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yester day
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the day before today |
| Synonyms: | bygone, foretime, lang syne, last day, not long ago, past, recently, the other day |
| Antonyms: | tomorrow |
| Main Entry: | passé |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned |
| Synonyms: | antiquated, belated, dated, dead, disused, démodé, extinct, has-been, obsolete, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, superseded, unfashionable, yesterday |
| Antonyms: | current, fashionable, in, in vogue, modern, new |
| Main Entry: | past |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time gone by |
| Synonyms: | antiquity, days gone by, former times, good old days, history, long ago, old lang syne, old times, olden days, time immemorial, times past, years ago, yesterday, yesteryear, yore |
| Antonyms: | future, present |
| Main Entry: | good old days |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | times of old considered better than present |
| Synonyms: | days of old, good old times, horse and buggy days, olden days, olden times, past, times of yore, yesterday, yesteryear |
| Main Entry: | water under the bridge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | things forgotten about |
| Synonyms: | bygones, days gone by, past, times past, yesterday |
| Main Entry: | stale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overused, out-of-date |
| Synonyms: | antiquated, banal, bent, cliché, cliché-ridden, clichéd, common, commonplace, corny*, dead, drab, dull, dusty, effete, flat, fusty, hackneyed, insipid, like a dinosaur, mawkish, moth-eaten, out*, passé, past, platitudinous, repetitious, shopworn, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn, worn-out, yesterday's, zestless |
| Antonyms: | current, fresh, new, underused |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | past |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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ancestral, archaeological, blown over, bygone, cidevant, elapsed, expired, exploded, extinct, foregoing, foregone, forgotten, former, gone, gone by, hesternal, irrecoverable, lapsed, last, late, latter, looking back, never to return, no more, nudiustertian, obsolete, over, overnight, passed away, past, preterite, preteritial, preterlapsed, preterperfect, preterpluperfect, pridian, pristine, quondam, recent, retroactive, retrospective, run out, sometime, that has been, thenadays, whilom, yestern
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