Prefatory Synonyms

prĕfə-tôrē
Before or in preparation for the main matter, action, or business
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. introductory
  2. preliminary
  3. opening
  4. inductive
  5. initiative
  6. preparatory
  7. prolegomenous
  8. prepositive
Serving to introduce a subject or person, for example
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. introductory
  2. preliminary
  3. preparatory
  4. prolegomenous
  5. prefatorial
Of, relating to, or constituting a preface; introductory.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. preliminary

Words Related to Prefatory

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.

Related:

  1. start
  2. words
  3. preface
  4. ten-page

Prefatory Sentence Examples

  • The prefatory note there may come from a Hebrew MS., but perhaps refers to chapter i.

  • It was declared in a prefatory note to the volume that the authors were responsible only for their respective articles, but some of these were deemed so destructive that many people banned the whole book, and a noisy demand, led by Samuel Wilberforce, then bishop of Oxford, called on the headmaster of Rugby to dissociate himself from his comrades.

  • Specimens of Fowler's verses were published in 1803 by John Leyden in his Scottish Descriptive Poems. Fowler contributed a prefatory sonnet to James VI.'s Furies; and James, in return, commended, in verse, Fowler's Triumphs.

  • The last ten years of his life were passed in complete retirement at Brantwood, in the loving care of the Severn family, to whom the estate was transferred, with occasional visits from friends, but with no sustained work beyond correspondence, the revision of his works, and a few notes and prefatory words to the books of others.

  • This event brings us to one of the most interesting periods of Persian history, any account of which must be defective without a prefatory sketch of Ismail Sufi.

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