Antonyms of verb postdate

2 senses of postdate

Sense 1
postdate, follow -- (be later in time; "Tuesday always follows Monday")
       Antonym of predate (Sense 1)
      => predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate -- (be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools")

Sense 2
postdate -- (establish something as being later relative to something else)
       Antonym of predate (Sense 4)
      => predate, antedate, foredate -- (establish something as being earlier relative to something else)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb postdate

2 senses of postdate

Sense 1
postdate, follow -- (be later in time; "Tuesday always follows Monday")

Sense 2
postdate -- (establish something as being later relative to something else)
       => chronologize, chronologise -- (establish the order in time of something; "The archivist chronologized the documents")

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