prelusive
31preparatory — I adjective anticipatory, beginning, early, expectant, foundational, inaugural, inceptive, incipient, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, opening, precautionary, precedent, preceding, precursory, prefatory, preliminary, preludial,… …
32previous — I adjective above cited, above mentioned, above named, aforementioned, aforesaid, already indicated, antecedent, anterior, earlier, early, erstwhile, first, fore, foregoing, foregone, forementioned, forerunning, former, initial, initiatory,… …
33antecedent — Synonyms and related words: agency, ancestor, ancestors, announcer, antecede, antecedents, antedate, anterior, anticipatory, ascendant, ascendants, avant garde, base, basis, bellwether, buccinator, bushwhacker, call, causation, cause, cause and… …
34anterior — Synonyms and related words: album, ana, analects, antecedent, anticipatory, chief, ci devant, collection, compilation, delectus, earlier, early, elder, exordial, first, florilegium, fore, foregoing, forehand, foremost, former, forward, front,… …
35chief — Synonyms and related words: A per se, Big Brother, ace, achievement, acmatic, alerion, all absorbing, animal charge, annulet, anointed king, antecedent, anterior, apical, arch, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, ascendant, at the head,… …
36first — Synonyms and related words: ab initio, ab ovo, aborigine, ahead, alpha, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, arch, at first, at the start, banner, basic, before, before everything, beforehand, beginning, blue ribbon, breaking in, by choice, by… …
37foremost — Synonyms and related words: ahead, all absorbing, antecedent, anterior, arch, banner, before, best, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, controlling, crowning, dominant, exordial, first, firstly, focal, fore, foregoing, forehand, forward …
38headmost — Synonyms and related words: acmatic, ahead, antecedent, anterior, apical, arch, banner, before, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, consummate, crowning, dominant, exordial, first, focal, fore, foregoing, forehand, foremost, forward,… …
39inaugural — Synonyms and related words: abecedarian, aboriginal, address, advanced, after dinner speech, allocution, antecedent, antenatal, anterior, autochthonous, avant garde, baccalaureate service, beginning, budding, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony,… …
40inductive — Synonyms and related words: Baconian, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, analytic, categorical, conditional, deductive, dialectic, discursive, enthymematic, epagogic, hypothetical, inferential, introductory, maieutic, prefatory, prelim,… …
