Preceding Synonyms and Antonyms

prĭ-sēdĭng
Going before
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. advance
  2. antecedent
  3. anterior
  4. earlier
  5. precedent
  6. previous
  7. prior
Just gone by or elapsed
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. earlier
  2. previous
  3. anterior
  4. foregoing
  5. past
  6. former
  7. prior
  8. antecedent
  9. precedent
  10. above
  11. before
  12. precursory
  13. other
  14. aforesaid
  15. ahead-of
  16. forerunning
  17. above-mentioned
  18. above-named
  19. above-cited
  20. supra (Latin)
  21. afore-mentioned
  22. before-mentioned
  23. prefatory
  24. front
  25. forward
  26. first
  27. preliminary
  28. preparatory
  29. introductory
  30. preexistent
  31. aforeknown
  32. already indicated
  33. previously mentioned. See syn. study at previous.previous
  34. previously-mentioned
  35. heretofore
  36. prevenient
  37. retiring
Antonyms:
  1. following
  2. later
  3. below
  4. after
  5. succeeding
Next before the present one
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. foregoing
  2. last
  3. latter
  4. previous
Move ahead (of others) in time or space
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. leading
Antonyms:
  1. succeeding
  2. following
Be earlier in time; go back further
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. predating
  2. antedating
  3. forgoing
  4. anteceding
  5. foregoing
Existing or coming before
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. succeeding

Words Related to Preceding

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.

Preceding Sentence Examples

  • We will do much more in the next twenty years than in the preceding one hundred.

  • The whole lot contains eleven acres, mostly growing up to pines and hickories, and was sold the preceding season for eight dollars and eight cents an acre.

  • I trust that my readers have not concluded from the preceding chapter on books that reading is my only pleasure; my pleasures and amusements are many and varied.

  • They were accepted by a population eager for repose, who had merged old class distinctions in the conflicts of preceding centuries.

  • The ersaeome (Calycophorida), made up of the same appendages as the preceding type but with the addition of a nectocalyx; when free termed Ersaea.

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