aforementioned.

Already mentioned earlier in the same discussion or document.

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Words that belong together

• the aforementioned study
• the aforementioned conditions

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The aforementioned study did not include participants under eighteen.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Writing functions: reference, explanation. Commonness: moderately common. Established lexical adjective, not counted as an ordinary form of a separately added verb.