Previous

Adjective

 * 1) prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.
 * He is no better than the previous Prime Minister.
 * 1)  premature; occurring too soon.
 * I thought that I had solved the problem, but I was a bit previous.

Synonyms

 * former
 * late
 * old
 * See also Thesaurus:former

Antonyms

 * succeeding
 * future

Noun

 * 1)  An existing criminal record
 * It turned out the shoplifter had a lot of previous.

Thesaurus
a bit previous, above, advanced, aforementioned, aforesaid, ahead, ancient, ante, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, before, beforehand, ci-devant, earlier, early, elder, erstwhile, far ahead, first, fore, foregoing, former, forward, half-baked, half-cocked, hasty, ill-considered, immemorial, impulsive, in advance, late, not firm, old, olden, older, once, onetime, overhasty, oversoon, past, precedent, preceding, precipitate, precocious, precurrent, preexistent, prehistoric, premature, previous to, prime, primeval, primitive, prior, prior to, quondam, recent, rushed, senior, sometime, soon, then, too early, too soon, uncrystallized, unjelled, unmatured, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unprepared, unripe, untimely, whilom

Alternative forms

 * prævious

Adjective

 * Arabic: سابق
 * Catalan: previ, anterior
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 以前
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German: vorhergehend
 * Hindi: पिछला
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 前
 * Korean: 이전
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Lithuanian: ankstesnis
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: førre, føregåande
 * Persian: پیشین
 * Polish: poprzedni, ubiegły
 * Portuguese: prévio
 * Russian: предыдущий, прошлый
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Welsh: blaenorol


 * Dutch:
 * Persian: نابه هنگام


 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * pervious
 * viperous