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EARLIEST Synonyms: 6 Synonyms & Antonyms for EARLIEST

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• adj.first

synonyms for earliest

• archetypal
• original
• primal
• primeval
• primitive

antonyms for earliest

MOST RELEVANT

• latest

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How to use earliest in a sentence

“The sepoys have come in from Meerut,” he announced with the slow tick of the earliest form of apparatus.

THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY

Oddly enough this assumption—the most warrantable of the lot—was the earliest to fall under disrepute.

THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK

Yung Pak's earliest days were spent very much as are those of most babies, whether they live in Korea or America.

OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSINH. LEE M. PIKE

My earliest recollection in connection with railways is my first railway journey, which took place when I was four years of age.

FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOW

Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.

THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN

As you have already been told, Yung Pak had from his earliest days been taught the deepest reverence and honour for his father.

OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSINH. LEE M. PIKE

From the earliest days great commanders have rubbed in the maxim, "If you attack, attack with all your force. "

GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON

The earliest note we really have of thimbles being manufactured in Birmingham dates as 1695.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

Opened as far back as 1834, it was amongst the earliest of the railway lines of the whole United Kingdom.

FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOW

In personal appearance she was, in earliest childhood and through life, peculiarly interesting rather than beautiful.

MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT

WORDS RELATED TO EARLIEST

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• primitive
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• opening
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• pioneer
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[ ur-lee ]

/ ˈɜr li /

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adverb, ear·li·er, ear·li·est.

in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.

in the early part of the morning: to get up early.

before the usual or appointed time; ahead of time: They came early and found their hosts still dressing.

far back in time: The Greeks early learned to sail and navigate.

adjective, ear·li·er, ear·li·est.

occurring in the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: an early hour of the day.

occurring before the usual or appointed time: an early dinner.

belonging to a period far back in time: early French architecture.

occurring in the near future: I look forward to an early reply.

(of a fruit or vegetable) appearing or maturing before most others of its type: early apples.

noun, plural ear·lies.

a fruit or vegetable that appears before most others of its type.

OTHER WORDS FOR early

5 initial.

6 beforehand, premature.

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Idioms about early

early on, with but little time elapsed; early in the course of a process, project, etc.; early in the game.

Origin of early

before 950; Middle English erlich (adj.), erliche (adv.), Old English ǣrlīc, ǣrlīce, mutated variant of ārlīc, ārlīce, equivalent to ār- early (positive of ǣrere) + līc(e) -ly

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Words nearby early

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Early

[ ur-lee ]

/ ˈɜr li /

noun

Ju·bal Anderson [joo-buhl], /ˈdʒu bəl/, 1816–94, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.

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Words related to early

fresh, initial, new, previous, recent, daybreak, first blush, first light, beforehand, briefly, directly, immediately, prematurely, promptly, quick, shortly, soon, unexpectedly, immediate, first

How to use early in a sentence

• Working two guided trips a summer could earn early guides enough to buy a few more cows and raise the quality of life of an entire extended family.

  It’s Time to Embrace Ski Guiding|Marc Peruzzi|February 26, 2021|Outside Online

• They pointed to an earlier message McCoy posted prior to his apology giving a different reason for deleting his post about obese people.

  FOX 5’s McCoy suspended over offensive Tweet|Lou Chibbaro Jr.|February 24, 2021|Washington Blade

• The earlier proposal called for a 25,599-square-foot building.

  Rehoboth theater supporters hopeful for approval of new buildings|Lou Chibbaro Jr.|February 23, 2021|Washington Blade

• To find the case assignments that went to ineligible attorneys, we compared the assignment date to the earliest date that an attorney appeared on a list in any court in the state.

  Lawyers Who Were Ineligible to Handle Serious Criminal Charges Were Given Thousands of These Cases Anyway|by Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica|February 23, 2021|ProPublica

• In the earlier cold snap, the grid was pushed to the limit and rolling blackouts swept the state, spurring an angry Legislature to order a study of what went wrong.

  “Power Companies Get Exactly What They Want”: How Texas Repeatedly Failed to Protect Its Power Grid Against Extreme Weather|by Jeremy Schwartz, Kiah Collier and Vianna Davila|February 22, 2021|ProPublica

• When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.

  Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST

• It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.

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• At first—it was the early stages of reporting—I was amused at having been so crassly underestimated.

  I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003|Vicky Ward|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

• Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.

  ‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

• Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

  Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

• The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

  The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock

• When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.

  The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills

• In the early stages of chronic nephritis, when diagnosis is difficult, it is usually normal.

  A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

• He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.

  The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell

• Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter.

  Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.

British Dictionary definitions for early

early

/ (ˈɜːlɪ) /

adjective -lier or -liest

before the expected or usual time

occurring in or characteristic of the first part of a period or sequence

occurring in or characteristic of a period far back in time

occurring in the near future

at the earliest not before the time or date mentioned

early days too soon to tell how things will turn out

adverb -lier

before the expected or usual time

near the first part of a period or sequenceI was talking to him earlier

Derived forms of early

Word Origin for early

Old English ǣrlīce, from ǣr ere + -līce -ly ²; related to Old Norse arliga

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with early

In addition to the idioms beginning with early

• early bird catches the worm
• early on
• early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise)

also see:

• bright and early

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

how when it is written, rules, examples

The word " early " is spelled correctly together , as here and first in the title. Writing it as a phrase, separately ( "earlier" ), is incorrect, since "earlier" is an adverb of comparative degree from another adverb - "earlier" .

In sentences like “According to the previously assigned condition ...” , etc., it is strongly recommended to use the speech construction "Before..." , since the phrase "before..." is considered vulgar.

Rules

According to Russian spelling, degrees of adverbs can be formed with the use of prefixes "in-" , "to-" , "for-" , "not-" and "90" . In this case, all the prefixes used in each specific case are written together with the original words:

1. voluntarily - involuntarily - rather - displeasedly0007 ;
2. little - a lot - little by little; a lot - a little - a little ;
3. early - in advance; early - early - early ; late - later - later ;
4. rarely - often; less often - less often; often - infrequently - more often - often ;
5. therefore - as a result of - subsequently ,

1. If the original adverb together with “to-” generates an adverb of a different meaning (another lexical category), see below. Then the correct spelling of the prefix will be through a hyphen: “before” (adverbial tense) - “still” (definitive comparisons and assimilations - “as always”). In this case, the already fused spelling will be erroneous: “as before” is wrong!
2. Also, with a hyphen from “to-” , adverbs of comparison and assimilation are written, formed from adjectives and possessive pronouns: "female" (from "female" , "female" , "female" ), "in my opinion" (from "my" , "my" "mine" ), etc.
3. If "in" , "before" , "for" , "not" , "on" , etc. are prepositions in the statement, not prefixes to the word. Prepositions with other parts of speech are written separately. In this case, the preposition refers to another word in the sentence, since adverbs are invariable words and are not used with prepositions. For example: " According to earlier (earlier) signified agreement ..." (preposition "by" refers to noun "agreement" in the dative case). To check, we reconstruct the phrase, reducing the preposition with its “target” word: “ According to agreement , denoted by earlier (earlier) ...” - the meaning of the sentence has not changed, which means that “according to” here and in itself deed preposition; "Walking through the thicket of the forest" (here "more often" is also a dative case from "thicket" ). To check, we change the preposition to a synonymous one (of the same meaning in this context): “Walking through the thicket of the forest” .
   
4. The most difficult case for those who do not speak the language well is when “not” correlates with the adverb not as a prefix, but as a negative particle, i.e. an independent member of the sentence (specifically, a circumstance). Here "not" with adverbs should be written separately. However, checking spelling along with style in this case is simple - such verbal constructions are built:
   • A). On an explicit opposition (direct antithesis): "Your statement is not true , but false" ; "This evidence is not unambiguous but highly debatable" . Check: we replace adverbs with adjectives from which they come - "true" , "correct" , "false" , "erroneous" , "unambiguous" , "clear" , "clear"

     4,

     controversial" , "doubtful" , etc. The syllable of the statement may be lame, but the meaning will not change.
   • B). To express doubt through the interrogative particle "whether" and, often, enhancing the emotional coloring of the statement of additional adverbs of the method and manner of action ( "very" , "too" , "too" ): " Not true should we refuse to renew this agreement than to revise it? ; "And not too much how often do you get on with me without a good reason?"