Thesaurus:long ago

Thesaurus

long ago

English

Adverb

Sense: in the distant past

Synonyms

• anciently
• backcast (British dialect)
• lang syne (British dialect)
• long ago
• long long ago
• long since
• of old
• of yore (archaic)
• once upon a time
• stalely (obsolete)
• time was
• way back
• way back when
• yore (obsolete)

Antonyms

• recently    [⇒ thesaurus]
• eventually    [⇒ thesaurus]
• one day    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• one day    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• formerly    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

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