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sooner

adjectiveadverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsuːnə//
  • United States//ˈsunɚ//

rather.

adjective

  1. 1

    Also a form of sooncomparative form of soon: more soon

adverb

  1. 1

    rather.

    I would sooner die than marry you!

    Sooner than have a problem later, I made sure the policy was in order.

  2. 2

    Also a form of sooncomparative form of soon: more soon

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).