On this page you'll find 167 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to in the past, such as: closed, concluded, decided, ended, full, and realized. From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Let’s look at some examples of English words with different meanings in the past, and compare their meanings in the past to the present day. unfriend (n): This word originally referred to an enemy. This is very different from today’s use as a verb, related to removing someone as a friend from a social media contact list.

a past a partof someone's lifein which they did unacceptableor dishonestthings: with a pastHe's a man with a past. His parentsdidn't wanthim to marrya woman with a past. Emigrating was an attractiveoptionfor someone with a past they wantedto leavebehind. have a pastShe had a past and she didn't carewho knewabout it.

‘Late of’, however, is an outdated way of saying that someone is no longer associated with something (as in ‘Mary Jones, late of Centerville’). It means that she previously lived there.