Synonyms of word past

  • completed
  • former
  • previous
  • prior
  • spent
  • antecedent
  • anterior
  • over
  • precedent
  • accomplished
  • ago
  • elapsed
  • ended
  • extinct
  • finished
  • foregoing
  • forgotten
  • gone
  • gone-by
  • over and done
  • earlier
  • early
  • late
  • old
  • preceding
  • previous
  • prior
  • recent
  • ancient
  • bygone
  • latter
  • over
  • ages ago
  • ancient history
  • back when
  • behind one
  • bypast
  • down memory lane
  • erstwhile
  • ex-
  • foregoing
  • gone-by
  • good old days
  • latter-day
  • long-ago
  • olden days
  • once
  • one-time
  • quondam
  • retired
  • sometime
  • time was
  • way back
  • way back when
  • history
  • antiquity
  • yesterday
  • yesteryear
  • yore
  • days gone by
  • former times
  • good old days
  • long ago
  • olden days
  • old lang syne
  • old times
  • time immemorial
  • times past
  • years ago

On this page you’ll find 132 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to past, such as: completed, former, previous, prior, spent, and antecedent.

  • after
  • current
  • future
  • later
  • on time
  • modern
  • new
  • present
  • future
  • present

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WORDS RELATED TO PAST

  • affiliated
  • born with
  • congenital
  • consanguine
  • consanguineous
  • familial
  • genealogical
  • in the family
  • inborn
  • inbred
  • inherited
  • innate
  • lineal
  • maternal
  • old
  • past
  • paternal
  • running in the family
  • totemic
  • tribal
  • anterior
  • earlier
  • foregoing
  • former
  • past
  • precedent
  • preceding
  • precursory
  • preliminary
  • previous
  • antecedent
  • foregoing
  • former
  • past
  • precedent
  • preceding
  • previous
  • delayed
  • elapsed
  • former
  • overdue
  • past
  • previous
  • afore
  • aforetime
  • ahead
  • ante
  • antecedently
  • anteriorly
  • back
  • before present
  • ere
  • fore
  • former
  • formerly
  • forward
  • heretofore
  • in advance
  • in days of yore
  • in front
  • in the old days
  • in the past
  • past
  • precendently
  • previous
  • previously
  • since
  • sooner
  • up to now
  • above
  • after
  • ahead
  • apart from
  • as well as
  • at a distance
  • away from
  • before
  • behind
  • besides
  • beyond the bounds
  • clear of
  • farther
  • free of
  • good way off
  • hyper
  • in addition to
  • in advance of
  • long way off
  • more remote
  • moreover
  • on the far side
  • on the other side
  • out of range
  • out of reach
  • outside
  • over
  • over and above
  • over there
  • past
  • remote
  • superior to
  • without
  • yonder

Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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  • ancient times, former times

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as in history

the events or experience of former times

we spent a pleasant evening recalling the past together


as in old

having been such at some previous time

a past editor of the newspaper


1

as in over

on or to the farther side of

I drive past the school every day


2

as in after

subsequent to in time or order

it’s ten minutes past six o’clock


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