Former: alternatives and connections

Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early.

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Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.

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Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.

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Open country.

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Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).

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Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness.

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Having been formerly; former; sometime.

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At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.