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Antonyms for former
ˈfɔr mərfor·mer

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Wiktionary2.0 / 3 votes

  1. formeradjective

    Antonyms:
    latter

  2. formeradjective

    previous

    Dave was the former of the company.

    Antonyms:
    latter

    Synonyms:
    quondam, erstwhile, anterior, ex-, previous, prior

  3. formeradjective

    first of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.

    The former is a good idea but the latter is not.

    Synonyms:
    anterior, erstwhile, ex-, quondam, previous, prior

    Antonyms:
    latter

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. former

    The efficient cause, that which makes anything to be or be done, is the common meaning of the word, as in the saying "There is no effect without a cause." Every man instinctively recognizes himself acting through will as the cause of his own actions. The Creator is the Great First Cause of all things. A condition is something that necessarily precedes a result, but does not produce it. An antecedent simply precedes a result, with or without any agency in producing it; as, Monday is the invariable antecedent of Tuesday, but not the cause of it. The direct antonym of cause is effect, while that of antecedent is consequent. An occasion is some event which brings a cause into action at a particular moment; gravitation and heat are the causes of an avalanche; the steep incline of the mountain-side is a necessary condition, and the shout of the traveler may be the occasion of its fall. Causality is the doctrine or principle of causes, causation the action or working of causes. Compare DESIGN; REASON.

    Antonyms:
    consequence, creation, development, effect, end, end, event, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, product, result

    Synonyms:
    actor, agent, antecedent, author, causality, causation, cause, condition, creator, designer, fountain, motive, occasion, origin, originator, power, precedent, reason, reason, source, spring

    Preposition:
    The cause of the disaster; cause for interference.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. former

    Antonyms:
    succeeding, subsequent, posterior, latter, modern, coming, future

    Synonyms:
    preceding, antecedent, previous, prior, earlier, ancient, bygone, anterior, first-mentioned, foregoing

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. formeradjective

    the first of two or the first mentioned of two

    "Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the former is remembered today"

    Antonyms:
    latter, present(a), future

  2. former(a)adjective

    referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several)

    "the novel was made into a film in 1943 and again in 1967; I prefer the former version to the latter one"

    Antonyms:
    latter, future, present(a)

  3. erstwhile(a), former(a), old, onetime(a), one-time(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)adjective

    belonging to some prior time

    "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"

    Antonyms:
    latter, present(a), future

  4. former(a), late(a), previous(a)adjective

    (used especially of persons) of the immediate past

    "the former president"; "our late President is still very active"; "the previous occupant of the White House"

    Antonyms:
    latter, future, present(a)

  5. early(a), former(a), other(a)adjective

    belonging to the distant past

    "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times"

    Antonyms:
    latter, present(a), future

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. formeradjective

    Synonyms:
    antecedent, preceding, previous, prior, foregoing, bygone, quondam, ci-devant

How to use former in a sentence?

  1. Chris Christie:

    This President and his former secretary of state are for paying ransom for hostages, when you do that, you endanger even more Americans around the world to be the subject of this type of hostage taking and illegal detention.

  2. Representative Khanna:

    Renato was a law school roommate of mine and he knows everything about these hearings, i spent a good amount of time talking to him. He's a former prosecutor and so he said, speak less, ask more questions, speak slowly, don't give a long preamble, don't be a politician.

  3. Richard Willis:

    The depth to which these acts occurred shocked and outraged us. Our students and their families deserve more, and we have committed our full attention to improving our processes, establishing accountability and ensuring appropriate actions are taken to support former, current and future students.

  4. Saul Anuzis:

    To me she was a novelty because the idea of having someone who was promoting gun rights in the former Soviet Union under Putin was kind of an interesting thing, that was kind of her badge that she carried around and what everyone was interested in.

  5. Eric Swalwell:

    I think we should hear from him in the public and that we should get to the bottom of just exactly why was he working with Russia Today, as a former Defense Intelligence Agency director, he of all people knows that agency is connected to Russia's intelligence services and so to take money from them and to work with Russian ambassador after sanctions were put on Russia and to lie to the vice president, that's powerful evidence that he knew what was going on and this was converging at the time of Russia's interference campaign.

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