Exact Match:
- hard times
- a time of difficulty
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- rainy day
collapse - a (future) time of financial need; "I am saving for a rainy day" related words >
- bad times,
- bust,
- cat-and-dog weather,
- depression,
- dirty weather,
- economic stagnation,
- evil day,
- hard times,
- heavy weather,
- monsoon,
- predominance of Aquarius,
- raininess,
- rains,
- rainy season,
- rainy weather,
- recession,
- sad times,
- slump,
- spell of rain,
- spring rains,
- stormy weather,
- wet,
- wet season,
- wet weather
- yesterday
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- the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers"
- the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"
- on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful"
- in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!" related words >
- aforetime,
- before,
- before now,
- beforetime,
- bygone days,
- bygone times,
- days gone by,
- dead past,
- earlier,
- erenow,
- erewhile,
- erst,
- foretime,
- former times,
- formerly,
- heretofore,
- historically,
- history,
- hitherto,
- in the past,
- in times past,
- lang syne,
- only yesterday,
- past,
- past history,
- past times,
- prehistorically,
- previously,
- priorly,
- recent past,
- recently,
- the irrevocable Past,
- the past,
- then,
- thou unrelenting past,
- times past,
- whilom,
- yesteryear,
- yore
- auld lang syne,
- banality,
- bromide,
- chestnut,
- cliche,
- commonplace,
- commonplace expression,
- corn,
- days beyond recall,
- days of old,
- days of yore,
- early times,
- eld,
- familiar tune,
- good old times,
- hackneyed saying,
- lang syne,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- long ago,
- old days,
- old joke,
- old saw,
- old song,
- old times,
- olden times,
- platitude,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- prose,
- reiteration,
- retold story,
- same old story,
- stereotyped saying,
- the olden time,
- times of old,
- times of yore,
- trite saying,
- triticism,
- twice-told tale,
- way back,
- yore,
- yoretime
- again and again,
- commonly,
- continually,
- day after day,
- day by day,
- frequently,
- habitually,
- in many instances,
- many a time,
- many times,
- many times over,
- most often,
- much,
- not infrequently,
- not seldom,
- oft,
- often enough,
- oftentimes,
- ofttimes,
- ordinarily,
- over and over,
- recurrently,
- regularly,
- repeatedly,
- routinely,
- several times,
- time after time,
- time and again,
- times without number,
- unseldom,
- usually,
- whenever you wish,
- year after year
- repeatedly
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- several time; "it must be washed repeatedly" related words >
- again and again,
- commonly,
- day after day,
- day by day,
- frequently,
- habitually,
- in many instances,
- many a time,
- many times,
- many times over,
- most often,
- much,
- not infrequently,
- not seldom,
- oft,
- often,
- often enough,
- oftentimes,
- ofttimes,
- ordinarily,
- over again,
- over and over,
- recurrently,
- repetitively,
- routinely,
- several times,
- time,
- time after time,
- time and again,
- times without number,
- unseldom,
- usually,
- whenever you wish,
- year after year
- at infrequent intervals,
- at intervals,
- at odd times,
- at times,
- at various times,
- betimes,
- betweentimes,
- betweenwhiles,
- ever and again,
- ever and anon,
- every so often,
- here and there,
- now,
- occasionally,
- on divers occasions,
- on occasion,
- once and again,
- only occasionally,
- only when necessary,
- sometimes
- frequently
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- many times at short intervals; "we often met over a cup of coffee" related words >
- a lot,
- again and again,
- as a rule,
- chronically,
- commonly,
- continually,
- customarily,
- day after day,
- day by day,
- every so often,
- generally,
- habitually,
- in many instances,
- inveterately,
- many a time,
- many times,
- many times over,
- most often,
- much,
- not infrequently,
- not seldom,
- oft,
- often,
- often enough,
- oftentimes,
- ofttimes,
- ordinarily,
- over and over,
- persistently,
- recurrently,
- recurringly,
- regularly,
- repeatedly,
- repetitively,
- routinely,
- several times,
- time after time,
- time and again,
- times without number,
- unseldom,
- usually,
- whenever you wish,
- year after year
- long ago
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- of the distant or comparatively distant past; "We met once long ago"; "they long ago forsook their nomadic life"; "left for work long ago"; "he has long since given up mountain climbing"; "This name has long since been forgotten"; "lang syne" is Scottish related words >
- ages ago,
- anciently,
- and night,
- auld lang syne,
- away back,
- day after day,
- days beyond recall,
- days of old,
- days of yore,
- early,
- early times,
- eld,
- enduringly,
- for an age,
- for life,
- for long,
- good old times,
- hour after hour,
- in ancient times,
- in olden times,
- in times past,
- interminably,
- lang syne,
- long,
- long since,
- month after month,
- morning,
- noon,
- of old,
- of yore,
- old days,
- old story,
- old times,
- olden times,
- persistently,
- protractedly,
- same old story,
- since time began,
- some time ago,
- some time back,
- the livelong day,
- the olden time,
- till doomsday,
- time immemorial,
- times of old,
- times of yore,
- undyingly,
- unendingly,
- way back,
- year after year,
- years ago,
- yore,
- yoretime
- over and over
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- repeatedly; "the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text" related words >
- day by day
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- gradually and progressively; "his health weakened day by day" related words >
- again and again,
- cyclically,
- daily,
- day after day,
- epochally,
- every day,
- every hour,
- frequently,
- hour by hour,
- hourly,
- in time,
- many a time,
- many times,
- many times over,
- often,
- on the beat,
- over and over,
- periodically,
- recurrently,
- repeatedly,
- rhythmically,
- seasonally,
- several times,
- synchronously,
- time after time,
- time and again,
- times without number,
- year after year
- ad interim,
- at infrequent intervals,
- at intervals,
- at odd times,
- at times,
- at various times,
- between acts,
- betweenwhiles,
- during the interval,
- en attendant,
- every so often,
- for a time,
- for the meantime,
- for the nonce,
- in the interim,
- in the meanwhile,
- meantime,
- meanwhile,
- now and then,
- occasionally,
- on divers occasions,
- on occasion,
- once and again,
- only occasionally,
- only when necessary,
- pendente lite,
- sometimes,
- until then
- occasionally
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- now and then or here and there; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees"; "they visit New York on occasion"; "now and again she would take her favorite book from the shelf and read to us"; "as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention" related words >
- at infrequent intervals,
- at intervals,
- at odd times,
- at times,
- at various times,
- betweentimes,
- betweenwhiles,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by skips,
- by snatches,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- every so often,
- fitfully,
- haphazardly,
- here and there,
- in spots,
- infrequently,
- intermittently,
- irregularly,
- now and then,
- off and on,
- on divers occasions,
- on occasion,
- once and again,
- only occasionally,
- only when necessary,
- per saltum,
- periodically,
- randomly,
- skippingly,
- sometimes,
- sporadically,
- uncommonly,
- willy-nilly
- ad infinitum,
- at a stretch,
- ceaselessly,
- commonly,
- connectedly,
- constantly,
- continually,
- continuously,
- cumulatively,
- cyclically,
- day after day,
- day by day,
- endlessly,
- frequently,
- habitually,
- in many instances,
- incessantly,
- interminably,
- many a time,
- many times,
- many times over,
- monotonously,
- most often,
- much,
- not infrequently,
- not seldom,
- oft,
- often,
- often enough,
- oftentimes,
- ofttimes,
- on a stretch,
- on and on,
- on end,
- ordinarily,
- over and over,
- perennially,
- recurrently,
- repeatedly,
- repetitively,
- round the clock,
- routinely,
- several times,
- time after time,
- time and again,
- times without number,
- together,
- unbrokenly,
- unceasingly,
- unintermittently,
- uninterruptedly,
- unrelievedly,
- unseldom,
- usually,
- whenever you wish,
- without a break,
- without cease,
- without stopping,
- year after year
- bad times,
- bust,
- calm weather,
- cat-and-dog weather,
- climate,
- clime,
- cold weather,
- cyclone,
- depression,
- dirty weather,
- economic stagnation,
- evil day,
- fair weather,
- forces of nature,
- foul weather,
- good weather,
- halcyon days,
- hard times,
- heavy weather,
- hot weather,
- hurricane,
- line squall,
- macroclimate,
- microclimate,
- monsoon,
- predominance of Aquarius,
- raininess,
- rains,
- rainstorm,
- rainy day,
- rainy season,
- rainy weather,
- recession,
- rough weather,
- sad times,
- slump,
- snowstorm,
- spell of rain,
- spring rains,
- squall,
- storm,
- tempest,
- tempestuous rage,
- the elements,
- thunderstorm,
- tornado,
- typhoon,
- weather,
- wet,
- wet season,
- wet weather,
- windiness,
- windstorm
- recession
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- the act of ceding back
- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year related words >
- abandonment,
- alcove,
- backset,
- backsliding,
- backward motion,
- backward step,
- bad times,
- bay,
- boom,
- bottoming out,
- business cycle,
- business fluctuations,
- bust,
- capitulation,
- cession,
- cooling off,
- corner,
- cove,
- crisis,
- decline,
- depression,
- dip,
- downturn,
- economic cycle,
- economic expansion,
- economic growth,
- economic stagnation,
- evil day,
- expanding economy,
- expansion,
- giving in,
- giving over,
- giving up,
- growth,
- hard times,
- heavy weather,
- high growth rate,
- inglenook,
- lapse,
- low,
- market expansion,
- niche,
- nook,
- peak,
- peaking,
- pitchhole,
- prosperity,
- rainy day,
- reaction,
- recedence,
- recess,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- recovery,
- reentry,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regress,
- regression,
- relapse,
- relinquishment,
- renunciation,
- retreat,
- retroaction,
- retrocession,
- retroflexion,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- retrusion,
- return,
- rollback,
- sad times,
- setback,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- stagnation,
- sternway,
- stormy weather,
- surrender,
- throwback,
- upturn
- times
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- a more or less definite period of time in history related words >
- affairs,
- circumstances,
- concerns,
- condition of things,
- conditions,
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- dealings,
- doings,
- goings-on,
- historical present,
- life,
- march of events,
- matters,
- modernity,
- newness,
- now,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- our times,
- present,
- present tense,
- presentness,
- proceedings,
- relations,
- run of things,
- state of affairs,
- the Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- the world,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this moment,
- this point,
- this stage,
- today,
- what happens
- previously
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- at an earlier time or formerly; "she had previously lived in Chicago"; "he was previously president of a bank"; "better than anything previously proposed"; "a previously unquestioned attitude"; "antecedently arranged" related words >
- aforetime,
- already,
- at one time,
- before,
- before all,
- before now,
- beforehand,
- beforetime,
- earlier,
- early,
- ere,
- ere then,
- erenow,
- erewhile,
- erst,
- erstwhile,
- formerly,
- heretofore,
- historically,
- hitherto,
- in olden times,
- in the past,
- in times past,
- once,
- only yesterday,
- or ever,
- prehistorically,
- priorly,
- recently,
- some time ago,
- then,
- theretofore,
- whilom,
- yesterday,
- yet
- aeons ago,
- ages ago,
- anciently,
- and night,
- away back,
- day after day,
- early,
- enduringly,
- ever since,
- for an age,
- for life,
- for long,
- from away back,
- from time immemorial,
- hour after hour,
- in ancient times,
- in olden times,
- in times past,
- interminably,
- long,
- long ago,
- month after month,
- morning,
- noon,
- of old,
- of yore,
- persistently,
- protractedly,
- since,
- since long ago,
- since time began,
- some time ago,
- some time back,
- the livelong day,
- till doomsday,
- time immemorial,
- undyingly,
- unendingly,
- until now,
- year after year,
- years ago
- archaic
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- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe" related words >
- Gothic,
- Victorian,
- abandoned,
- abjured,
- antediluvian,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- behind the times,
- bygone,
- classical,
- dated,
- deserted,
- discontinued,
- disused,
- done with,
- fossil,
- fossilized,
- grown old,
- medieval,
- mid-Victorian,
- not worth saving,
- obsolescent,
- obsolete,
- of other times,
- old,
- old-fashioned,
- old-timey,
- old-world,
- on the shelf,
- out,
- out of use,
- out-of-date,
- outdated,
- outmoded,
- outworn,
- passe,
- past use,
- pensioned off,
- petrified,
- relinquished,
- renounced,
- resigned,
- retired,
- superannuate,
- superannuated,
- superseded,
- undeveloped,
- worn-out
- golden age
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- (classical mythology) the first and best age of the world, a time of ideal happiness, prosperity, and innocence; by extension, any flourishing and outstanding period
- any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness
- a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak; "it was the golden age of cinema" related words >
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- historical present,
- modernity,
- newness,
- now,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- our times,
- present,
- present tense,
- presentness,
- the Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this moment,
- this point,
- this stage,
- today
- newness
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- the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness related words >
- authenticity,
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- creativeness,
- creativity,
- freshness,
- historical present,
- innovation,
- inventiveness,
- modernity,
- nonimitation,
- novelty,
- now,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- originality,
- our times,
- present,
- present tense,
- presentness,
- the Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this moment,
- this point,
- this stage,
- today,
- uniqueness
- history
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- the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
- all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"
- a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
- the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"
- the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history" related words >
- Clio,
- Muse of history,
- account,
- adventures,
- ancient history,
- annals,
- antiquity,
- autobiography,
- background,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- bygone days,
- bygone times,
- case history,
- catalog,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- confessions,
- correspondence,
- curriculum vitae,
- days gone by,
- days of yore,
- dead letter,
- dead past,
- depiction,
- description,
- diary,
- documentation,
- epic,
- experience,
- experiences,
- foretime,
- former times,
- fortunes,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- historiography,
- information,
- intelligence,
- inventory,
- journal,
- legend,
- letters,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- list,
- martyrology,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- narration,
- narrative,
- necrology,
- news,
- obituary,
- old hat,
- past,
- past history,
- past times,
- photobiography,
- pipe roll,
- portrayal,
- profile,
- recapitulation,
- recent past,
- recital,
- record,
- recording,
- register,
- registry,
- relation,
- relic,
- remains,
- report,
- representation,
- resume,
- retailing,
- retelling,
- roll,
- rolls,
- roster,
- rota,
- saga,
- scroll,
- story,
- summary,
- table,
- tale,
- telling,
- the irrevocable Past,
- the past,
- theory of history,
- thou unrelenting past,
- times past,
- token,
- trace,
- version,
- vestige,
- yesterday,
- yesteryear
- today
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- the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow); "Today is beautiful"; "did you see today's newspaper?"
- the present time or age; "the world of today"; "today we have computers"
- on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow; "I can't meet with you today" related words >
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- but now,
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- even now,
- for the nonce,
- for this occasion,
- here,
- here and now,
- hereat,
- hic et nunc,
- historical present,
- in our time,
- in these days,
- just now,
- modernity,
- newness,
- now,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- on the spot,
- our times,
- present,
- present tense,
- presently,
- presentness,
- the Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this moment,
- this night,
- this point,
- this stage,
- tonight
- always
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- at all times; all the time and on every occasion; "I will always be there to help you"; "always arrives on time"; "there is always some pollution in the air"; "ever hoping to strike it rich"; "ever busy"
- forever; throughout all time; "we will always be friends"; "I shall treasure it always"; "I will always love you"
- at any time or in any event; "you can always resign if you don't like it"; "you could always take a day off"
- seemingly without interruption; often and repeatedly; "always looking for faults"; "it is always raining"; "he is forever cracking jokes"; "they are forever arguing" related words >
- abidingly,
- again and again,
- all along,
- all over,
- all the time,
- all the while,
- at all times,
- at every turn,
- ceaselessly,
- changelessly,
- constantly,
- continually,
- continuously,
- cosmically,
- daily,
- daily and hourly,
- day after day,
- day and night,
- enduringly,
- eternally,
- ever,
- ever and always,
- ever and anon,
- everlastingly,
- evermore,
- every day,
- every hour,
- every moment,
- everywhere,
- forever,
- forevermore,
- frequently,
- galactically,
- hour after hour,
- hourly,
- in any case,
- in every instance,
- in perpetuity,
- incessantly,
- inflexibly,
- internationally,
- invariably,
- lastingly,
- like clockwork,
- many times,
- methodically,
- month after month,
- never otherwise,
- night and day,
- often,
- on and on,
- orderly,
- perennially,
- permanently,
- perpetually,
- rapidly,
- regularly,
- right along,
- rigidly,
- statically,
- steadfastly,
- steadily,
- sustainedly,
- systematically,
- the world over,
- unceasingly,
- unchangingly,
- unendingly,
- unintermittently,
- uninterruptedly,
- universally,
- unvaryingly,
- unwaveringly,
- usually,
- without cease,
- without exception,
- without letup,
- without stopping,
- year after year
- corneous
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- made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) related words >
- bony,
- cement,
- cemental,
- concrete,
- dense,
- diamondlike,
- dure,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardhearted,
- horny,
- iron-hard,
- ironlike,
- lapideous,
- lithoid,
- lithoidal,
- marble,
- marblelike,
- obdurate,
- osseous,
- resistant,
- resistive,
- rocklike,
- rocky,
- solid,
- steellike,
- steely,
- stonelike,
- stony,
- tough
- regularly
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- in a regular manner; "letters arrived regularly from his children"
- in a regular way without variation; "try to breathe evenly"
- having a regular form; "regularly shaped objects" related words >
- always,
- as a rule,
- as per usual,
- as things go,
- as usual,
- at all times,
- at every turn,
- at regular intervals,
- at stated times,
- ceaselessly,
- chiefly,
- chronically,
- commonly,
- constantly,
- continually,
- customarily,
- daily,
- daily and hourly,
- day after day,
- day and night,
- evenly,
- ever,
- ever and anon,
- every day,
- every hour,
- every moment,
- every so often,
- frequently,
- generally,
- habitually,
- harmoniously,
- hour after hour,
- hourly,
- incessantly,
- intermittently,
- invariably,
- inveterately,
- like clockwork,
- mainly,
- methodically,
- month after month,
- most often,
- mostly,
- naturally,
- never otherwise,
- night and day,
- normally,
- normatively,
- on and on,
- on wheels,
- orderly,
- ordinarily,
- perennially,
- perpetually,
- persistently,
- prescriptively,
- punctually,
- rapidly,
- recurringly,
- repetitively,
- right along,
- routinely,
- smoothly,
- steadily,
- sustainedly,
- systematically,
- to be expected,
- unceasingly,
- uniformly,
- unintermittently,
- uninterruptedly,
- unvaryingly,
- usually,
- without cease,
- without exception,
- without letup,
- without stopping,
- year after year
- Augean task,
- Herculean task,
- arduousness,
- backbreaker,
- backbreaking work,
- ballbuster,
- bitch,
- burdensomeness,
- chore,
- dead lift,
- effortfulness,
- handful,
- hard labor,
- hard pull,
- hard work,
- heavy sledding,
- laboriousness,
- large order,
- man-sized job,
- onerousness,
- oppressiveness,
- rough go,
- strenuousness,
- tall order,
- toilsomeness,
- tough job,
- tough proposition,
- troublesomeness,
- uphill work,
- warm work
- past
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- a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
- the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"
- a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past"
- earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"
- a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle" related words >
- above,
- above and beyond,
- across,
- after,
- ago,
- ancient,
- antecedent,
- anterior,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- antiquity,
- aorist,
- aoristic,
- background,
- before,
- behind,
- beyond,
- biography,
- blown over,
- by,
- bygone,
- bygone days,
- bypast,
- career,
- chronology,
- close by,
- continuity,
- dated,
- days beyond recall,
- days gone by,
- days of old,
- days of yore,
- dead,
- dead and buried,
- dead and gone,
- deceased,
- defunct,
- departed,
- disused,
- done,
- duration,
- durative,
- duree,
- early,
- elapsed,
- erstwhile,
- existence,
- expired,
- extinct,
- finished,
- fore,
- foregoing,
- foretime,
- forgotten,
- former,
- former times,
- future,
- future perfect,
- gone,
- gone glimmering,
- gone out,
- gone-by,
- has-been,
- heretofore,
- historical present,
- history,
- immemorial,
- imperfect,
- in excess of,
- irrecoverable,
- lang syne,
- lapsed,
- last,
- lastingness,
- late,
- later than,
- life,
- lifetime,
- nearby,
- no more,
- obsolete,
- old,
- old times,
- olden,
- olden times,
- on,
- once,
- onetime,
- out,
- out of style,
- out of use,
- outside,
- outworn,
- over,
- over and above,
- passe,
- passed,
- passed away,
- past perfect,
- perfect,
- perfective,
- period,
- pluperfect,
- point tense,
- precedent,
- prehistoric,
- present,
- present perfect,
- preterit,
- preteritive,
- previous,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- prior,
- progressive tense,
- psychological time,
- quondam,
- recent,
- run out,
- since,
- sometime,
- space,
- space-time,
- subsequent to,
- tense,
- term,
- the future,
- the past,
- the present,
- then,
- tide,
- time,
- timebinding,
- too deep for,
- vanished,
- while,
- whilom,
- without,
- wound up,
- yesterday,
- yesteryear,
- yore
- early
collapse
- at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time; "early morning"; "an early warning"; "early diagnosis"; "an early death"; "took early retirement"; "an early spring"; "early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties"
- being or occurring at an early stage of development; "in an early stage"; "early forms of life"; "early man"; "an early computer"
- of an early stage in the development of a language or literature; "the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C."; "Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700"
- very young; "at an early age"
- expected in the near future; "look for an early end to the negotiations"
- before the usual time or the time expected; "she graduated early"; "the house was completed ahead of time"
- in good time; "he awoke betimes that morning" related words >
- a priori,
- advanced,
- ages ago,
- ahead,
- ahead of time,
- already,
- anachronistic,
- ancient,
- anciently,
- antecedent,
- antedated,
- antediluvian,
- anterior,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- away back,
- back,
- backward,
- before,
- before all,
- beforehand,
- beforetime,
- beginning,
- behind time,
- behindhand,
- betimes,
- bright and early,
- ci-devant,
- dated,
- earlier,
- elder,
- ere,
- ere then,
- erenow,
- erstwhile,
- ex post facto,
- first,
- fore,
- foredated,
- foregoing,
- forehand,
- forehanded,
- foresighted,
- foresightedly,
- former,
- formerly,
- heretofore,
- hitherto,
- immemorial,
- in advance,
- in ancient times,
- in anticipation,
- in good time,
- in olden times,
- in times past,
- inappropriate,
- initial,
- initially,
- inopportune,
- into the past,
- late,
- long ago,
- long since,
- metachronistic,
- misdated,
- mistimed,
- of old,
- of yore,
- old,
- olden,
- older,
- once,
- onetime,
- or ever,
- original,
- originally,
- out of date,
- out of season,
- overdue,
- oversoon,
- parachronistic,
- past,
- past due,
- pioneer,
- postdated,
- preceding,
- precipitant,
- precocious,
- precociously,
- precurrent,
- preexistent,
- prehistoric,
- premature,
- prematurely,
- prevenient,
- previous,
- previously,
- primal,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primordial,
- prior,
- priorly,
- pristine,
- prochronistic,
- quondam,
- recent,
- retroactive,
- retrospective,
- seasonably,
- senior,
- some time ago,
- some time back,
- sometime,
- soon,
- tardy,
- then,
- theretofore,
- timely,
- unanticipated,
- unexpected,
- unpunctual,
- unseasonable,
- untimely,
- years ago,
- yet
- overburden
collapse
- the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits
- burden with too much work or responsibility
- load with excessive weight related words >
- bear hard upon,
- burden,
- burthen,
- charge,
- choke,
- congest,
- cram,
- crowd,
- cumber,
- drench,
- encumber,
- freight,
- glut,
- gluttonize,
- go hard with,
- go ill with,
- gorge,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- jam,
- jam-pack,
- lade,
- lie on,
- load,
- oppress,
- overcharge,
- overfeed,
- overfill,
- overlade,
- overload,
- overstuff,
- overtax,
- overweigh,
- overweight,
- pack,
- press hard upon,
- rest hard upon,
- saddle,
- satiate,
- saturate,
- soak,
- stuff,
- supercharge,
- supersaturate,
- surcharge,
- surfeit,
- tax,
- try one,
- weigh down,
- weigh heavy on,
- weigh on,
- weigh upon
- afresh
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- again but in a new or different way; "start afresh"; "wanted to write the story anew"; "starting life anew in a fresh place" related words >
- ab ovo,
- again,
- anew,
- another time,
- as new,
- bis,
- da capo,
- de novo,
- ditto,
- encore,
- freshly,
- from scratch,
- from the beginning,
- lately,
- new,
- newly,
- of late,
- once again,
- once more,
- over,
- over again,
- recently,
- twice over,
- two times,
- yet again
- ab ovo,
- afresh,
- again,
- another time,
- as new,
- bis,
- da capo,
- de novo,
- ditto,
- encore,
- freshly,
- from scratch,
- from the beginning,
- lately,
- new,
- newly,
- of late,
- once again,
- once more,
- over,
- over again,
- recently,
- twice over,
- two times,
- yet again
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