ANTECEDENCY Synonyms

• status established in order of importance or urgency

• preceding in time

• the quality of being important and worthy of note

• a prominent status

• high status importance owing to marked superiority

• a strong liking

• a predisposition in favor of something

• the right or chance to choose

• grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties)

• superiority in power or influence

• a superiority in numbers or amount

• exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight

• the state of being first in importance

• a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another

• relative status

• the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)

• position in a social hierarchy

• the body of members of an organization or group

• very fertile; producing profuse growth

• very offensive in smell or taste

• conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

• complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers

• growing profusely

• take or have a position relative to others

• assign a rank or rating to

• take precedence or surpass others in rank

• higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service

• the property of being long-lived

• the quality of being superior

• the quality of being at a competitive advantage

• displaying a sense of being better than others

• the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits

• preceding in time

• the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head

• preceding in time

• status established in order of importance or urgency

• preceding in time

• the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)