precedented

1. 1.

   having or supported or justified by a precedent

   Antonymsunprecedented

Questions about precedented

What does precedented mean?

precedented means "having or supported or justified by a precedent".

How many syllables are in precedented?

precedented has 4 syllables and divides as pre-ce-den-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of precedented?

The recorded antonyms are unprecedented.

Is precedented a common word?

precedented 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.