father vs antecedent

antecedent vs father

father and antecedent both are nouns.

father is not an adjective while antecedent is an adjective.

father is a verb but antecedent is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
father	Yes	No	Yes	No
antecedent	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, antecedent is a hypernym of father; that is, antecedent is a word with a broader meaning than father:

father: the founder of a family
antecedent: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

Other hypernyms of father include ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, root.

father (noun)	antecedent (noun)
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)	the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
the founder of a family	a preceding occurrence or cause or event
a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization	someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
a person who founds or establishes some institution	anything that precedes something similar in time
the head of an organized crime family

father (adjective)	antecedent (adjective)
	preceding in time or order

father (verb)	antecedent (verb)
make (offspring) by reproduction

Difference between father and antecedent

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