Word Meanings - PRECEDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2. (more info) 1. Going before; -- opposed to following.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRECEDING)

• Aforesaid
• Above-mentioned
• stated
• forenamed
• foregoing
• preceding
• forementioned
• Former
• Preceding
• antecedent
• previous
• prior
• earlier
• ancient
• bygone
• anterior
• first-mentioned
• Old
• Aged
• pristine
• long-standing
• antiquated
• obsolete
• senile antique
• Previous
• Antecedent
• former

Related words: (words related to PRECEDING)

• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• STATABLE
  That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• ANTIQUATION
  The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• STATISTICS
  Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• OBSOLETENESS
  Indistinctness; want of development. (more info) 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
• STATANT
  In a standing position; as, a lion statant.
• STATHMOGRAPH
  A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight.
• STATIONARY
  1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• ANTIQUATED
  Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See
• STATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a station.
• STATUARY
  The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. Sir W. Temple. 3. A collection of statues; statues, collectively. (more info) statuarius, a., of or belonging to statues, fr. statua statue:
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• ESTATLICH; ESTATLY
  Stately; dignified. Chaucer.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• HEMASTATICS
  Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• BIOSTATICS
  The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.