predecessive
predecessive adjective: going before; preceding.
Adjective
predecessive (not comparable)
- Going before; preceding.
- our predecessive students1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Philip Massinger, The Old Law
- Synonyms:
- antecedent, precedent
- Antonyms:
- successive
Synonyms of predecessive
Antonyms
Words that rhyme with predecessive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
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- recessive
- successive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- digressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- crescive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
Questions about predecessive
- What does predecessive mean?
- Predecessive means going before; preceding.
- What part of speech is predecessive?
- Predecessive is an adjective.
Words near predecessive in the dictionary
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