Definition of already

"already" in the adverb sense

1. already

prior to a specified or implied time

"she has already graduated"

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Quotations for already

Do not do what is already done. [ Terence ]

But how many moments are already past!
Ah! who thinks of those that are past? [ Lessing ]

Do not insult calamity:
It is a barbarous grossness to lay on
The weight of scorn, where heavy misery
Too much already weighs men's fortunes down. [ Daniel ]

So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in today already walks tomorrow. [ Coleridge ]

The unfortunate who prays is already consoled. [ Millevoye ]

Thou need'st not answer; thy confession speaks,
Already reddening in thy guilty cheeks. [ Byron ]

He is not born yet, and does he sneeze already? [ Proverb ]

You are a fool; you do what has been done already. [ Plaut ]

He who fears death has already lost the life be covets. [ Cato ]

Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land. [ Samuel Bowles ]

Our spit is not yet at the fire, and you are got a basting already. [ Proverb ]

Ah! perhaps while we are hoping, mischief has already overtaken us. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind. [ Amiel ]

A person with a bad name is already half hanged, saith the old proverb. [ Whipple ]

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. [ Confucius ]

Whoever blushes is already guilty: true innocence is ashamed of nothing. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Evil is like the nightmare, the instant you bestir yourself it has already ended. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth His moral law. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

Most people who ask advice of others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. [ Knigge ]

Every evil deed already bears its own avenging angel, the dread of evil, in the heart of it. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on! [ Channing ]

I am young; I have passed but the half of the road of life, and, already weary, I turn and look back! [ A. de Musset ]

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The daffodil is our door-side queen; she pushes up the sward already, to spot with sunshine the early green. [ Bryant ]

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it. [ Haliburton ]

Seek knowledge, as if thou wert to be here for ever; virtue, as if death already held thee by the bristling hair. [ Herder ]

To please, one must make up his mind to be taught many things which he already knows, by people who do not know them. [ Chamfort ]

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. [ Simms ]

By cultivating the beautiful, we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers; by doing good, we foster those already belonging to humanity. [ Howard ]

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action. [ Hare ]

He who has done the best he can, has a right to be as happy in the hope of ultimate triumph as though he was already enthroned amidst that triumph. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess. [ Zimmermann ]

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself. [ C. Kingsley ]

All the makers of dictionaries, all the compilers of opinions already printed, we may term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. [ Voltaire ]

Earth has one angel less, and heaven one more since yesterday. Already, kneeling at the throne, she has received her welcome, and is resting on the bosom of her Saviour. [ Hawthorne ]

God never pardons: the laws of His universe are irrevocable. God always pardons: sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life. [ William Smith ]

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, - as though that time should be of another make from this, which has already come and is ours. [ Fuller ]

A misanthrope was told of a young friend of his: Your friend has no experience of the world; he knows nothing about it. True; but he is already as sad as if he knew all about it.

Man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie enfolded already in the first man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Plutarch would rather we should applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge, and would rather leave us with an appetite to read more than glutted with that we have already read. [ Montaigne ]

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man - the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired. [ Fielding ]

What real good does an addition to a fortune, already sufficient, procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement. [ Goldsmith ]

Food, improperly taken, not only produces originnl diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may. In temperance is certainly its mother. [ Burton ]

If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

All the makers of dictionaries, all compilers who do nothing else than repeat backwards and forwards the opinions, the errors, the impostures, and the truths already printed, we may term plagiarists: but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. [ Voltaire ]

There are few thoughts likely to come across ordinary men which have not already been expressed by greater men in the best possible way; and it is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world. [ John Ruskin ]

already in Scrabble®

The word already is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters already:

ALREADY
(95 = 45 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

already

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word already

ALREADY
(95 = 45 + 50)
ALREADY
(94 = 44 + 50)
ALREADY
(89 = 39 + 50)
ALREADY
(86 = 36 + 50)
ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
(67 = 17 + 50)
ALREADY
(66 = 16 + 50)
ALREADY
(65 = 15 + 50)
ALREADY
(64 = 14 + 50)
ALREADY
(64 = 14 + 50)
ALREADY
(63 = 13 + 50)
ALREADY
(63 = 13 + 50)
ALREADY
(63 = 13 + 50)
ALREADY
(63 = 13 + 50)
ALREADY
(62 = 12 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In already

ALREADY
(95 = 45 + 50)
ALREADY
(94 = 44 + 50)
ALREADY
(89 = 39 + 50)
ALREADY
(86 = 36 + 50)
ALREADY
(86 = 36 + 50)
ALREADY
(86 = 36 + 50)
ALREADY
(86 = 36 + 50)
ALREADY
(86 = 36 + 50)
ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
(82 = 32 + 50)
ALREADY
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ALREADY
(80 = 30 + 50)
ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
(76 = 26 + 50)
ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
(67 = 17 + 50)
ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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already in Words With Friends™

The word already is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters already:

ALREADY
(92 = 57 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

already

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word already

ALREADY
(92 = 57 + 35)
ALREADY
(86 = 51 + 35)
ALREADY
(86 = 51 + 35)
ALREADY
(86 = 51 + 35)
ALREADY
(80 = 45 + 35)
ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
(47 = 12 + 35)
ALREADY
(47 = 12 + 35)
ALREADY
(47 = 12 + 35)
ALREADY
(46 = 11 + 35)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In already

ALREADY
(92 = 57 + 35)
ALREADY
(86 = 51 + 35)
ALREADY
(86 = 51 + 35)
ALREADY
(86 = 51 + 35)
ALREADY
(80 = 45 + 35)
ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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DEARLY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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AREADY
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ALREADY
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ALREADY
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DEARLY
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Words within the letters of already

2 letter words in already (9 words)

3 letter words in already (19 words)

6 letter words in already (2 words)

7 letter words in already (1 word)

already + 1 blank (4 words)

already + 2 blanks (4 words)

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