Antonyms for earliestear·li·est

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1. earlier, earliestadverb

   (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"

   Antonyms:
   middle, late

   Synonyms:
   earlier

2. soonest, earliestadverb

   with the least delay

   "the soonest I can arrive is 3 P.M."

   Antonyms:
   middle, late

   Synonyms:
   soonest

How to use earliest in a sentence?

1. Julia Farley:

   This unique find is of international importance. It dates to around 400–250 BC, and is probably the earliest Iron Age gold work ever discovered in Britain, the torcs were probably worn by wealthy and powerful women, perhaps people from the continent who had married into the local community. Piecing together how these objects came to be carefully buried in a Staffordshire field will give us an invaluable insight into life in Iron Age Britain.

2. David Anderegg:

   There's a huge difference ... babies can tell right away, kids start from the earliest infancy being able to read the signals about whether or not the adults around them feel safe.

3. Stephanie Melillo:

   Until now, we had a big gap between the earliest-known human ancestors, which are about six million years old, and species like' Lucy,' which are two to three million years old. One of the most exciting aspects of this discovery is how it bridges the morphological space between these two groups.

4. Sanjay Guptas:

   In a study out of China where they looked at some of the earliest patients, some 200 patients, they found that digestive or stomach GI (gastrointestinal) symptoms were actually there in about half the patients.

5. Scott Weaver:

   The mouse will mainly be used to do the very earliest testing of vaccines or drugs where the mechanism of disease doesn't have to be a perfect model to what happens in humans.

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