yesterday

The word “yesterday” has 3 syllables: yes-ter-day

It's pronounced as /ˈjɛs.tər.deɪ/


What is synonym and antonym for yesterday?

In the thesaurus, “yesterday” has 19 synonyms and 10 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for yesterday along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for yesterday

  • Last Day
  • annals
  • antiquity
  • auld lang syne
  • bygone
  • chronicle
  • flashback
  • foretime
  • history
  • lang syne
  • long ago
  • memoir
  • not long ago
  • past
  • recently
  • record
  • the other day
  • yesteryear
  • yore

Antonyms for yesterday

  • by-and-by
  • future
  • futurity
  • hereafter
  • moment
  • now
  • offing
  • present
  • today
  • tomorrow

Meanings of yesterday

  • noun
    1. The day immediately before today; one day ago.
    2. The recent past, often disparaging.
  • adverb
    1. On the day before today.
    2. As soon as possible.

Example Sentences

  • Yesterday was a busy day at work, with back-to-back meetings and deadlines to meet.
  • She finished reading the book she started yesterday and was eager to start a new one.
  • We went for a hike yesterday and enjoyed the beautiful scenery along the trail.
  • Yesterday marked the anniversary of their first date, so they celebrated with a romantic dinner.
  • I forgot my umbrella at home yesterday, and of course, it rained heavily while I was out.

On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to yesterday, such as: Last Day, annals, antiquity, auld lang syne, by-and-by, bygone, chronicle.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

accepting

  • abiding
  • abject
  • absorbing
  • acceding
  • acceptance
  • acceptive
  • acclaiming
  • accord
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • admiring
  • admission
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • adoption
  • adoring
  • adulatory
  • advisory
  • advocating
  • affirmation
  • affirming
  • agreeing
  • agreement
  • allowing
  • altering
  • amenable
  • applauding
  • applying
  • appreciative
  • approbatory
  • appropriation
  • approval
  • approving
  • arrogation
  • artless
  • assent
  • assenting
  • assuming
  • assurance
  • attending
  • attentive
  • attestation
  • authenticating
  • authentication
  • authorization
  • authorizing
  • avowal
  • backing
  • bearing
  • becoming
  • belief
  • believing
  • biding
  • bleak
  • blue
  • born yesterday
  • bringing in
  • brokenhearted
  • brooking
  • buying
  • capitulating
  • certain
  • certainty
  • championing
  • cheerless
  • childlike
  • collecting
  • comfortless
  • commendatory
  • commending
  • compliance
  • complimentary
  • concentrating
  • concluding
  • confidence
  • confident
  • confiding
  • confirming
  • conjecture
  • consent
  • consenting
  • convinced
  • cooperation
  • corroborating
  • corroboration
  • countenancing
  • credit
  • crediting
  • credulous
  • crestfallen
  • cynical
  • dark
  • deducing
  • dejected
  • demonstration
  • dependence
  • dependent
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • disappointed
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • doleful
  • down
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • drawing
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dupable
  • earning
  • easy mark
  • embracing
  • employing
  • encomiastic
  • endorsement
  • endorsing
  • enduring
  • enjoying
  • espousing
  • eulogistic
  • evidence
  • expectation
  • faith
  • falling for
  • fancy
  • favorable
  • favoring
  • flattering
  • forlorn
  • friendly
  • funereal
  • gaining
  • gathering
  • getting
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • go ahead
  • going
  • going for
  • good
  • grab
  • green
  • green light
  • grieving
  • growing
  • guess
  • guileless
  • gullable
  • gullible
  • hacking
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • handling
  • hangdog
  • having
  • having faith
  • hearkening
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heeding
  • holding with
  • hopeful
  • hopeless
  • hunch
  • hypothesis
  • idolizing
  • inconsolable
  • indorsing
  • inference
  • inferring
  • inheriting
  • innocent
  • interested
  • joyless
  • kind
  • laudative
  • laudatory
  • lauding
  • lenient
  • liking
  • living with
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • magnanimous
  • making
  • meeting
  • melancholy
  • merciful
  • miserable
  • mournful
  • naive
  • nod
  • obtaining
  • okay
  • okaying
  • open
  • open-minded
  • overconfident
  • overtrusting
  • panegyrical
  • passage
  • passing
  • paying attention
  • permission
  • permitting
  • pessimistic
  • pocketing
  • posit
  • positive
  • postulate
  • postulation
  • practicing
  • praiseful
  • praising
  • premise
  • presuming
  • presumption
  • presupposition
  • proof
  • proving
  • ratifying
  • reaccepting
  • reassuming
  • receipt
  • receiving
  • reception
  • recognition
  • recommendatory
  • recommending
  • reliance
  • reliant
  • resigned
  • respectful
  • respecting
  • sad
  • saddened
  • saluting
  • sanction
  • sanctioning
  • secure
  • securing
  • seizure
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • shot
  • shot in the dark
  • shouldering
  • simple
  • sneaking suspicion
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stab
  • stamp of approval
  • standing
  • standing by
  • standing for
  • sticking out
  • stock
  • stomaching
  • store
  • submitting to
  • substantiation
  • succumbing
  • suffering
  • support
  • supporting
  • supportive
  • supposal
  • supposing
  • supposition
  • sure
  • surmise
  • suspicion
  • sustaining
  • swallow whole
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • sympathetic
  • taken in
  • takeover
  • taking
  • taking kindly to
  • taking on
  • taking over
  • taking up
  • testament
  • testimonial
  • testimony
  • testing
  • theorization
  • theory
  • thesis
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • uncritical
  • understanding
  • undertaking
  • undoubting
  • unhappy
  • unquestioning
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
  • unsuspicious
  • unwary
  • upholding
  • usurpation
  • validating
  • verification
  • verifying
  • visa
  • wailing
  • warm
  • warrant
  • warranting
  • wearing
  • weeping
  • welcoming
  • witness
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • working
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • wretched
  • yes

falling for

  • accepting
  • adoring
  • adulating
  • believing
  • born yesterday
  • canonizing
  • cherishing
  • deifying
  • dupable
  • easy mark
  • green
  • idealizing
  • idolizing
  • loving
  • overtrusting
  • reverencing
  • revering
  • simple
  • swallow whole
  • taken in
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • uncritical
  • unquestioning
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
  • unsuspicious
  • unwary
  • venerating
  • worshiping
  • worshipping

old

  • Noachian
  • aboriginal
  • adult
  • age-old
  • aged
  • ageing
  • ageless
  • aging
  • along in years
  • ancient
  • anile
  • annoying
  • antediluvian
  • antiquated
  • antique
  • antiquity
  • archaic
  • archaistic
  • arid
  • aseptic
  • barren
  • blah
  • blank
  • boring
  • bothersome
  • broken down
  • bygone
  • cast-off
  • centenarian
  • classic
  • classical
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • constant
  • continuing
  • crumbling
  • cumbersome
  • dated
  • dateless
  • dead
  • debilitated
  • debilitating
  • decayed
  • decrepit
  • defunct
  • demoralizing
  • departed
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • doddering
  • done
  • drab
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • durable
  • dusty
  • early
  • earthbound
  • elderly
  • enduring
  • enervating
  • enfeebled
  • enfeebling
  • erstwhile
  • established
  • exhausted
  • exhausting
  • experienced
  • expired
  • extinct
  • familiar
  • fatiguing
  • firm
  • flat
  • former
  • fossil
  • fusty
  • geriatric
  • getting on
  • gone
  • gray
  • gray-haired
  • grey
  • grizzled
  • grown-up
  • hackneyed
  • hallowed
  • hardened
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • hoar
  • hoary
  • humdrum
  • immemorial
  • impaired
  • inactive
  • inanimate
  • infirm
  • inveterate
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jading
  • jejune
  • lasting
  • late
  • leaden
  • lifelong
  • long in the tooth
  • long-ago
  • long-lasting
  • long-lived
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • matriarchal
  • mature
  • matured
  • mediaeval
  • medieval
  • middle-aged
  • mind-numbing
  • moldy
  • moment
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • moth-eaten
  • nonagenarian
  • not young
  • now
  • numbing
  • obsolete
  • octogenarian
  • of a certain age
  • of long standing
  • of old
  • of yore
  • old-fashioned
  • old-time
  • old-world
  • olden
  • older
  • oldfangled
  • oldish
  • once
  • onetime
  • ordinary
  • original
  • other
  • out-of-date
  • outmoded
  • over the hill
  • over-the-hill
  • overage
  • overaged
  • pallid
  • palling
  • past
  • patriarchal
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pensioned
  • perennial
  • permanent
  • perpetual
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • practiced
  • prehistoric
  • prehistorical
  • present
  • primeval
  • primitive
  • primordial
  • pristine
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • quondam
  • relic
  • remote
  • retired
  • retro
  • rusty
  • seasoned
  • senescent
  • senile
  • senior
  • septuagenarian
  • sexagenarian
  • skilled
  • slow
  • soggy
  • solid
  • sometime
  • spavined
  • spiritless
  • stale
  • staying
  • steady
  • sterile
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • superannuated
  • suspenseless
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tepid
  • time-honored
  • time-tested
  • time-worn
  • timeless
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • today
  • tottery
  • traditional
  • tried
  • tried-and-true
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unfashionable
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unoriginal
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • unyoung
  • vanished
  • vapid
  • venerable
  • versed
  • veteran
  • vintage
  • wasted
  • wearing
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying
  • whilom
  • worn-out
  • yesterday
  • yesteryear
  • yore

oldfangled

  • aboriginal
  • age-old
  • aged
  • ageless
  • anachronic
  • anachronistic
  • anachronous
  • ancient
  • antediluvian
  • antiquated
  • antique
  • archaic
  • atavistic
  • behind the times
  • belated
  • bygone
  • cast-off
  • corny
  • crumbling
  • dated
  • dateless
  • dead
  • decayed
  • defunct
  • demoded
  • departed
  • disapproved
  • disused
  • done
  • dowdy
  • down memory lane
  • early
  • elderly
  • erstwhile
  • extinct
  • forgotten
  • former
  • fossilized
  • fusty
  • gone
  • gone-by
  • grown old
  • hackneyed
  • has-been
  • historic
  • historical
  • hoary
  • immemorial
  • in oblivion
  • late
  • lost
  • moldy
  • moth-eaten
  • musty
  • neglected
  • not current
  • not modern
  • not with it
  • obsolescent
  • obsolete
  • odd
  • of old
  • of olden days
  • of the old school
  • of yore
  • old
  • old as Methuselah
  • old as the hills
  • old guard
  • old hat
  • old-fashioned
  • old-hat
  • old-school
  • old-time
  • old-timey
  • old-world
  • olden
  • once
  • one-time
  • onetime
  • original
  • out
  • out of it
  • out of style
  • out-of-date
  • outdated
  • outmoded
  • outworn
  • past
  • previous
  • primeval
  • primitive
  • primordial
  • pristine
  • quaint
  • quondam
  • relic
  • remote
  • retro
  • retrograde
  • rinky-dink
  • rococo
  • rusty
  • sometime
  • stale
  • stodgy
  • superannuated
  • superseded
  • time-worn
  • timeless
  • timeworn
  • traditional
  • unfashionable
  • unoriginal
  • unstylish
  • vanished
  • venerable
  • vintage
  • water over the dam
  • water under the bridge
  • worn-out
  • yesterday

taken in

  • absent
  • absentminded
  • absorbed
  • abstracted
  • accepted
  • accepting
  • accommodated
  • admitted
  • assimilated
  • bamboozled
  • barracked
  • beguiled
  • being a sucker
  • believing
  • bemused
  • bestowed
  • bewildered
  • bilked
  • billeted
  • biting
  • bivouacked
  • bled
  • bluffed
  • boarded
  • born yesterday
  • bracketed
  • buffaloed
  • bunked
  • burned
  • burnt
  • camped
  • carried
  • caught
  • chambered
  • cheated
  • chiseled
  • chiselled
  • composed
  • comprehended
  • comprised
  • confiding
  • conned
  • constituted
  • contained
  • cozened
  • credulous
  • deceived
  • defrauded
  • deluded
  • diddled
  • distrait
  • domiciled
  • done a number on
  • dreamy
  • dupable
  • duped
  • easily taken in
  • easy
  • easy mark
  • embodied
  • embraced
  • encamped
  • encompassed
  • engrossed
  • ensconced
  • entailed
  • entranced
  • euchred
  • faked out
  • falling for
  • falling hook line and sinker
  • faraway
  • feeble
  • finessed
  • fleeced
  • flimflammed
  • fooled
  • foolish
  • formed
  • gaffed
  • gammoned
  • going in circles
  • green
  • greeted
  • gulled
  • had
  • had on
  • harbored
  • held
  • hoaxed
  • homed
  • hoodwinked
  • hornswoggled
  • housed
  • humbugged
  • hustled
  • ignorant
  • included
  • inconscient
  • incorporated
  • inexperienced
  • ingenuous
  • innocent
  • integrated
  • involved
  • juggled
  • kidded
  • kidding oneself
  • led one down the garden path
  • led one up the garden path
  • lodged
  • made
  • mark
  • misguided
  • misinformed
  • misled
  • mulcted
  • musing
  • naive
  • numbered
  • off guard
  • overcharged
  • overtrusting
  • owned
  • perplexed
  • possessed
  • preoccupied
  • put on
  • put up
  • quartered
  • rapt
  • received
  • ripped off
  • roofed
  • rooked
  • roomed
  • roosted
  • scammed
  • secured
  • shedded
  • sheltered
  • shortchanged
  • silly
  • simple
  • skinned
  • snookered
  • snowed
  • spellbound
  • spoofed
  • squeezed
  • stabled
  • strung along
  • stuck
  • stung
  • subsumed
  • sucked in
  • sucker
  • suckered
  • susceptible
  • swallow whole
  • swallowing
  • swallowing whole
  • swindled
  • taken up
  • taking the bait
  • teased
  • tented
  • tricked
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • tumbling for
  • unconscious
  • uncritical
  • undoubting
  • unquestioning
  • unskeptical
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
  • unsuspicious
  • unwarned
  • unwary
  • victimized
  • wasted
  • wide-eyed

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