Anterior Synonyms and Antonyms

ăn-tîrē-ər
Going before
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. advance
  2. antecedent
  3. earlier
  4. precedent
  5. preceding
  6. previous
  7. prior
Just gone by or elapsed
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. prior
  2. antecedent
  3. earlier
  4. foregoing
  5. former
  6. preceding
  7. previous
  8. atlantal
  9. before
  10. past
  11. precedent
  12. forward
  13. front
Antonyms:
  1. posterior
  2. ending
  3. subsequent
A tooth situated at the front of the mouth
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. front tooth
  2. forehand

Words Related to Anterior

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Anterior Sentence Examples

  • The anterior end of body always shows some "cephalization."

  • When the pericardium is cut open from above in an animal otherwise entire, the anterior face of the kidney is seen forming the posterior wall of the pericardial chamber; on the deep edge of this face, a little to the left of the attachment of the auricle to the floor of the pericardium, is seen a depression; this depression contains the opening from the pericardium into the kidney.

  • Thus the base of the gill passes in a slanting direction across the right-hand side of the kidney, the posterior end being dorsal to the apex of the gland, and the anterior end ventral to the right-hand corner.

  • The middle valley is often intersected by vertical "crista" and "crochet" plates projecting into it from the anterior surface of the posterior transverse ridge or from the wall, the development of which is a useful guide in discriminating species, especially those known only by teeth and bones.

  • The High Churchman of the "Catholic" type is further differentiated from the "oldfashioned High Churchman" of what is sometimes described as the "high and dry" type of the period anterior to the Oxford Movement.

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