Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Adverb

Adverb

Noun

Proper Noun

The word "early" can be used as adjective, adjective, adverb, adverb, noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

late late late later middle tardy

Derived Terms

Christmas come early Early Assamese Early County Early Latin Early Modern Czech Early Proto-Indo-European Early Tripuri Early effect European early modern human an early age be a hundred years too early bright and early call it an early night earliness early Helladic early Showa early Shōwa early adopter early and late early bath early bells early binding early bird early bird special early blight early bloomer early bright early childhood early childhood education early closing early crow early day motion early days early door early doors early fetal demise early grave early infantile autism early innings early life check early lifer early mark early modern early music early night early on early position early purple orchid early queening early reader early retiree early retirement early retirement pensioner early return early riser early saxifrage early shower early spider orchid early spring orchis early syphilis early time early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise early vote early voter early voting early warning radar early warning system early winter cress early withdrawal early-bound early-day motion early-purple orchid early-to-bedder early-to-mid early-type star early-warning earlycomer earlyish earlywood get up early it's early days like turkeys voting for an early Christmas nice and early nonearly pseudoearly small and early the early bird catches the worm the early bird gets the worm twirly ultraearly

Derived From

ere

Distinct From

late

Context

linguistics

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

initial

Related Terms

premature

Related Terms

adjective advance am arrive arriving arriving somewhere barely before before late beginning coming coming before crow day first four four am in morning late morning occur on time prior rooster rooster crow seasonably shift six six am somewhere soon start sunrise time time day timing too too soon usual very very soon

Similar Terms

1st Old aboriginal aboriginal advance archaean archaean archaeozoic archaeozoic archaic archaic archean archeozoic azoic azoic beforehand beforehand crude earlier earliest earliest earlyish earlyish embryonic embryonic embryotic first future future immature inchoate incipient incipient new old past precocious precocious premature premature previous primaeval primal primeval primitive primordial proterozoic proterozoic proto proto rude rude untimely untimely wee wee young young

Synonym Network

ahead of time betimes early on former prematurely

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