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antecedent
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of ANTECEDENT
1
someone or something responsible for a result <what are the antecedents of the American Revolutionary War?>
Related Words consideration, determinant, factor; alpha and omega, be-all and end-all; impetus, incentive, inspiration, instigation, stimulus; mother, origin, root, source, spring
Near Antonyms ramification; denouement (also dénouement), repercussion; conclusion, end; by-product, side effect (also side reaction)
2
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed <the typewriter is the antecedent of the computer keyboard>
Synonyms antecedent, archetype, daddy, foregoer, forerunner, granddaddy (also grandaddy), precursor, predecessor, prototype
Antonyms descendant (also descendent)
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