N. inexistence, nonexistence, nonsubsistence, # nonentity,
nil, negativeness,
nullity,
nihility,
nihilism, tabula rasa,
blank,
abeyance, absence, no such thing, nonbeing, nothingness,
oblivion,
annihilation,
extinction,
extinguishment,
extirpation,
nirvana,
obliteration V. not exist, have no existence, be null and void, cease to exist, pass away, perish, be extinct, become extinct, die out, disappear, melt away,
dissolve, leave not a rack behind, go, be no more, die,
annihilate, render null,
nullify,
abrogate, destroy, take away, remove,
obliterate,
extirpate Adj. inexistent,
nonexistent, negative,
blank, missing, omitted, absent, insubstantial,
shadowy,
spectral,
visionary, unreal, potential,
virtual, baseless, in nubibus, unsubstantial, vain, unborn, uncreated,
unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade, perished,
annihilated,
&c. v, extinct, exhausted,
gone, lost,
vanished, departed, gone with the wind,
defunct,
fabulous, ideal,
supposititious Adv. negatively, virtually
Phr. non ens, 2, being, in the concrete
N. the past, past time, days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days gone by, times gone by, bygone days, old times, ancient times, former times, fore time, the good old days, the olden time, good old time,
auld lang syne, eld|, antiquity,
antiqueness,
status quo, time immemorial, distance of time, remote age, remote time, remote past, rust of antiquity paleontology,
paleography,
paleology,
paleozoology, palætiology|,
archaeology, paleogeography, paleoecology,
paleobotany, paleoclimatoogy,
archaism,
antiquarianism,
medievalism, pre-raphaelitism,
paleography,
retrospect,
retrospection, looking back, memory, laudator temporis acti,
medievalist, pre-raphaelite,
antiquary,
antiquarian, archmologist &c, oldbuck, dryasdust,
ancestry V. be past, have expired, have run its course, have had its day, pass, pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off,
lapse, blow over, look back, trace back, cast the eyes back,
exhume Adj. past,
gone, gone by, over, passed away,
bygone,
foregone,
elapsed,
lapsed,
preterlapsed,
expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct,
antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind,
exploded, forgotten,
irrecoverable, obsolete, former,
pristine,
quondam,
ci-devant, late,
ancestral, foregoing, last, latter, recent, over night,
preterperfect,
preterpluperfect, looking back,
retrospective,
retroactive,
archaeological Adv. paleo-, archaeo-, formerly, of old, of yore,
erst,
whilom,
erewhile, time was, ago, over, in the olden time, anciently, long ago, long since, a long while, a long time ago, years ago,
yesteryear, ages ago, some time ago, some time since, some time back,
yesterday, the day before yesterday, last year,
ultimo, lately,
retrospectively, ere now, before now, till now, hitherto,
heretofore, no longer, once, once upon a time, from time immemorial, from prehistoric times, in the memory of man, time out of mind, already, yet, up to this time,
ex post facto Phr. time was, the time has been, the time hath been, you can't go home again, fuimus troes, fruit ilium, hoc erat in more majorum, "o call back yesterday, bid time return", tempi passati, "the eternal landscape of the past", ultimus romanorum, "what's past is prologue", "whose yesterdays look backward with a smile", 2. time with reference to a particular period
N. absence, inexistence, # nonresidence,
absenteeism, nonattendance,
alibi,
emptiness, void,
vacuum,
vacuity,
vacancy, tabula rasa,
exemption,
hiatus, lipotype|,
truant,
absentee,
nobody, nobody present, nobody on earth, not a soul, ame qui vive
V. be absent, keep away, keep out of the way, play truant, absent oneself, stay away, keep aloof, hold aloof, withdraw, make oneself scarce,
vacate, go away
Adj. absent, not present, away, nonresident,
gone, from home, missing, lost, wanting, omitted, nowhere to be found, inexistence, empty, void,
vacant,
vacuous, untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited, tenantless, barren,
sterile, desert, deserted, devoid, uninhabitable
Adv. without,
minus, nowhere, elsewhere, neither here nor there, in default of, sans, behind one's back
Phr. the bird has flown,
non est inventus, "absence makes the heart grow fonder", "absent in body but present in spirit", absento nemo ne nocuisse velit, "achilles absent was achilles still", aux absents les os, briller par son absence, "conspicuous by his absence", "in the hope to meet shortly again and make our absence sweet"
Death Roget’s Thesaurus §360 N. death,
decease,
demise, dissolution, departure,
obit, release, rest,
quietus, fall, loss,
bereavement, mortality,
morbidity, end of life, cessation of life, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life, death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed, stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death, last breath, last gasp, last agonies, dying day, dying breath, dying agonies, chant du cygne, rigor mortis, stygian shore, king of terrors, king death, death,
doom, "hell's grim tyrant",
euthanasia, break up of the system, natural death, natural decay, sudden death, violent death, untimely end, watery grave, debt of nature,
suffocation,
asphyxia, fatal disease, death blow,
necrology, bills of mortality,
obituary, death song
V. die,
expire, perish, meet one's death, meet one's end, pass away, be taken, yield one's breath, resign one's breath, resign one's being, resign one's life, end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career, breathe one's last, cease to live, cease to breathe, depart this life, be no more, go off, drop off, pop off, lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life, drop into the grave, sink into the grave, close one's eyes, fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead, break one's neck, give up the ghost, yield up the ghost, be all over with one, pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep, go the way of all flesh, hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips, join the greater number, join the majority, come to dust, turn to dust, cross the stygian ferry, cross the bar, go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to davy jones's locker, go to the wall, receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle, come to an untimely end, catch one's death, go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes, die a violent death
Adj. dead, lifeless, deceased,
demised, departed,
defunct, extinct, late,
gone, no more,
exanimate,
inanimate, out of the world, taken off, released, departed this life, dead and gone, dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits, launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead, dying,
moribund, morient|,
hippocratic, in articulo, in extremis, in the jaws of death, in the agony of death, going off, aux abois, one one's last legs, on one's death bed, at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp, near one's end, given over, booked, with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave,
stillborn,
mortuary, deadly
Adv. post obit, post mortem
Phr. life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread, one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed, death knocks at the door, death stares one in the face, the breath is out of the body, the grave closes over one, sic itur ad astra, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, honesta mors turpi vita potior, "in adamantine chains shall death be bound", mors ultima linea rerum est, ominia mors aequat, "spake the grisly terror", "the lone couch of this everlasting sleep", nothing is certain but death and taxes
V. disappear,
vanish,
dissolve,
fade, melt away, pass, go,
avaunt,
evaporate,
vaporize, be gone, leave no trace, leave "not a rack behind", go off the stage, suffer an eclipse, undergo an eclipse, retire from sight, be lost to view, pass out of sight, lose sight of,
efface Adj. disappearing,
evanescent, missing, lost, lost to sight, lost to view,
gone Int. vanish, disappear,
avaunt, get lost, get out of here, words relating to the intellectual faculties
N. hopelessness,
despair,
desperation,
despondency, depression,
pessimism,
pessimist, job's comforter, bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen,
abandonment,
desolation,
resignation, surrender, submission, hope deferred, dashed hopes, vain expectation, airy hopes &c, forlorn hope, gone case, dead duck, gone coon*, goner*, bad job, bad business, enfant perdu, gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon, slough of despond, cave of despair, immedicabile vulnus
V. despair, lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of, give up, give over, yield to despair,
falter,
despond, jeter le manche apres la cognee, inspire despair, drive to despair,
disconcert, dash one's hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes, hope against hope,
abandon, resign, surrender, submit
Adj. hopeless,
desperate,
despairing,
gone, in despair, au desespoir,
forlorn,
desolate,
inconsolable, broken hearted, unpromising,
unpropitious,
inauspicious,
ill-omened,
threatening, clouded over, out of the question, not to be thought of, impracticable, past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall, at one's last gasp, given up, given over, incurable, cureless,
immedicable,
remediless, beyond remedy,
incorrigible,
irreparable,
irremediable,
irrecoverable,
irreversible,
irretrievable,
irreclaimable,
irredeemable,
irrevocable, ruined, undone,
immitigable Phr. "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate", its days are numbered, the worst come to the worst, "no change, no pause, no hope, yet i endure", "o dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon", "mene mene tekel upharson"
