Preceding
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Preceding adjective – Going before another in time or order. Usage example: had not eaten since the preceding day
Subsequent is an antonym for preceding in following topic.
Nearby Words: precede, precedent, precedence, preceded
Antonyms for Preceding
Subsequent
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Subsequent adjective – Being, occurring, or carried out at a time after something else. Usage example: I'll do the first problem as an example, but all subsequent efforts must be done on your own
Preceding is an antonym for subsequent in topics: after, previous.
Nearby Words: subsequently, subsequence
Antonyms for Subsequent
Things that words describes
| turn | preceding turn | subsequent turn |
| scene | preceding scene | subsequent scene |
| episode | preceding episode | subsequent episode |
| season | preceding season | subsequent season |
| Other nouns: level, game, book, album, fight, battle, conversation, film, war, movies, movie, years, attacks, books, events, chapters, stories, films, games, scenes, seasons, levels, missions, episodes, albums. | ||
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Great Offscreen War: The Braal-Imsk conflict during the five-year gap preceding the Giffen/Bierbaum run is only seen in flashback glimpses, but it casts a massive shadow over subsequent events.
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The final scene of the story is the first chronologically, and includes a revelation that casts new light on some of the preceding-subsequent events.
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A Good Compromise: Tyria Sark, a joined Trill, apparently equates Vorta reincarnation-by-cloning with Trill symbionts' ability to Body Surf (giving subsequent hosts the memories and some of the personality traits and tics of preceding ones).
Source: Language Equals Thought
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