prepotent /pɹɪˈpoʊtənt/ adjective2 •Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.[…] Jeff’s eyes were dry, though his face was discharged of all its prepotent impudence. — 1897 •Characterized by prepotency.[…] the mother strain, if not prepotent in the sense of science, seems to me to have outweighed that of any other relative of whom we have record. — 1916
