early (n.)
early (adv.)
early (adj.)
- advanced
- ahead
- anachronistic
- ancient
- antecedent
- antediluvian
- anterior
- anticipative
- anticipatory
- antiquated
- antique
- back
- backward
- beforehand
- beginning
- behindhand
- dated
- earlier
- elder
- ere
- erstwhile
- first
- fore
- foregoing
- forehand
- forehanded
- foresighted
- former
- immemorial
- inappropriate
- initial
- inopportune
- late
- old
- olden
- older
- onetime
- original
- overdue
- past
- preceding
- precipitant
- precocious
- preexistent
- prehistoric
- premature
- prevenient
- previous
- primal
- prime
- primeval
- primitive
- primordial
- prior
- pristine
- quondam
- recent
- retroactive
- retrospective
- senior
- sometime
- tardy
- then
- timely
- unanticipated
- unexpected
- unpunctual
- unseasonable
- untimely
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.
Heaven gives its favourites—early death.
All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that thy seasons bring, O Nature. All things come of thee, have their being in thee, and return to thee.
Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man
Commands all light, all influence, all fate.
Nothing to him falls early, or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Fair daffadills, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early rising sun
Has not attained his noon.
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Early to bed and early to rise,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
A love that took an early root,
And had an early doom.
