Thesaurus:formerly

Thesaurus

formerly

English

Adverb

Sense: at an earlier time

Synonyms

• afore (archaic, dialectal)
• aforehand (archaic, dialectal)
• already
• antecedently
• at one time
• before
• beforehand
• beforetime (archaic)
• ere (obsolete)
• erenow (archaic)
• erewhile (archaic, poetic)
• erstwhile
• erstwhiles
• foretime
• formerly
• in advance
• in the past
• late    [⇒ thesaurus]
• once    [⇒ thesaurus]
• precedently
• previously
• sometime    [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
• sometimes (obsolete)
• therebefore
• while (obsolete)
• whilere (archaic)
• whilom (archaic except literary)
• yestertide
• yestertime
• yet

Antonyms

• currently    [⇒ thesaurus]
• subsequently    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• recently    [⇒ thesaurus]
• long ago    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• hitherto    [⇒ thesaurus]
• one day    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• ereyesterday
• last night
• the night before last
• yester (archaic)
• yesterday
• yestern
• yestereve
• yesterevening
• yesternight
• yestersol
• yesteryear

Various

• in advance
• since    [⇒ thesaurus]
• theretofore

See also

• Thesaurus:former

Further reading

• “116. priority” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “62. precedence” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “formerly” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.