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Antedate

🔄 Synonyms of "Antedate"

5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
precedeverb	(transitive) To go before, go in front of.
foregoverb	To precede, to go before.
antecedeverb	To go before; to precede.
predateverb	(transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
foredateverb	(transitive) To date in advance

↔️ Antonyms of "Antedate"

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
followverb	(ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
postdateverb	(transitive) To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Antedate"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
predateverb	(transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
foredateverb	(transitive) To date in advance
antecedeverb	To go before; to precede.
precedeverb	(transitive) To go before, go in front of.
foregoverb	To precede, to go before.
backdateverb	To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.
pre-dateverb	Alternative form of predate. [To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)]
lead up toverb	(idiomatic) To set in motion; to act as a causal or preparatory event or sequence of events.
premisenoun	A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
advancenoun	A forward move; improvement or progression.
postdateverb	(transitive) To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date.
preexistverb	(intransitive) To exist before something else.
prepositionnoun	(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
foreliveverb	To live or come before; precede
post-datenoun	Alternative form of postdate. [A date on a document later than the real date on which it was written.]
preventverb	(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
bring forwardverb	To make something happen earlier than originally planned.
preposenoun	(transitive) To place or set (something) before; to prefix.
prelocateverb	(transitive) To locate in advance.
set aheadverb	(transitive) To move forward, often in reference to the time setting on a clock.