antenuptial

1. 1.

   relating to events before a marriage

   “prenuptial agreement”

   Synonymsprenuptialpremarital

Questions about antenuptial

What does antenuptial mean?

antenuptial means "relating to events before a marriage".

How many syllables are in antenuptial?

antenuptial has 5 syllables: an-te-nup-ti-al. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for antenuptial?

Close synonyms include prenuptial, premarital. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antenuptial a common word?

antenuptial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.