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antecedent

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Word Profile

Syllables
4
Meter
[//xx]
Part of Speech
Adjective, Noun
Popularity
57/100

Definitions

  • adjective

    preceding in time or order

    Synonyms: agency, ancestor, ancestors, announcer, antecede, antecedents, antedate, anterior, anticipatory, ascendant, ascendants, base

    Antonyms: subsequent

  • noun

    someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

    Synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, root

  • noun

    a preceding occurrence or cause or event

  • noun

    anything that precedes something similar in time

    Synonyms: forerunner

    • Example:Phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience.
  • noun

    the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun

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By syllables

1 syllable:

an
base
of
root
was

2 syllables:

an antecedent
antecedent of
modern

3 syllables:

agency
an antecedent of
ancestor
ancestors
announcer
antecedent of modern
ascendant
ascendent
forerunner
was an antecedent

4 syllables:

an antecedent of modern
antecedent of modern neuroscience
antecedents
anterior
phrenology was an antecedent
was an antecedent of

6 syllables:

anticipatory

10 syllables:

plasma thromboplastin antecedent

Alphabetically

A

agency
an
an antecedent
an antecedent of
an antecedent of modern
ancestor
ancestors
announcer
antecedent of
antecedent of modern
antecedent of modern neuroscience
antecedents
anterior
anticipatory
ascendant
ascendent

B

base

F

forerunner

M

modern

O

of

P

phrenology was an antecedent
plasma thromboplastin antecedent

R

root

W

was
was an antecedent
was an antecedent of