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2. pathfinder, advance man, pioneer, trailblazer, explorer; harbinger, herald, messenger, usher, avant-courier; vanguard, apostle, missionary, man from Cook's; pioneer, Mil. point man, front rider, outrider; leader, bellwether, Judas goat.
precursory, adj. precursive, precedent, antecedent, prior, anterior, previous, prevenient; forerunning, foregoing, anticipatory, preparatory; preliminary, introductory, inaugural, prelusive or prelusory, initiatory; prognostic, prognosticative, Pathol, prodromal, premonitory, indicative, warning, presageful.
predate, v. 1. antedate, occur earlier, precede in time, happen earlier in time, belong to an earlier time, come from an earlier time.
2. record in advance, date beforetimes; date back, set back in time.
predatory, adj. 1. rapacious, predacious, preying, vulturine, raptorial; wolfish, lupine; ravenous, ravening, voracious, devouring, omnivorous, insatiable, cormorant, savage, bestial, fierce, bloodthirsty, hungry.
2. marauding, plundering, pillaging, looting, piratical, robbing; pilfering, thieving, light-fingered, larcenous; extortionate, usurious; greedy, avaricious, grasping, acquisitive, covetous.
predecessor, n. precursor, antecessor, antecedent, foregoer, forerunner, former job or office holder.
predestinate, v. 1. Theology, (all by divine decree or purpose) fate, ordain, doom, Rare, destinate; predetermine, predestine, preordain, foreordain, foreordinate, foredoom, predecide, preelect, Inf. have in store for.
-adj. 2. ordained, doomed, destined, fated, fatal, fateful, Rare, destinated, Obs. destinal, Obs. destin-able; written, in the cards, on the books; predestined, predestinated, predetermined, preordained, foreordained, foredoomed, predecided, prelected.
predestination, n. 1. predetermination, preordination, predeliberation, preelection, foreordination, foreordainment, foredoom; predetermining, preordaining, preordinating, predeliberating.
2. fate, fortune, lot, cup, portion, die, doom, Archaic. foredoom, Chiefly Scot. weird, writing on the wall, Brit. Inf cup of tea; destiny, kismet, karma, Obs. destine. See - destiny (def. 3).
3. Theology, election, appointment; double predestination.
predetermined, adj. 1. prearranged, set-up, predecided, decided or settled in advance, predesigned, preplanned; foregone, cut-and-dried, already settled or decided or resolved.
2. deliberate, intentional, intended, meant; planned, calculated, studied, thought-out, meditated, premeditated.
3. ordained, doomed, fated, fatal, fateful, destined, Rare, destinated, Obs. destinal, Obs. destinable; written, in the cards, on the books; predestined, predestinate, predestinated, predeterminate, preordained, foreordained, foredoomed, preelected.
predicament, n. 1. trying situation, trial, embarrassment, SI. hot seat, hot spot, hot water, stew, Inf. dead end; crisis, conjuncture, fix, impasse, deadlock, crux, hitch, rub, bind; All Inf. clutch, jam, fix, scrape, corner, hole, box, mess, pretty kettle of fish, fine how-do-you-do or how-de-do, pretty state of affairs, pretty pass, SI. screw-up.
2. dilemma, quandary, perplexity, knot, puzzle, poser, paradox, knotty place, vexed question; imbroglio, intricacy, entanglement, maze; slough, muddle, quagmire; dangerous condition, plight, extremity, hornet's nest, Archaic, hobble, straits, pinch, exigency, emergency, problem, trouble, distress, difficulty.
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