not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; today isn't any other day- the White Queen; the construction of highways and other public works; he asked for other employment; any other person would tell the truth; his other books are still in storage; then we looked at the other house; hearing was good in his other ear; the other sex; she lived on the other side of the street from me; went in the other direction'

recently past; the other evening'

belonging to the distant past; the early inhabitants of Europe; former generations; in other times

[ Syn: early , former ]

very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected; a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail- Lance Morrow