Word Type

Preposition

Noun

Adjective

Adjective

Verb

Adverb

Adverb

The word "past" can be used as preposition, noun, adjective, adjective, verb, adverb and adverb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

future future future present present to

Derived Terms

blast from the past in the past past anterior past continuous past historic past participle past perfect past progressive past simple past tense past the end of one's nose past-time pastless simple past thing of the past time past times past whistle past

Distinct From

future now present recent

Etymologically Related To

pass

Context

grammar postmodifier

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

period period of time tense time time period

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

ancient former obsolete old

Type Of (IsA)

history memory tense time time period

Part Of

life

Receives Action

fixed

Related Terms

a hair past a freckle blow past breeze past brush past by-past file past first past the post fly-past flypast forepast get past get past oneself ghost from one's past go past half past half-past-six let past live in the past look past look past the end of one's nose look past the tip of one's nose march past march-past non-past nonpast overpast past exonerative past historic tense past imperfect tense past it past iterative past life past master past mistress past one's prime past paper past participial past perfect continuous past perfect progressive past redemption past the tip of one's nose past time past-life past-master past-posting pastism pastist pastness pastward pastwards pea-time is past preterite push past put it past put one past put past reach past run past runpast sailpast sell past the close simple-past slip one past slip past smuggle past sneak past talk past the mill cannot grind with water that is past the past tick past unsorted whistle past the graveyard

Related Terms

ago already already happened backwards before before now before present beyond description future gone gone before gone time happened history long long ago long gone memories noncurrent now old old stuff outgoing over pass by past it past master past tense period present present future preterite previous previously remember run past slip one past sneak past stuff talk past then then ago time time ago time backwards time before time description time gone time period yesterday

Similar Terms

ago agone agone ancient ancient bygone bypast chivalric chivalric departed departed early erstwhile erstwhile foregone former former gone historic historical historical knightly last last late mediaeval medieval noncurrent nonmodern old olden olden one-time onetime other other outgoing prehistoric prehistorical prehistorical previous previous quondam recent recent sometime then then ult ultimo ultimo

Synonym Network

retiring

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