- antecedent, preceding - preceding in time or order
Antonyms: subsequent, consequent, ensuant, resultant, resulting, sequent, future, later, ulterior
- ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root - someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
--1 is a kind of relative, relation
--1 has particulars:ancestress; forebear, forbear; forefather, father, sire; foremother; progenitor, primogenitor - antecedent - a preceding occurrence or cause or event
--2 is a kind of cause
Derived form: verb antecede1 - antecedent, forerunner - anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
--3 is a kind of temporal relation
- antecedent - the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
--4 is a kind of referent