Synonyms of the word

preceding

• adj. Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
• v. present participle of precede.

above

• prep. Physically over; on top of; worn on top of, as clothing.
• prep. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; — opposed to below or beneath.
• prep. Farther north than.
• prep. Rising; appearing out of reach height-wise.
• prep. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; higher in measure, degree, volume,…
• prep. Higher in rank, status, or position.
• prep. In addition to; besides.
• prep. Surpassing in number or quantity; more than.
• prep. In preference to.
• prep. Too proud to stoop; averse to; disinclined; too honorable to give.
• prep. (theater) Upstage of.
• prep. Beyond; on the other side.
• adv. Directly overhead; vertically on top of.
• adv. Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go.
• adv. Into or from heaven; in the sky.
• adv. In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream.
• adv. Higher in rank, power, or position.
• adv. (archaic) In addition.
• adv. More in number.
• adv. Above zero; above freezing.
• adv. (biology) On the upper half or the dorsal surface of an animal.
• adj. Of heaven; heavenly.
• adj. Being located higher on the same page or on a preceding page.
• n. Heaven.
• n. Something, especially a person's name in legal documents, that appears higher on the same page or on a…
• n. Higher authority.
• n. (archaic) betterment, raised status or condition.

above-mentioned

• adj. Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.

above-named

• adj. Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.

antecedent

• adj. Earlier, either in time or order.
• adj. presumptive.
• n. Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
• n. An ancestor.
• n. (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
• n. (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.
• n. (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated…
• n. (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.

anterior

• adj. Before in place.
• adj. Before or earlier in time; prior to; preceding.
• adj. (anatomy) Nearer the forward end; nearer the head of an animal or the front of a human.

anticipatory

• adj. Characterized by anticipation.

foregoing

• adj. Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
• v. present participle of forego.

introductory

• adj. introducing; giving a preview or idea of.

old

• adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
• adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
• adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
• adj. (heading) Of an earlier time.
• adj. Tiresome.
• adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
• adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old,…
• adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
• n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.

outgoing

• adj. Comfortable in social settings and interactions; confident in dealing with people especially in meeting…
• adj. (not comparable) Going out, on its way out.
• adj. (not comparable) Being replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined that…
• n. The act of leaving or going out; exit, departure.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Money that leaves one's possession; expenditure, outlay, expense.
• n. The extreme limit; the place of ending.
• v. present participle of outgo.

past

• n. The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
• n. (grammar) The past tense.
• adj. Having already happened; in the past; finished.
• adj. (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
• adj. Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
• adj. (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
• adv. in a direction that passes.
• adv. Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
• prep. beyond in place, quantity or time.

pre-existent

• adj. Alternative form of preexistent.

pre-existing

• v. present participle of pre-exist.

precedent

• n. An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in…
• n. (law) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
• n. (obsolete, with definite article) The aforementioned (thing).
• n. The previous version.
• n. (obsolete) A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
• adj. Happening or taking place earlier in time; previous or preceding.
• adj. (now rare) Coming before in a particular order or arrangement; preceding, foregoing.
• v. (transitive, law) To provide precedents for.
• v. (transitive, law) To be a precedent for.

preceding

• adj. Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
• v. present participle of precede.

preexistent

• adj. Existing previously.
• adj. Preceding existence.

preexisting

• v. present participle of preexist.
• adj. Already in existence before (something else).

prefatorial

• adj. prefatory.

prefatory

• adj. introductory, preliminary, serving as a prelude or preface.

premedical

• adj. Describing activities prior to, or in preparation for, a study of medicine.

preparative

• adj. That serves to prepare something.
• adj. preliminary or preparatory.
• n. Something to be done in preparation; a preliminary.

preparatory

• adj. of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.

prevenient

• adj. Of or pertaining to prevenience.

previous

• adj. Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.
• adj. (informal) Premature; acting or occurring too soon.
• n. (informal, Britain) An existing criminal record (short for "previous convictions"); loosely, a track record…

prior

• adj. advance; coming before.
• adj. former, previous.
• adv. (colloquial) Previously.
• n. A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.
• n. (US slang) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record.
• n. (statistics) In Bayesian inference, a prior probability distribution.

propaedeutic

• adj. Providing preparatory or introductory teaching.
• n. Such a course of instruction.

retiring

• adj. Shy, introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.
• adj. About to retire from work.
• v. present participle of retire.
• n. retirement.