Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
✝️ Before Christ's reign ⏳ Before a millennium
premillennial

premillennial

8.4
Happening before the year 2000
  • adjective
  • /ˌpriːmɪˈlɛn.i.əl/
translation icon : premilenial
  • The premillennial trends in fashion can still be seen in today's youth culture.

Examples

  • Many popular films from the 1990s capture the premillennial fears of global change.

  • But the first great album of the new millennium was born in the 1990s, and its muggy grooves capture the sound of premillennial anxiety.

    Blog text (17)

  • The art style of the city reflected a premillennial optimism about the future.

Synonyms

prior
vspremillennial
752 2.9

Happening before something else in time

is limited to happening before a specific millennium often before the year 2000

Antonyms

postmillennial
9.3

The time after a thousand-year period often talked about in history or religion

Surface Forms

premillennial positive
premillennially positive

Morphology

premillennial = millennial (transparent) = pre + millennium + al

The prefix 'pre-' straightforwardly adds the meaning 'before' to the adjective 'millennial'.

Etymology

The word premillennial comes from pre- meaning 'before' and millennium meaning 'a thousand years' or the start of a new thousand-year period like the year 2000. So, premillennial refers to things that happen before that thousand-year point, often used for events before the year 2000.