1. prevailing - Adjective
2. prevailing - Verb
4. prevailing - Adjective Satellite
of Prevail
Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive.
Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPerseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. Dave Barry
The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular. Benjamin Netanyahu
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination. Christopher Columbus
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted. Claude Bernard