antecedent

antecedent is a 10-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
2. adjective. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.
3. noun. That which goes before in time; that which precedes.
4. noun. One who precedes or goes in front.
5. noun. The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history.
6. noun. The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.
7. noun. The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.
8. noun. The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.
9. noun. The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.
10. noun. the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
11. noun. a preceding occurrence or cause or event
12. noun. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

    Synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, root

13. noun. anything that precedes something similar in time

    "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"

    Synonyms: forerunner

14. adjective. preceding in time or order

Synonyms

ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, root, forerunner

Common word forms

antecedents, antecedental, antecedently

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