before anything else

ADVERB

principally

Synonyms

STRONGEST

basically chiefly first and foremost generally importantly largely mostly notably particularly predominantly

STRONG

primarily

WEAK

above all cardinally dominantly eminently especially essentially first of all for the most part fundamentally in the first place in the main materially peculiarly preeminently prevailingly prevalently substantially superlatively supremely to a great degree universally vitally

Antonyms

WEAK

secondarily trivially

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before anything else

Watch: 'You have to defend your own national interest before anything else'

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

To make matters worse, it probably won't be until the 2040s before anything else we send there arrives.

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2024

We do everything we can right there, before anything else, to make sure that the patient is OK for now, and we don’t stop until they are as OK as we can make them.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2024

“You have to take care of your players before anything else whereas in college sport you don’t have to compensate your labor at a market rate.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

Now that he was finally in Igbo land, he wanted to see the home of the roped pot before anything else.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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