Synonyms of the word

past

• n. The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
• n. (grammar) The past tense.
• adj. Having already happened; in the past; finished.
• adj. (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
• adj. Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
• adj. (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
• adv. in a direction that passes.
• adv. Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
• prep. beyond in place, quantity or time.

ago

• adj. (archaic or dialectal) Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.
• adj. (archaic or dialectal) Nearly gone; dead (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century).
• postp. Before now.

agone

• adv. Archaic form of ago.

ancient

• adj. Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age; very old.
• adj. Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity;…
• adj. (historical) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle…
• adj. (obsolete) Experienced; versed.
• adj. (obsolete) Former; sometime.
• n. A person who is very old.
• n. A person who lived in ancient times.
• n. (heraldry, archaic) A flag, banner, standard or ensign.
• n. (Britain, law) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
• n. (obsolete) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.

by

• prep. Near or next to.
• prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
• prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
• prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
• prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by…
• prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
• prep. Indicates a source of light: Medium emanating from hot sources.
• prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
• prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
• prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
• prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
• prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
• prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
• adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
• adv. In the vicinity, near.
• adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
• adv. Aside, away.
• adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
• n. (card games) A pass.
• interj. Alternative spelling of bye.

bygone

• adj. Having been or happened in the distant past.
• n. An event that happened in the past.

bypast

• adj. past.

chivalric

• adj. of, or relating to chivalry.
• adj. gallant and respectful, especially to women.

departed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of depart.
• adj. (euphemistic) dead.
• n. (euphemistic) A dead person or persons.

early

• adj. At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
• adj. Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
• adj. Near the start or beginning.
• adj. Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
• adv. At a time before expected; sooner than usual.
• adv. Soon; in good time; seasonably.
• n. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day.

erstwhile

• adv. Formerly; in the past.
• adj. (literary, law) Former, previous.
• adj. (proscribed) Respected, honourable.

foregone

• v. past participle of forego.
• adj. previous, former.
• adj. bygone.
• adj. (informal) inevitable, predictable.

former

• adj. Previous.
• adj. First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.
• n. Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.
• n. An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die.
• n. (chiefly Britain, used in combinations) Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).

gone

• v. past participle of go.
• adj. Away, having left.
• adj. (figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
• adj. No longer existing, having passed.
• adj. Used up.
• adj. Dead.
• adj. (colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings.
• adj. (colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
• adj. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
• prep. (Britain, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).

historic

• adj. Very important, very noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
• adj. Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.
• adj. (now uncommon) Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past…
• adj. (grammar) Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
• n. (obsolete) A history, a non-fiction account of the past.
• n. (obsolete) A historian.

historical

• adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and…
• adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
• adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
• adj. Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically".
• n. A historical romance.

knightly

• adj. Of or pertaining to a knight or knights.
• adj. Befitting a knight; formally courteous (as a knight); chivalrous, gallant and courtly.
• adv. In the manner of a knight; chivalrously.

last

• adj. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
• adj. Most recent, latest, last so far.
• adj. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
• adj. Being the only one remaining of its class.
• adj. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
• adj. Lowest in rank or degree.
• adv. Most recently.
• adv. (sequence) after everything else; finally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out.
• v. (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
• v. (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
• n. A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
• v. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
• n. (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
• n. (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
• n. (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
• n. A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.

late

• adj. Near the end of a period of time.
• adj. Specifically, near the end of the day.
• adj. (usually not used comparatively) Associated with the end of a period.
• adj. Not arriving until after an expected time.
• adj. Not having had an expected menstrual period.
• adj. (not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions…
• adj. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
• adj. Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
• n. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
• adv. After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.
• adv. formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.

medieval

• adj. Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from about 500 to about 1500.
• adj. Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages.
• n. Someone living in the Middle Ages.
• n. A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).

noncurrent

• adj. Not current.

old

• adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
• adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
• adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
• adj. (heading) Of an earlier time.
• adj. Tiresome.
• adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
• adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old,…
• adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
• n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.

olden

• adj. From or relating to a previous era.
• adj. (archaic) Old; ancient.
• v. (intransitive) To grow old; age; assume an older appearance or character; become affected by age.

onetime

• adj. (principally US) Former.
• adj. (principally US) For a single instance.

other

• adj. See other (determiner) below.
• adj. second.
• adj. Alien.
• adj. Different.
• adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
• n. An other one, more often rendered as another.
• n. The other one; the second of two.
• adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
• adv. (obsolete) otherwise.
• v. (transitive) To make into an other.
• v. (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
• v. (transitive) (ethnicity or race) To label as "other".
• conj. (obsolete) Or.

outgoing

• adj. Comfortable in social settings and interactions; confident in dealing with people especially in meeting…
• adj. (not comparable) Going out, on its way out.
• adj. (not comparable) Being replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined that…
• n. The act of leaving or going out; exit, departure.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Money that leaves one's possession; expenditure, outlay, expense.
• n. The extreme limit; the place of ending.
• v. present participle of outgo.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

preceding

• adj. Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
• v. present participle of precede.

prehistoric

• adj. Of relating to the epoch before written record.
• adj. Nonmodern.

prehistorical

• adj. prehistoric.

previous

• adj. Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.
• adj. (informal) Premature; acting or occurring too soon.
• n. (informal, Britain) An existing criminal record (short for "previous convictions"); loosely, a track record…

quondam

• adj. Former; once; at one time.

recent

• adj. Having happened a short while ago.
• adj. Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
• adj. Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
• adj. In long-view scientific usage, particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy, may refer to events…
• adj. In geology and and astronomy, "Recent", capitalised, has often been used as an exact synonym for "Holocene",…

retiring

• adj. Shy, introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.
• adj. About to retire from work.
• v. present participle of retire.
• n. retirement.

sometime

• adv. At an unstated or indefinite time in the future.
• adv. (obsolete) Sometimes.
• adv. (obsolete) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.
• adj. Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
• adj. Occasional.

tense

• n. (grammar, countable) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs…
• n. (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
• n. (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of…
• v. (grammar, transitive) To apply a tense to.
• adj. Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
• adj. Pulled taut, without any slack.
• v. To make or become tense.

then

• adv. (temporal location) At that time.
• adv. (temporal location) Soon afterward.
• adv. (sequence) Next in order; in addition.
• adv. (conjunctive) In that case.
• adv. (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand.
• adv. (obsolete) At the time that; when.
• adv. (Britain, dialect, affirmation) Used to contradict an assertion.
• adj. Being so at that time.
• n. That time.
• conj. Obsolete spelling of than.

time

• n. (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
• n. A duration of time.
• n. An instant of time.
• n. (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
• n. (countable) Ratio of comparison.
• n. (grammar, dated) Tense.
• n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
• v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
• v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
• v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
• v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
• v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
• v. To measure, as in music or harmony.
• interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.

ult

• n. The final (ultimate) syllable of a word or other utterance.

ultimo

• adj. (obsolete) On the last day (of a specified month).
• adv. Of last month.
• n. (obsolete, rare) = ultimum.

yesteryear

• n. (poetic) Past years; time gone by; yore.
• n. (rare) Last year.

yore

• n. (poetic) time long past.
• adv. (obsolete) In time long past; long ago.