Synonyms of the word

early

• adj. At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
• adj. Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
• adj. Near the start or beginning.
• adj. Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
• adv. At a time before expected; sooner than usual.
• adv. Soon; in good time; seasonably.
• n. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day.

aboriginal

• adj. First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
• adj. Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
• adj. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal.
• n. An animal or plant native to a region.
• n. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal.

advance

• v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
• v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
• v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
• v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
• v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
• v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
• v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
• v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
• v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
• n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
• n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
• n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
• n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
• adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
• adj. Preceding.
• adj. Forward.

archaean

• n. (biology) Any organism of the domain Archaea.

archaic

• n. (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between…
• n. (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
• adj. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
• adj. (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
• adj. (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period.

azoic

• adj. (dated) Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life.
• adj. (dated) Anterior to the existence of animal life.
• adj. (dated) Formed when there was no animal life on the globe.

beforehand

• adv. At an earlier or preceding time.
• adj. (obsolete) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.
• adj. In a state of anticipation or preoccupation; often followed by with.

betimes

• adv. (dated) In good season or time; early, especially in the morning.
• adv. (archaic) In a short time, soon.

crude

• adj. Being in a natural state.
• adj. Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
• adj. Lacking concealing elements.
• adj. Lacking tact or taste.
• adj. (statistics) Being in an unanalyzed form.
• adj. (archaic) Immature or unripe.
• adj. (grammar) pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
• n. Any substance in its natural state.
• n. Crude oil.

earlier

• adj. comparative form of early: more early.
• adj. occurring previously.
• adv. comparative form of early: more early.
• adv. previously; before now; sooner.

earliest

• adj. superlative form of early: most early.
• adv. superlative form of early: most early.

earlyish

• adj. Somewhat early.

embryonic

• adj. (embryology) Of or relating to an embryo.
• adj. (figuratively) Of a project, etc: very new and still evolving; yet to reach its full potential.

embryotic

• adj. embryonic.

first

• adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
• adj. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
• adv. Before anything else; firstly.
• n. (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
• n. (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
• n. (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
• n. (countable, baseball) first base.
• n. (countable, Britain, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
• n. (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
• n. A fraction of an integer ending in one.
• n. (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

former

• adj. Previous.
• adj. First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.
• n. Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.
• n. An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die.
• n. (chiefly Britain, used in combinations) Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).

future

• n. The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
• n. Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
• n. Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
• n. (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
• n. (finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will…
• n. (computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
• n. (sports) A minor-league prospect.
• adj. Having to do with or occurring in the future.

immature

• adj. Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
• adj. Childish in behavior, not mature.
• n. An immature member of a species.

inchoate

• adj. Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
• adj. Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
• n. (rare) A beginning, an immature start.
• v. To begin or start something.
• v. To cause or bring about.
• v. To make a start.

incipient

• adj. In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.
• n. (countable, obsolete) beginner.
• n. (uncountable, grammar) A verb tense of the Hebrew language.

new

• adj. Recently made, or created.
• adj. Additional; recently discovered.
• adj. Current or later, as opposed to former.
• adj. Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously…
• adj. In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
• adj. Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
• adj. Newborn.
• adj. Of recent origin; having taken place recently.
• adj. Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
• adj. Recently arrived or appeared.
• adj. Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
• adj. (of a period of time) Next; about to begin or recently begun.
• adv. Newly (especially in composition).
• adv. As new; from scratch.
• n. Things that are new.
• n. (Australia) A kind of light beer.
• n. (in the plural) See news.
• v. (obsolete) To make new; to recreate; to renew.

other

• adj. See other (determiner) below.
• adj. second.
• adj. Alien.
• adj. Different.
• adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
• n. An other one, more often rendered as another.
• n. The other one; the second of two.
• adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
• adv. (obsolete) otherwise.
• v. (transitive) To make into an other.
• v. (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
• v. (transitive) (ethnicity or race) To label as "other".
• conj. (obsolete) Or.

past

• n. The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
• n. (grammar) The past tense.
• adj. Having already happened; in the past; finished.
• adj. (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
• adj. Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
• adj. (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
• adv. in a direction that passes.
• adv. Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
• prep. beyond in place, quantity or time.

precocious

• adj. Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.
• adj. Exhibiting advanced skills and aptitudes at an abnormally early age.

premature

• adj. Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived.
• adj. Taking place earlier than anticipated, prepared for, or desired.
• adj. (informal) Suffering from premature ejaculation.
• n. An infant born prematurely.

previous

• adj. Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.
• adj. (informal) Premature; acting or occurring too soon.
• n. (informal, Britain) An existing criminal record (short for "previous convictions"); loosely, a track record…

primaeval

• adj. Alternative spelling of primeval.

primal

• adj. Being the first in time, or history.
• adj. Being of greatest importance; primary.
• adj. (meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior…
• n. primal cut (of meat).

primeval

• adj. Belonging to the first ages.
• adj. Primary; original.
• adj. Primitive.

primitive

• n. (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
• n. A member of a primitive society.
• n. A simple-minded person.
• n. (computing, programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex…
• n. (computing, programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a…
• n. A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
• n. (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
• adj. Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
• adj. Crude, obsolete.
• adj. (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
• adj. (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
• adj. (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type.

primordial

• adj. first, earliest or original.
• adj. (biology) characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium.
• adj. primeval.
• n. A first principle or element.

proto

• adj. Prototypical; preceding the proper beginning of something.

rude

• adj. Bad-mannered.
• adj. Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
• adj. Tough, robust.
• adj. Undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
• adj. Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.

untimely

• adj. at an inopportune time.
• adj. early; premature.

wee

• adj. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) urine.
• n. (colloquial) An act of urination.
• v. (colloquial) To urinate.
• pron. obsolete emphatic of we.

young

• adj. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
• adj. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
• adj. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
• adj. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
• adj. (of a decade of life) Early.
• adj. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
• adj. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
• adj. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
• n. People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
• n. Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
• n. (rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
• v. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
• v. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
• v. (geology) To exhibit younging.