Word.ws English Dictionary

beforely

beforely adverb: previously.

Adverb

beforely (comparative more beforely, superlative most beforely)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Previously.
    • [...] his last words, because then he bent down by the fire to pick up a log to thump me with, and He exploded. Shame, huh? (In a way.) That is when the chimney fell over. It is lying in the garden now. Yours sorry about not mentioning it beforely, [...]1999, Ian Whybrow, Little Wolf's Book of Badness
    • Otto I have in the several occasion this question answered, both beforely and afterly.2002, Huzir Sulaiman, Eight Plays

Antonyms of beforely

  • afterly

Forms of beforely

comparativemore beforely
superlativemost beforely

Origin of beforely

From before + -ly.

Questions about beforely

What does beforely mean?
Beforely means previously.
What part of speech is beforely?
Beforely is an adverb.

Words near beforely in the dictionary

  1. beforehand
  2. beforehand in the world
  3. beforehand with the world
  4. beforelife
  5. beforelives
  6. beforely
  7. beforemath
  8. beforemaths
  9. beforementioned
  10. beforenamed
  11. beforeness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beforely (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “beforely.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/beforely. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.