Time
Synonyms for past
Synonyms for past: yesteryear and retiring. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for past
Interchangeable with past in this sense
Audited under past's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one past carries in that sense.
- yesteryearnoun, in the sense "the time that has elapsed"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name past as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- retiringretiring is an adjective in the sense "of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under past and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
the time that has elapsed
Forget the past.
The true synonym
yesteryear
Same sentence, swapped: Forget the yesteryear.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for past in the sentence quoted.
- future
- present
- eternity
Where past turns up in the game
past is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where past is the trap
- outsideadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is external, in the sense "coming from the outside", so past is there to be ruled out.
- presentnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is nowadays, in the sense "the period of time that is happening now", so past is there to be ruled out.
- forgottenadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is disregarded, in the sense "not noticed inadvertently", and past is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play past
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so past reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other time words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. past carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.