adverb
definition
Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
definition
So soon.
example
Are you quitting already?
Examples of already in a Sentence
We have already seen this method work.
You're already at the top of your class.
This was a decision she had already made once - but not really.
Hadn't she already forgotten?
What are you going to hide from me that I haven't already seen?
I already have a son and daughter.
If you already have a large amount of productivity, technology will amplify it.
I've already told her, but she won't listen to me either.
It is already the official language in more than fifty countries spread across every continent.
When she reached Destiny's room, Jonathan was already dressed and was helping Destiny.
You just have to act like you already know it.
We have seen this happen already, and it will get substantially better in the near future.
I have already dispatched mine.
I've already discussed my plans with Mom, and she's going to watch Tammy.
Anna Pavlovna had already managed to speak to Lise about the match she contemplated between Anatole and the little princess' sister-in-law.
She wasn't telling him anything he didn't already know.
It was already late when he rose after sealing the letter.
Alex had promised the foal to Jonathan and he had already named it Eureka.
Okay, we've already established that Alex is secretive.
They had two adopted children already.
I've already made up my mind.
The whole forest was already clothed in green.
I think we already are.
We've already established that I'm not an heir.
We are already well on our way.
Almost everyone else had already left, so Katie and Mary volunteered to help.
As if Destiny had not been through enough already, she was forced to stay inside the tent.
His day had already been disrupted enough.
More than half the ladies already had partners and were taking up, or preparing to take up, their positions for the polonaise.
You already know that.
Other than the fact that she and Howard had already disrupted their lives enough for her, it was comforting to have her there.
As soon as he trotted out upon the surface of the river he found himself safe from pursuit, and Zeb was already running across the water toward Dorothy.
Perhaps on that spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden Walden Pond was already in existence, and even then breaking up in a gentle spring rain accompanied with mist and a southerly wind, and covered with myriads of ducks and geese, which had not heard of the fall, when still such pure lakes sufficed them.
But already a change is taking place, owing, not to an increased humanity, but to an increased scarcity of game, for perhaps the hunter is the greatest friend of the animals hunted, not excepting the Humane Society.
From there the French could already be seen.
You've already been talking it over!
At dinner that day, on Dessalles' mentioning that the French were said to have already entered Vitebsk, the old prince remembered his son's letter.
A woman your age ought to be looking for a husband – or already married, not chasing all over creation in pants, trying to act like a man.
She wanted to ask him to slow down, but she was already holding him back.
Now my expectations have changed so much that I'm annoyed everything isn't already connected to the Internet.
I already have the seventh and eighth books of the "Aeneid" and one book of the "Iliad," all of which is most fortunate, as I have come almost to the end of my embossed text-books.
Usually we take one of the little "Readers" up in a big tree near the house and spend an hour or two finding the words Helen already knows.
The old man was already sitting barefoot.
I have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to.
Petya was a big handsome boy of thirteen, merry, witty, and mischievous, with a voice that was already breaking.
A single report of a signaling gun followed, and the troops, who were already spread out on different sides of Moscow, moved into the city through Tver, Kaluga, and Dorogomilov gates.
Talking about it might help her, but they had already talked the subject lifeless.
Besides, I've spent enough of his money on it already.
I have enough on my plate already.
They didn't say anything he didn't already know.