Thesaurus:hitherto

Thesaurus

hitherto

English

Adverb

Sense: up to this point in time

Synonyms

• as yet (idiomatic)
• as of yet (idiomatic, perhaps nonstandard)
• erenow
• herebefore (archaic)
• hereto (archaic)
• heretofore
• heretoforetime (obsolete)
• hereunto (archaic)
• hereuntofore (rare)
• hitherto
• hithertofore (rare)
• so far
• thus far
• to date (idiomatic)
• up to now
• yet

Antonyms

• henceforth    [⇒ thesaurus]
• still

Hypernyms

• formerly    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “122. the past” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “hitherto” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.

See also

• hereinbefore (metatextual sense related by extension/conceptual metaphor to analogous temporal senses)