Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bygone
1 sense of bygone
Sense 1
bygone, water under the bridge -- (past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones")
=> past, past times, yesteryear -- (the time that has elapsed; "forget the past")
Antonyms of adj bygone
1 sense of bygone
Sense 1
bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone -- (well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era")
INDIRECT (VIA future, past) -> present -- (temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration; "the present leader"; "articles for present use"; "the present topic"; "the present system"; "present observations")
INDIRECT (VIA past, present) -> future -- (yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him")
Similarity of adj bygone
1 sense of bygone
Sense 1
bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone -- (well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era")
=> past (vs. present) (vs. future) -- (earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year")