ANTECEDENT Synonyms

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• a person from whom you are descended

• a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction)

• a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

• something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

• one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)

• something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

• earlier in time; previously

• at or in the front

• earlier in time; previously

• comparatives of `soon' or `early'

• before now

• (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early

• referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several)

• the first of two or the first mentioned of two

• belonging to some prior time

• (used especially of persons) of the immediate past

• belonging to the distant past

• someone who creates new things

• a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian

• an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained

• look after a child until it is an adult

• the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot

• earlier in time

• position or state of being dominant or in control

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• tending or directed upward

• most powerful or important or influential

• position or state of being dominant or in control

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• tending or directed upward

• most powerful or important or influential

• the founder of a family

• person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group

• an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time

• (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions

• a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws

• a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)

• preceding in time, order, or significance

• an ancestor in the direct line

• (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground

• the place where something begins, where it springs into being

• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

• a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number

• the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

• the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair

• take root and begin to grow

• come into existence, originate

• cheer for

• plant by the roots

• dig with the snout

• become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style

• cause to take roots