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earlier

 
Adjective early has 6 senses
  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"
    Antonyms:
    earlier, earliest, 6 senses of early , early, middle, intervening, mid, late, advanced, ripe, after-hours, latish, posthumous
    Antonym: middle (indirect, via late, early)
    Antonym: late (indirect, via early, middle)
    Antonym: middle (indirect, via late, early)
    Antonym: late (indirect, via early, middle)
  2. early - being or occurring at an early stage of development; "in an early stage"; "early forms of life"; "early man"; "an early computer"
    Antonyms:
    early, late, later, advanced, tardive
  3. early, former, other - of the distant past; "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times"
    Antonyms: early, former, other
    Antonym: present (indirect, via future, past)
    Antonym: future (indirect, via past, present)
    Antonym: present (indirect, via future, past)
    Antonym: future (indirect, via past, present)
  4. early - very young; "at an early age"
    Antonym:
    early
    Antonym: old (indirect, via young)
    Antonym: old (indirect, via young)
  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"
    Antonyms:
    early, middle, late, Modern, New
  6. early - expected in the near future; "look for an early end to the negotiations"
    Antonym:
    early
    Antonym: past (indirect, via present, future)
    Antonym: present (indirect, via future, past)
    Antonym: past (indirect, via present, future)
    Antonym: present (indirect, via future, past)
Adverbial earlier has 3 senses
  1. earlier, before - 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"
  2. sooner, earlier - comparatives of `soon' or `early'; "Come a little sooner, if you can"; "came earlier than I expected"
  3. in the first place, earlier, in the beginning, to begin with, originally - before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
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