Thesaurus:former
English
Adjective
Sense: former; that was but is no more
Synonyms
- antecedent
- anterior
- earlier
- erstwhile
- ex
- foregone
- former
- old [⇒ thesaurus]
- olden
- past [⇒ thesaurus]
- preceding
- precedent
- previous
- prior
- quondam
- sometime [⇒ thesaurus]
- used-to-be
- whilom (archaic except literary)
Antonyms
Holonyms
Various
See also
Further reading
- “62. precedence” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “former” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.