Usually means: Existing before; already in existence.
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  1. preexistent: Merriam-Webster
  2. preexistent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preexistent: Vocabulary.com
  4. preexistent: Wordnik
  5. preexistent: Wiktionary
  6. Preexistent, preexistent: Dictionary.com
  7. Preexistent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. preexistent: Rhymezone
  9. Preexistent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. preexistent: FreeDictionary.org
  11. preexistent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Preexistent: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. preexistent: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preexistent)

▸ adjective:  Existing previously.
▸ adjective:  Preceding existence.

Similar:
preceding, antecedent, prejacent, pre-existent, preexisting, preëxistent, preëxisting, prior, precedent, previous, more...

Opposite:
nonexistent, newly created, newly formed

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Similar:
preceding, antecedent, prejacent, pre-existent, preexisting, preëxistent, preëxisting, prior, precedent, previous, more...

Opposite:
nonexistent, newly created, newly formed



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