Synonyms of pasts

pasts

noun

plural of past

as in histories

the events or experience of former times

we spent a pleasant evening recalling the past together

Synonyms & Similar Words

• histories
• yesterdays
• yesteryears
• annals
• yores
• records
• flashbacks
• memoirs
• bygones
• antiquities
• auld lang synes
• chronicles
• long agos

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• futures
• tomorrows
• futurities
• offings
• moments
• hereafters
• presents
• nows
• todays
• by-and-bys

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pasts

There’s some wisdom in not having a rape threat hover over ten hours of serialized television, and the shift has opened up some thorny connections between Cady and Anna Bowden, whose pasts continue to intersect in intriguing ways. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 July 2026

At the same time, small fly-by-night schools have been opened by profiteers and people with problematic pasts or no educational experience. — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 16 July 2026

What makes the film compelling is how Pacino’s Will Dormer and Williams’ Walter Finch toy with each other over their pasts that are consuming them both. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 14 July 2026

The elision of more recent pasts leaves something to be desired elsewhere in the show, too. — Cat Dawson, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2026

Stay Close, another popular Coben adaptation, starred an ensemble cast of Armitage, James Nesbitt, Cush Jumbo and others as strangers whose lives are upended following a strange disappearance that threats to resurface their dark pasts, per Variety. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026

In this timely and personal film, Hardwicke wanted to capture the lives of skateboarders, artists and musicians who strive to live in freedom while confronting their often-traumatic pasts amid a streetscape sometimes marked by violence, drugs and mental illness. — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 18 June 2026

But even that speculative scheme showed how sophisticated PAU could be in adapting an assortment of seductive pasts. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 June 2026

Hannah and Garrett both open up about their pasts individually to other people after finding safe space in each other. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 May 2026