  • triumphant,
  • rumored,
  • in the air,
  • playing,
  • nursing,
  • moving,
  • inclining,
  • telling,
  • vogue,
  • epidemic,
  • successful,
  • pervasive,
  • Admitting,
  • all over,
  • bruited about,
  • of course,
  • profuse,
  • going round,
  • defending,
  • Declaring,
  • generous,
  • Besetting,
  • resultant,
  • influential,
  • well-trodden,
  • Availing,
  • effuse,
  • chic,
  • craze,
  • worldwide,
  • vulgar,
  • cardinal,
  • known,
  • victorious,
  • much,
  • primary,
  • many,
  • incurring,
  • arch,
  • mode,
  • running over,
  • Harnessing,
  • wholesale,
  • master,
  • well-planned,
  • moderating,
  • well-provided,
  • unrestricted,
  • most important,
  • established,
  • rage,
  • rejoicing,
  • Reserving,
  • well-furnished,
  • suffering,
  • operating,
  • affluent,
  • acknowledged,
  • running,
  • racing,
  • ranking,
  • persevering,
  • transcendant,
  • magisterial,
  • Adjudging,
  • confining,
  • Hegemonic,
  • copious,
  • in the wind,
  • comprehensive,
  • overwhelming,
  • galore,
  • Revelling,
  • Applying,
  • bounteous,
  • aplenty,
  • jog,
  • oecumenical,
  • Sustaining,
  • replete,
  • taking place,
  • tending,
  • transcendental,
  • official,
  • overpowering,
  • Restraining,
  • furore,
  • Deeming,
  • exulting,
  • flowing,
  • ecumenical,
  • bountiful,
  • laddering,
  • authorized,
  • Catholical,
  • abounding,
  • in quantity,
  • normative,
  • tempering,
  • widely known,
  • going,
  • overabundant,
  • Defeating,
  • admitted,
  • conservative,
  • plentiful,
  • forceful,
  • full,
  • triumphal,
  • Bunking,
  • star,
  • accompanying,
  • well-found,
  • non-exclusive,
  • focal,
  • prodigal,
  • circumstantial,
  • overall,
  • retaining,
  • gloating,
  • ubiquitous,
  • happening,
  • Extending,
  • Defying,
  • omnipresent,
  • Exhaustless,
  • banner,
  • wealthy,
  • traditionalist,
  • Tolerating,
  • executing,
  • ample,
  • Wallowing,
  • classic,
  • Reining,
  • vernacular,
  • liberal,
  • thing,
  • go,
  • prevail,
  • passing,
  • set,
  • desire,
  • supporting.

Paraphrases for Prevailing:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    dominant.
  • Proper noun, singular
    dominant.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Predominating.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    preponderant, overriding, widespread, ruling, overarching, general, overwhelming, pre-existing, pre-eminent, present-day, prominent, universal, prevalence, contemporaneous, generalized, applicable, ambient, leading, popular, rampant, sovereign, extant, persistent, contemporary, favourable, fashionable, available, existent, actual, commonplace, generalised, rife, on-going, then, controlling.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    lingering, circulating, practicing, Practising, persisting, dominating, Afflicting, Arising, Characterizing, flourishing, characterising, governing, pervading, emerging, Realizing, acquiring, applied, Applying, gathering, preexisting, Recurring, operating, Translating, completing, Plaguing, serving, regulating, spreading, Pertaining, Earning, Occurring, affecting, travelling, pending, settling, formalising, benefiting, Attaining, conversion, outweighing, Carrying, raging, Defeating, confronting, being, Suggesting, Subsisting, winning, reigning, opening, Claiming, Gaining, Converting, Emanating, concerning, confining, Selecting, clouding, Obtaining, Intending, unfolding, facing, resulting, taking, becoming, Besetting, according, seeing, surrounding, showing, going, 170, getting, making, overriding, ruling, applicable, leading, controlling.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    predominant.

Antonyms for Prevailing:

• adj.

  • actual
    unreal, theoretical, imaginary, reputed, past, hypothetical, nominal.
  • common
    noteworthy, rare, valuable, scarce, abnormal, uncommon, infrequent, unusual, extraordinary.
  • conventional
    unconventional, foreign, uncustomary, strange, irregular, exotic.
  • current
    old, old-fashioned, uncontemporary, antiquated.
  • dominant
    modest, secondary, humble, subordinate, inferior, uncontrolling, unaggressive, retiring, reserved, unassuming.
  • epidemic
    limited.
  • prevailing
    peculiar, unimportant, individual, private, minor.
  • Other antonyms:
    nonstandard, unique, nonpublic, singular, personal, separate, special, exceptional, especial, unparalleled, idiosyncratic, unknown, unpopular, distinctive, out-of-the-way.

• v.

  • prevail
    surrender, lose.