previous is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
pretty - previous - price


Previous is on the Academic Vocabulary List.

Pronunciation change

Adjective change

Positive
previous

Comparative
none

Superlative
none

previous is on the Academic Word List.
  1. If something happened at a previous time, it happened before a particular time.
    Last year, we lived in Seoul, but the previous year we were in Moscow.

Preposition change

Preposition
previous

  1. (sometimes after the noun) You use previous to refer to a time before something else.
    The history of this site previous to the seventeenth century is unknown.
    Four years previous, he had been sick for a month.