Antonyms for "dates back" might include "current," "recent," or "modern." These words suggest that something is new or timely, rather than having a long history. Alternatively, antonyms could include "speculative," "unverified," or "mythical." This would indicate that the origin of a particular item or idea is not known for sure, or that there is some debate about its authenticity. In general, antonyms for "dates back" would suggest a lack of historical context or a sense of uncertainty about the origins of something.

What are the antonyms for Dates back?

• v.

  • antedate
  • predate
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Famous quotes with Dates back

• On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

  Robert Delaunay
• The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

  Anna Friel
• The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

  Christian Lous Lange
• Well, it's always very difficult to say what prompts anybody to do anything, let alone getting underwater and teaching ravens to fly. But I think it probably all dates back to a very early age, when I was quite a young fellow. My mother, Lady Beryl Streeb-Greebling, you know, the wonderful dancer — 107 tomorrow and still dancing — she came up to me in the conservatory — I was pruning some walnuts — and she said "Arthur" — I wasn't Sir Arthur in those days — she said "Arthur, if you don't get underwater and start teaching ravens to fly, I'll smash your stupid face off," and I think it was this that sort of first started my interest in the whole business of getting them underwater.

  Peter Cook
• Their right(colored Americans), like that of their white fellow-citizens, dates back to the dread arbitrament of war. Their bones whiten every stricken field of the Revolution; their feet tracked with blood the snows of Jersey; their toil built up every fortification south of the Potomac; they shared the famine and nakedness of Valley Forge, and the pestilential horrors of the old Jersey prison ship.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

Related words & questions

Related words: back to the future, back to school, back to the roots, back to basics, back to the grind, back to nature

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