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prevailingadjective accepted, used, or practiced by most peoplethe principal disagrees with the prevailing attitude toward corporal punishment conventional, current, customary, going, popular, prevalent, standard, stock, usual average, common, everyday, normal, ordinaryregular, routineepidemic, ubiquitous, universal, widespreadaccustomed, wontedfashionable, in, modish, stylish nonstandard, unconventional, unpopular, unusual abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, uncommon held by or applicable to a majority of the peoplethe prevailing custom here is to leave one's doors unlocked common, general, majority, overall, popular, public, received, ruling, vulgar unanimous, universalpopeveryday, familiar, household, usual, well-knowncontemporary, current, presentdominant, predominant, preponderantcharacteristic, typicalpandemic, pervasive, prevalent, rife, widespreadcommunal, shared uncommon, unpopular rare, strange, unknown, unusualdistinctive, especial, idiosyncratic, peculiar, special, uniqueindividual, separate, singularnonpublic, personal, private to achieve victory (as in a contest)we shall prevail despite the overwhelming odds conquering, triumphing, winning overcoming, sweepingsqueaking, squeezingcontending, vyingsucceedingbreezing, romping carrying the daykicking butt losing collapsing, failing, flopping, folding, washing outfloundering, strugglingdeclining, slipping, slumping, waning to continue to operate or to meet one's needsa custom that still prevails in many areas of Africa holding out, holding up, keeping up, lasting, surviving bearing up, carrying on, coping, enduring, faring, getting along, getting by, getting on, going, hanging in, making out, managing, perseveringabiding, continuing, drawing out, hanging on, holding on, lingering, persisting, remaining, running on, stretching failing, fizzling, giving out, going out, petering (out), running out breaking, breaking down, collapsing, conking (out), crashing, cutting out, dying, expiring, stalling, stoppingrunning down, waning |