Synonyms for yester-day
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : yes-ter-dey, -dee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈyɛs tərˌdeɪ, -di |
Top 10 synonyms for yester-day Other synonyms for the word yester-day
- ancient times
- banal
- belated
- bent
- bygone
- bygone times
- bygones
- cliché
- cliché-ridden
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- days gone by
- days of old
- days of yore
- dead
- démodé
- disused
- drab
- dusty
- effete
- extinct
- flat
- foretime
- former times
- fusty
- good old days
- good old times
- has-been
- horse and buggy days
- insipid
- lang syne
- Last Day
- like a dinosaur
- long ago
- mawkish
- moth-eaten
- not long ago
- obsolete
- old days
- old lang syne
- old times
- olden days
- olden times
- out
- out-of-date
- outdated
- outmoded
- outworn
- passé
- past
- platitudinous
- recently
- repetitious
- stereotyped
- superseded
- the other day
- time immemorial
- times of yore
- times past
- timeworn
- trite
- unfashionable
- unoriginal
- well-worn
- worn-out
- years ago
- yesterday
- yesterday's
- yesteryear
- yore
- zestless
Définition of yester-day
Origin :- Old English geostran dæg, from dæg "day" (see day) + geostran "yesterday," from Proto-Germanic *gestra- (cf. Old High German gestaron, German gestern "yesterday," Old Norse gær "tomorrow, yesterday," Gothic gistradagis "tomorrow"), originally "the other day" (reckoned from "today," either backward or forward), from PIE *ghes (cf. Sanskrit hyah, Avestan zyo, Persian di, Greek khthes, Latin heri, Old Irish indhe, Welsh doe "yesterday;" Latin hesternus "of yesterday").
- As in passé : adj old-fashioned
- As in stale : adj overused, out-of-date
- As in past : noun time gone by
- As in yesterday : noun the day before today
- As in good old days : noun times of old considered better than present
- As in water under the bridge : noun things forgotten about
- As in history : noun past events, experiences
- The announcement was made in the House yester-day, and the excitement all over the province is intense.
- Extract from : « George Brown » by John Lewis
- Would you just as soon stay here--and just read and talk, and fool around as we did yester-day?
- Extract from : « Harriet and the Piper » by Kathleen Norris
Antonyms for yester-day
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