early
/ˈɜrli/
adverb
- Before the usual or expected time.
- The store closes early on Sundays.
- She finished her homework early so she could go out.
- He arrived early to help set up the chairs.
- Near the beginning of a particular time or period.
- Early in his career, he worked as a waiter.
- Early in the morning, the birds start singing.
- The project failed early due to lack of funding.
Antonyms
adjective
- Happening or done before the usual or expected time.
- She is always early for meetings.
- The early bird gets the worm.
- We caught an early flight to avoid traffic.
- Near the beginning of a period of time, process, or sequence.
- The early chapters of the book are the most exciting.
- In the early days of the internet, connections were very slow.
- The early symptoms of the disease include a mild fever.
- Belonging to a remote or primitive period in history or development.
- The early settlers built log cabins.
- Early forms of writing included pictograms.
- Early humans used simple stone tools.
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