Usually means: Existing before a specified event.
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  1. preexisting: Merriam-Webster
  2. preexisting: Vocabulary.com
  3. Preexisting, preexisting: Wordnik
  4. preexisting: Wiktionary
  5. preexisting: Dictionary.com
  6. Preexisting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. preexisting: Rhymezone
  8. Preexisting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. preexisting: FreeDictionary.org
  10. preexisting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. preexisting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Preexisting: Dictionary.com

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  2. preexisting: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preexisting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preexisting)

▸ adjective:  Already in existence before something else.

Similar:
preexistent, pre-existent, prejacent, preëxisting, preëxistent, precedentary, precedent, leading, preceding, predecessory, more...

Opposite:
nonexistent, new, novel, fresh, original

Types:
genetic, environmental, acquired, congenital, more...

Phrases:
preexisting condition, more...

Adjectives:
natural, right, vapor, severe, certain, such, significant, oceanbottom, single, various

Colors:
    beige,     gray,     taupe,     olive,     mustard, more...

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Similar:
preexistent, pre-existent, prejacent, preëxisting, preëxistent, precedentary, precedent, leading, preceding, predecessory, more...

Opposite:
nonexistent, new, novel, fresh, original

Types:
genetic, environmental, acquired, congenital, more...

Phrases:
preexisting condition, more...

Adjectives:
natural, right, vapor, severe, certain, such, significant, oceanbottom, single, various

Colors:
    beige,     gray,     taupe,     olive,     mustard, more...



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