Synonyms for earlier

Similarity of adj earlier

1 sense of earlier

Sense 1:

earlier, earliest
early (vs. middle) (vs. late)

Similarity of adj early

6 senses of early

Sense 1:

early (vs. middle) (vs. late)
aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordialadvance(prenominal), beforehand(predicate)archean, archaeanarcheozoic, archaeozoicazoicearlier, earliestearlyishpremature, untimelyprevious(predicate), prematureproterozoicproto(prenominal)wee

Also See: first#1

Sense 2:

early (vs. late)
archaic, primitivenew, youngcrude, primitive, rudeembryonic, embryoticincipient, inchoateprecocious

Sense 3:

early(prenominal), former(prenominal), other(prenominal)
past (vs. present) (vs. future)

Sense 4:

early
young (vs. old), immature

Sense 5:

early (vs. middle) (vs. late)
Old

Sense 6:

early
future (vs. past) (vs. present)
Synonyms of adv earlier

3 senses of earlier

Sense 1:

earlier, before

Sense 2:

sooner, earlier

Sense 3:

in the first place, earlier, in the beginning, to begin with, originally