| early | | |
| adj. | 1. early | at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time.; "early morning"; "an early warning"; "early diagnosis"; "an early death"; "took early retirement"; "an early spring"; "early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties" |
| ~ primaeval, primeval, primordial, primal, aboriginal | having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state.; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life" |
| ~ advance, beforehand | being ahead of time or need.; "gave advance warning"; "was beforehand with her report" |
| ~ archaean, archean | of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon. |
| ~ archaeozoic, archeozoic | of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era.; "archeozoic life forms" |
| ~ azoic | before the appearance of life.; "azoic rocks contain not organic remains" |
| ~ earlier, earliest | (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" |
| ~ earlyish | being somewhat early.; "at an earlyish hour" |
| ~ untimely, premature | uncommonly early or before the expected time.; "illness led to his premature death"; "alcohol brought him to an untimely end" |
| ~ premature, previous | too soon or too hasty.; "our condemnation of him was a bit previous"; "a premature judgment" |
| ~ proterozoic | formed in the later of two divisions of the Precambrian era.; "proterozoic life forms" |
| ~ proto | indicating the first or earliest or original.; "`proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages" |
| ~ wee | very early.; "the wee hours of the morning" |
| ~ first | preceding all others in time or space or degree.; "the first house on the right"; "the first day of spring"; "his first political race"; "her first baby"; "the first time"; "the first meetings of the new party"; "the first phase of his training" |
| adj. | 2. early | being or occurring at an early stage of development.; "in an early stage"; "early forms of life"; "early man"; "an early computer" |
| ~ archaic, primitive | little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type.; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe" |
| ~ young, new | (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity.; "new potatoes"; "young corn" |
| ~ primitive, crude, rude | belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness.; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains" |
| ~ embryotic, embryonic | in an early stage of development.; "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing" |
| ~ inchoate, incipient | only partly in existence; imperfectly formed.; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" |
| ~ precocious | appearing or developing early.; "precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias" |
| adj. | 3. early, former, other | belonging to the distant past.; "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times" |
| ~ past | earlier than the present time; no longer current.; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
| adj. | 4. early | very young.; "at an early age" |
| ~ young, immature | (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth.; "young people" |
| adj. | 5. early | of an early stage in the development of a language or literature.; "the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C."; "Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700" |
| ~ linguistics | the scientific study of language. |
| ~ old | of a very early stage in development.; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century" |
| adj. | 6. early | expected in the near future.; "look for an early end to the negotiations" |
| ~ future | yet to be or coming.; "some future historian will evaluate him" |
| adv. | 7. early, early on | during an early stage.; "early on in her career" |
| adv. | 8. ahead of time, early, too soon | before the usual time or the time expected.; "she graduated early"; "the house was completed ahead of time" |
| adv. | 9. betimes, early | in good time.; "he awoke betimes that morning" |
| just in time | | |
| adv. | 1. in the nick of time, just in time | at the last possible moment.; "she was saved in the nick of time" |
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