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
Hyponyms
Various
See also
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.