Synonyms for past
pæst, pɑstpast

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. past

   Synonyms:
   spent, gone by, elapsed, departed, late

   Antonyms:
   present, unspent

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. past, past times, yesteryearnoun

   the time that has elapsed

   "forget the past"

   Synonyms:
   past times, yesteryear, past tense

   Antonyms:
   hereafter, futurity, time to come, future, instant, prox, rising, inst, immediate, early, in store(p), existing, incoming, coming(a), emerging, present(a), future day, proximo, forthcoming, latter-day, upcoming, approaching

2. pastnoun

   a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)

   "reporters dug into the candidate's past"

   Synonyms:
   past times, yesteryear, past tense

   Antonyms:
   time to come, futurity, hereafter, future, existing, early, prox, present(a), future day, proximo, approaching, coming(a), emerging, latter-day, inst, in store(p), upcoming, rising, incoming, instant, forthcoming, immediate

3. past, past tenseadjective

   a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

   Synonyms:
   past times, yesteryear, past tense

   Antonyms:
   futurity, hereafter, future, time to come, present(a), incoming, future day, existing, forthcoming, inst, rising, approaching, early, prox, coming(a), latter-day, in store(p), instant, proximo, upcoming, immediate, emerging

4. pastadjective

   earlier than the present time; no longer current

   "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"

   Synonyms:
   past(a), preceding(a), retiring(a)

   Antonyms:
   hereafter, futurity, future, time to come, forthcoming, emerging, early, prox, coming(a), latter-day, immediate, existing, inst, proximo, rising, approaching, in store(p), incoming, future day, present(a), instant, upcoming

5. past(a), preceding(a), retiring(a)adverb

   of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office

   "a retiring member of the board"

   Antonyms:
   futurity, hereafter, future, time to come, instant, emerging, incoming, upcoming, in store(p), early, inst, latter-day, immediate, rising, present(a), approaching, coming(a), existing, prox, forthcoming, proximo, future day

6. by, pastadverb

   so as to pass a given point

   "every hour a train goes past"

   Synonyms:
   by, aside, away

   Antonyms:
   futurity, time to come, hereafter, future, early, upcoming, approaching, existing, forthcoming, proximo, future day, latter-day, incoming, prox, in store(p), inst, present(a), immediate, coming(a), emerging, rising, instant

Matched Categories

1. • Time Period

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. pastadjective

   Synonyms:
   spent, gone, ended, elapsed, gone by

2. pastnoun

   Synonyms:
   past time, time gone by

3. pastprep.

   Synonyms:
   beyond, out of the reach of

4. pastprep.

   Synonyms:
   after (in time)

5. pastadjective

   Synonyms:
   by

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pastadjective

   Synonyms:
   bygone, elapsed, preterite, preterit

2. pastnoun

   Associated words:
   preterist, preterition, pretermission, preteritive, preterit, aorist, aoristic, retrospect, retrospective, retrospection, antiquary, antiquity, antiquarian, quondam, antecedent, antecedence, antecedents

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "past":

   last, previous, recent, latest, spent, latter, former, earlier, elapsed, history, final, prior, preceding, passé, passed, old, historical

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1. Marcus Aelius Aurelius:

   Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

2. Beverly Sills:

   I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

3. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid:

   Guess they believe that the American people will forget about this vacancy. But they won't. Democrats are going to fight every day to ensure that this important nominee gets a dignified confirmation process that past Senates have afforded all Supreme Court nominations, pretending the nominee doesn't exist won't make the Supreme Court vacancy go away, it won't make the President's nomination vanish.

4. Cory Booker:

   I live in Newark, New Jersey, and the support of the Latino community in the past changed my life and helped me win the mayoral race, because I had Latino support, so my work in my political life has always been in conjunction with the Latino community.

5. Luke Pile:

   Everything has been so polarized this past year. I don't know that there is a single reason that individuals don't get the vaccine, in trying to educate people, personally and professionally, we talk about the history and science. Unfortunately, individual opinions don't always align with that.