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antecedent has 5 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 5 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is subsequent.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for antecedent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
a preceding occurrence or cause or event
anything that precedes something similar in time
“phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience”
the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
preceding in time or order