Meanings
adjectivepredental (not comparable)
alternative pre-dental
- not comparableBefore, and in preparation for, dental education.
Biology and chemistry are good subjects for premedical or predental coursework.
- not comparableIn front of the teeth.
- not comparablean erroneous misconstruction arising from erroneous parsing of compounds such as pre–dental surgery anxiety as *predental surgery anxiety, originating from various kinds of error: copyeditorial errors, optical character recognition errors, and transcoding loss of hard hyphens misinterpreted as soft hyphens.
nounpredental (plural predentals)
plural predentals · alternative pre-dental
- A person studying predentistry.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
- Proto-Italic*prai
- Proto-Italic*prai-
- Latinprae-
- Middle Englishpre-
- Englishpre-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃dónts
- Proto-Italic*dents
- Latindēns
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Medieval Latindentālis
- Middle Frenchdenta
- Late Latindentālis
- Englishdental
- Englishpredental
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with predental
environmentalrentaldentalexperimentalcontinentaldevelopmentalgentleinstrumentaldepartmentalaccidentalelementalintergovernmentaloccidentaltranscendentalnongovernmentalcoincidentallentiljudgmentalinterdepartmentaltemperamentalentalcompartmentalunsentimentalcental
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
predental. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/predental
MLA
“predental.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/predental. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “predental,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/predental.
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