early
adjectives
at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
"early morning"; "an early warning"; "early diagnosis"; "an early death"; "took early retirement"; "an early spring"; "early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties"
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having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
"aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"
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being ahead of time or need
"gave advance warning"; "was beforehand with her report"
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of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon
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of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era
"archeozoic life forms"
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(comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early
"a fashion popular in earlier times"; "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"; "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"
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uncommonly early or before the expected time
"illness led to his premature death"; "alcohol brought him to an untimely end"
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too soon or too hasty
"our condemnation of him was a bit previous"; "a premature judgment"
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formed in the later of two divisions of the Precambrian era
"proterozoic life forms"
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indicating the first or earliest or original
"`proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages"
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preceding all others in time or space or degree
"the first house on the right"; "the first day of spring"; "his first political race"; "her first baby"; "the first time"; "the first meetings of the new party"; "the first phase of his training"
being or occurring at an early stage of development
"in an early stage"; "early forms of life"; "early man"; "an early computer"
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little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
"archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
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(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
"new potatoes"; "young corn"
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belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
"the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
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in an early stage of development
"the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"
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only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
"incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"
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appearing or developing early
"precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias"
belonging to the distant past
"the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times"
very young
"at an early age"
of an early stage in the development of a language or literature
"the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C."; "Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700"
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of a very early stage in development
"Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"
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