All earliest synonyms
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E e adjective earliest
- first — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
- initial — of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning; first: the initial step in a process.
- primaeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
adj earliest
- archetypal — Someone or something that is archetypal has all the most important characteristics of a particular kind of person or thing and is a perfect example of it.
- original — belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
- primal — first; original; primeval: primal eras before the appearance of life on earth.
- primeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- primitive — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.