Synonyms for past

noun

  1. Past time

    antiquity, long ago, past times, old times, years ago, good old days, good old times, ancient times, former times, days gone by, auld lang syne, yore, days of old, days of yore, yesterday.

    Antonyms future*, the present, tomorrow.

  2. Past events

    knowledge, happenings, events; see history.

  3. Concealed experiences

    secret affair, love affair, amour, hidden past, bronzed past, scarlet past, scarlet letter, scarlet A.

through, farther than, behind; see beyond.

modified

  1. Having occurred previously

    former, preceding, gone by, foregoing, elapsed, anterior, antecedent, prior.

  2. No longer serving

    ex-, retired, earlier; see preceding.

not put it past someone

See past in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


adjective
  1. Just gone by or elapsed:

    antecedent, anterior, earlier, foregoing, former, precedent, preceding, previous, prior. See time
  2. Having been such previously:

    erstwhile, former, late, old, once, onetime, previous, quondam, sometime, whilom. See precede
noun
  1. Past events surrounding a person or thing:

    background, history. See happen
  2. A former period of time or of one's life:

    yesterday, yesteryear, yore. Idioms: bygone days, days gone by, the good old days, the old days. See time

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