Word Meanings - EARLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EARLY)
- Betimes
- Early
- beforehand
- preparedly
- readily
- Juvenile
- Youthful
- young
- infantine
- boyish
- girlish
- early
- immature
- adolescent
- pubescent
- childish
- puerile
- Matutinal
- morning
- waking
- dawning
- Premature
- Hasty
- crude
- unauthenticated
- untimely
- precocious
- precipitate
- too early
- rash
- unseasonable
- Punctual
- Exact
- prompt
- timely
Related words: (words related to EARLY)
- YOUNGISH
Somewhat young. Tatler. - PRECIPITATELY
In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift. - WAKETIME
Time during which one is awake. Mrs. Browning. - PROMPT-BOOK
The book used by a prompter of a theater. - WAKE-ROBIN
Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint . Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit. - CHILDISHNESS
The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect. - ADOLESCENT
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See - YOUNGLY
Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak. - EXACTOR
One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor. - EXACTING
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n. - YOUNG
, , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of - READILY
1. In a ready manner; quickly; promptly. Chaucer. 2. Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully. How readily we wish time spent revoked! Cowper. - EXACTLY
In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft. - YOUNGTH
Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser. - EARLY
Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson. - CHILDISH
1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who - PROMPTLY
In a prompt manner. - EXACTION
1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my - MORNE
Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. "White as morne milk." Chaucer. - PUNCTUALNESS
Punctuality; exactness. - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - BETIME; BETIMES
1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes - CLEARLY
In a clear manner. - INEXACT
Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate. - LATEWAKE
See LICH - HALF-YEARLY
Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.