- 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
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as in over
on or to the farther side of
I drive past the school every day
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as in after
subsequent to in time or order
it’s ten minutes past six o’clock
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