WHILOM Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

whilom

adjective

Definition of whilom

as in former

having been such at some previous time pointedly ignored the whilom friends who had turned on her

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Around the halfway point of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Petya Trofimov — eternal grad student, moral purist, and former tutor to the once wealthy family whose diminution sits at the heart of the play — makes a speech.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Contour Circuits, founded by Secor and former graduate student Jeremy Rurup, received a $150,000 Small Business Technology Transfer contract to advance the technology.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of former

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Kimmel then asked about CBS and whether anyone from the network congratulated their erstwhile star Colbert for the Emmy wins.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
But some of Jentleson’s erstwhile allies on the left are less sanguine about his project.

— Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of erstwhile

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In other cases, Virginia prosecutors have previously brought their own expert witnesses to counter an insanity defense at trials or even disputed the claims without their own expert, according to reports and court records.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2026
Even though the analysis adjusted for several potential confounding factors, other unmeasured factors could still contribute to the observed relationship.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026

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