previously

/ˈpriviɪsli/

/ˈpriviəsli/

The adverb previously is good for talking about something that happened in the past. If you've read a novel previously, you might just skim it before your book group meets to discuss it.

When you talk about things that happened before, whether recently or in the distant past, the word previously can be helpful. You could mention at a job interview that before your current job, you were previously employed as a flight attendant, or tell a date that though you're single now, you were previously married to a famous movie star. Previously comes from the adjective previous, with its Latin root praevius, "going before," from prae, "before," and via, "road."

Definitions of previously

1. adverb

   at an earlier time or formerly
   “she had previously lived in Chicago”

   “he was previously president of a bank”

   “better than anything previously proposed”

   “a previously unquestioned attitude”

   synonyms: antecedently