Home › Words › F › forelifeforelifeforelife means A former or previous life.EtymologyFrom Middle English forelyf, foorlyf, equivalent to fore- + life.nounA former or previous lifeEarly or primitive life; protozoae.g.“Because all they hoped to create was the lowest kind of life; in their own words, the protozoon, or forelife; whereas Babbage created the highest kind of life; as it should seem, the afterlife, [...]” — 1910, Allen Upward, The New Word:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.beforelife 76% match — An existence before the beginning of life. vs forelife →prelife 72% match — Before the start of life vs forelife →forelive 70% match — To live or come before; precede vs forelife →forebirth 67% match — That which precedes birth or is first-born vs forelife →predeath 66% match — prior to death vs forelife →premortal 65% match — Before the start of life. vs forelife →forebelief 65% match — A previous belief. vs forelife →postexistence 64% match — An afterlife; a subsequent existence. vs forelife →