Earlier

[adv] earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before"; "as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier"
[adv] before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
[adv] comparatives of `soon' or `early'; "Come a little sooner, if you can"; "came earlier than I expected"
[adj] (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early; "a fashion popular in earlier times"; "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"; "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"
[adj] occurring earlier in time; "on earlier occasions"

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Synonyms

before, earliest, early, in the beginning, in the first place, originally, past, sooner, to begin with

Related Terms

aforetime, already, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, as yet, before, before all, before now, beforehand, beforetime, ci-devant, down, early, elder, ere, ere then, erenow, erewhile, erst, erstwhile, first, fore, foregoing, former, formerly, heretofore,