prefatory

1. 1.

   serving as an introduction or preface

   Synonymsintroductoryprefatorial

   Similarpreceding

Questions about prefatory

What does prefatory mean?

prefatory means "serving as an introduction or preface".

How many syllables are in prefatory?

prefatory has 4 syllables: pre-fa-to-ry. The stress falls on "fa".

What is another word for prefatory?

Close synonyms include introductory, prefatorial. 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 prefatory a common word?

prefatory 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.