Synonyms for Early:

• adj.

  •advance (adjective)
  • in lead,
  • in the forefront,
  • leading,
  • in front,
  • in forefront,
  • fore most,
  • be-forehand,
  • more previously,
  • fore-most,
  • be forehand,
  • most previously,
  • in the lead.
  •ahead in position or time (adjective)
  • advance.
  •all (adjective)
  • former,
  • early,
  • other.
  •ancient (adjective)
  • more relic,
  • ante-diluvian,
  • creakier,
  • out-of-date,
  • by gone,
  • creaky,
  • more oldie,
  • motheaten,
  • timeworn,
  • oldie,
  • by-gone,
  • age old,
  • out of date,
  • back number,
  • re mote,
  • creakiest,
  • old fashioned,
  • lot mileage,
  • most relic,
  • few miles on,
  • most oldie,
  • moth eaten,
  • ageold,
  • superannuated,
  • more fossil,
  • re-mote,
  • more out of date,
  • oldfashioned,
  • old goat,
  • ante diluvian,
  • been around,
  • worse for wear,
  • most fossil,
  • lot of mileage,
  • relic.
  •basic, fundamental (adjective)
  • rudimentary.
  •before recorded history (adjective)
  • prehistoric.
  •clean, pure; primeval (adjective)
  • pristine.
  •earliest (adjective)
  • primordial,
  • original.
  •early (adjective)
  • untimely,
  • precipitous,
  • half-baked,
  • premature.
  •embryonic (adjective)
  • most evolving,
  • most germinal,
  • most developing,
  • be ginning,
  • more evolving,
  • more germinal,
  • most beginning,
  • more beginning,
  • be-ginning,
  • un developed,
  • more developing,
  • un-developed,
  • elementary,
  • incipient,
  • germinal.
  •first (adjective)
  • most fundamental,
  • more opening,
  • in augural,
  • lead off,
  • in beginning,
  • more ahead,
  • head most,
  • right up front,
  • most headmost,
  • most opening,
  • more inaugural,
  • more headmost,
  • numero uno,
  • more primogenial,
  • most inaugural,
  • Primogenial,
  • most primogenial,
  • most ahead,
  • in-augural,
  • right front,
  • head-most,
  • in the beginning.
  •immature (adjective)
  • young.
  •infant/infantile (adjective)
  • un ripe,
  • growing,
  • more unfledged,
  • most newborn,
  • un fledged,
  • most dawning,
  • most infantine,
  • more newborn,
  • un-ripe,
  • most unfledged,
  • infant,
  • unfledged,
  • un-fledged,
  • more nascent,
  • un riper,
  • un-riper,
  • nascent,
  • un-ripest,
  • most nascent,
  • Kidder,
  • more infantine,
  • Infantine,
  • un ripest,
  • kiddest,
  • more dawning.
  •initial (adjective)
  • more initiative,
  • most initiative,
  • in choate,
  • in-choate,
  • virgin,
  • more commencing,
  • initiative,
  • most commencing.
  •introductory (adjective)
  • most inductive,
  • more proemial,
  • Proemial,
  • preparative,
  • pre cursory,
  • more starting,
  • most proemial,
  • pre-cursory,
  • precursory,
  • inductive,
  • more precursory,
  • provisional,
  • most starting,
  • pro-visional,
  • more prelusive,
  • most prelusive,
  • more preparative,
  • more inductive,
  • pro visional,
  • most precursory,
  • Prelusive,
  • prolegomenous,
  • most preparative.
  •old (adjective)
  • of old,
  • cast-off,
  • oldfangled,
  • wornout,
  • castoff,
  • time-worn,
  • olden,
  • of yore.
  •olden (adjective)
  • old as hills,
  • old as the hills.
  •on time (adjective)
  • punctual.
  •original (adjective)
  • underived,
  • underivative,
  • Rudimental,
  • First-hand.
  •past (adjective)
  • behind one,
  • way back when,
  • ex-,
  • long-ago,
  • ages ago,
  • olden days,
  • Latterday,
  • time was,
  • gone-by,
  • back when,
  • good old days,
  • long ago,
  • down memory lane,
  • one time,
  • way back,
  • ex,
  • gone by.
  •preceding (adjective)
  • anteceding,
  • preceding,
  • introductory,
  • foregoing,
  • avant-garde.
  •precocious (adjective)
  • smart alecky,
  • flipper.
  •prehistoric (adjective)
  • pre-historic,
  • pre historic.
  •previous (adjective)
  • over-soon,
  • Oversoon,
  • in opportune,
  • more oversoon,
  • more overearly,
  • over soon,
  • un-founded,
  • in-opportune,
  • most oversoon,
  • too early,
  • most overearly,
  • un founded,
  • overearly,
  • over early,
  • un-warranted,
  • over-early.
  •primal (adjective)
  • para-mount,
  • para mount.
  •primitive (adjective)
  • un evolved,
  • most unevolved,
  • sub-stratal,
  • unevolved,
  • under-lying,
  • un-evolved,
  • sub stratal,
  • most substratal,
  • more substratal,
  • more unevolved,
  • substratal.
  •pristine (adjective)
  • unpolluted,
  • Undebased,
  • Taintless,
  • unspotted.
  •punctual (adjective)
  • re-current,
  • re-gular,
  • re-liable,
  • most conscionable,
  • more conscionable,
  • on the button,
  • re liablest,
  • ex-act,
  • re current,
  • ex act,
  • on schedule,
  • re liabler,
  • conscionable,
  • under wire,
  • re-liabler,
  • on the dot,
  • on button,
  • on dot,
  • re-liablest,
  • re gular.
  •rudimentary (adjective)
  • vestigial,
  • uncompleted,
  • larval,
  • nuts-and-bolts.
  •sooner than expected (adjective)
  • ANON,
  • bright and early,
  • on short notice,
  • presently,
  • shortly,
  • unexpectedly,
  • Proximately,
  • pronto,
  • promptly,
  • far ahead,
  • quick,
  • in the bud,
  • briefly,
  • immediately,
  • directly.
  •untimely (adjective)
  • badly timed,
  • ill timed,
  • illtimed,
  • anachronistic,
  • too late,
  • mistimed,
  • ill-timed,
  • a bit previous.
  •young (adjective)
  • pubescent,
  • girllike,
  • Newish,
  • half-grown,
  • not aged,
  • boylike.

• adv

  •betimes (adverb)
  • seasonably.
  •soon (adverb)
  • any minute now,
  • coming down the pike,
  • fleetly,
  • by and by,
  • in due time,
  • in a second,
  • before long,
  • in a little while,
  • in time,
  • in short order,
  • Lickety Split,
  • in a short time,
  • in a minute.

• adv.

  •ahead of time (adverb)
  • ahead time.
  •all (adverb)
  • early on.
  •immediately (adverb)
  • summarily,
  • recently,
  • right away,
  • freshly,
  • in an instant,
  • straightaway,
  • without delay,
  • presto,
  • primitively,
  • at once,
  • in a jiffy,
  • thereon,
  • in no time,
  • newly,
  • timely,
  • instantly,
  • thereupon,
  • instantaneously.
  •prematurely (adverb)
  • pre-maturely,
  • precipitately,
  • pre maturely.
  •soon (adverb)
  • ere long,
  • soonest,
  • lickety-split,
  • post-haste,
  • expeditiously.
  •sooner than expected (adverb)
  • seasonable,
  • speedy,
  • anticipatory,
  • prompt,
  • direct,
  • Matinal,
  • anticipative,
  • unanticipated,
  • precipitant,
  • immediate,
  • preexistent,
  • before appointed time,
  • unexpected.

• n.

  •
  • spring,
  • dwarf,
  • bush,
  • by the time,
  • hardy,
  • northern.
  •
  • biennial,
  • arboreal,
  • bare,
  • start,
  • creeping,
  • bushy,
  • aromatic,
  • aquatic,
  • algal,
  • androgynous,
  • barren.
  •
  • from the get-go,
  • at first.
  •
  • at the earliest/first opportunity,
  • in the short run/term,
  • just,
  • around the corner,
  • imminent,
  • any day/moment etc. now,
  • close,
  • in no time (at all).
  •
  • the annals of something,
  • with time to spare,
  • in advance,
  • those were the days,
  • in retrospect,
  • rewrite history.
  •archaean (noun)
  • archaean.
  •archaeozoic (noun)
  • archaeozoic.
  •archaic (noun)
  • archaic.
  •archean (noun)
  • archean.
  •archeozoic (noun)
  • archeozoic.
  •azoic (noun)
  • azoic.
  •crude (noun)
  • crude.
  •earlier (noun)
  • earlier.
  •earliest (noun)
  • earliest.
  •early (noun)
  • at dawn,
  • too soon,
  • undeveloped,
  • autochthonous,
  • before the usual/arranged/expected time,
  • ahead of schedule,
  • early in the day,
  • precocious,
  • primeval,
  • advanced,
  • in the (early) morning,
  • at daybreak,
  • first,
  • initial,
  • early theatre,
  • in good time,
  • early symptoms/stages,
  • forward.
  •earlyish (noun)
  • earlyish.
  •embryo (noun)
  • embryo.
  •embryonic (noun)
  • embryonic.
  •embryotic (noun)
  • embryotic.
  •future (noun)
  • future.
  •immature (noun)
  • immature.
  •inchoate (noun)
  • inchoate.
  •in embryo (noun)
  • in embryo.
  •matutinal (noun)
  • matutinal.
  •primaeval (noun)
  • primaeval.
  •primal (noun)
  • primal.
  •proto (noun)
  • proto.
  •wee (noun)
  • wee.

• Other synonyms:

  •Proterozoic
  • proterozoic.
  •
  • Pre-,
  • juvenile,
  • development,
  • barely,
  • preemptive,
  • adolescence,
  • Since,
  • girlhood,
  • childlike,
  • all along,
  • developmental,
  • grow up,
  • first-ever,
  • originally,
  • first-time,
  • puberty,
  • date from,
  • upbringing,
  • school-age,
  • stripling,
  • leadoff,
  • the earliest,
  • infancy,
  • childhood,
  • Ere,
  • grow up on,
  • pre-existing,
  • date back to,
  • front end,
  • initially,
  • pioneer,
  • pester power,
  • mornings,
  • youth,
  • boyhood.
  •
  • predecessor,
  • ancient,
  • before,
  • forerunner,
  • childish,
  • minority,
  • retrospective,
  • beforehand,
  • historically,
  • babyish,
  • hangover,
  • prior,
  • previous,
  • holdover,
  • timeline,
  • opening.
  •
  • historical,
  • antediluvian.
  •
  • primary,
  • near,
  • ahead,
  • Toward.
  •
  • great.

Paraphrases for Early:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    precocious.
  • Proper noun, singular
    earlier, earliest.
  • Adverb
    earlier.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    early-stage.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    anticipatory, incipient, early-onset, youngest, late, well-informed, first-time, pre-term, teenage, first-ever, start-up, brief, snap, hasty.
  • Proper noun, singular
    youngsters, prerequisites, elders, Veterans, Alumni, Standards, headlines, Bas, feedstocks, Persons, schemes, beginning, beginnings, initially.
  • Adverb
    prematurely, previously, originally, already, shortly, swiftly, beforehand, late, initially, recently, readily, briefly.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    works.

Antonyms for Early:

• adj.

  • all
    middle, late.
  • in the beginning
    old, later, future, worn.
  • Other antonyms:
    intervening, new, delayed, higher, full-blown, present, complex, past, full-scale, full-fledged, high, slow, postponed.

Homophones for Early:

• Erly, Earlie, eerily, erolia, earl, euryale, ear hole, Earley.