hitherto
Up to this
Hitherto means until now or up to this point: The species was hitherto unknown to science.
The word is formal and literary, appearing mostly in academic or legal writing.
It emphasizes that something was true in the past but may be changing: hitherto unexplored territory, hitherto unquestioned assumptions.
Before the present moment
- formerlyIn the past
- until nowUp to this point
- thus farUp to now
- beforehandIn advance
earlier · prior · antecedently · erstwhile · once · aforetime · in the past · so far
Before the present moment
- scholarlyMarked by serious learning
- discourseFormal communication on subjects
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
- treatiseFormal scholarly composition
thesis · research · literature · methodology · undocumented · unexplored · unexamined · understudied
Old and outdated
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- datedOld-fashioned or courted
- obsoleteNo longer in use
- VictorianOf a prim era
classical · literary · quaint · medieval · Renaissance · historical · period · prose
Conjunction signaling contrast
- hereinafterLater in this document
- aforementionedPreviously mentioned in text
- pursuantIn conformity with
- notwithstandingIn spite of
therein · hereto · thereby · aforesaid · foregoing · stipulated · prescribed · contractual
previously
Before the present moment
beforehand · earlier · prior · antecedently · erstwhile · once · aforetime · in the past · so far · as yet
previously
Before the present moment
- scholarlyMarked by serious learning
- discourseFormal communication on subjects
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
treatise · thesis · research · literature · methodology · undocumented · unexplored · unexamined · understudied · overlooked
antiquated
Old and outdated
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- datedOld-fashioned or courted
- obsoleteNo longer in use
Victorian · classical · literary · quaint · medieval · Renaissance · historical · period · prose · nineteenth-century
whereas
Conjunction signaling contrast
- hereinafterLater in this document
- aforementionedPreviously mentioned in text
- pursuantIn conformity with
notwithstanding · therein · hereto · thereby · aforesaid · foregoing · stipulated · prescribed · contractual · statutory
- old-fashioned wordsforsooth, hark, betwixt, hither, prithee
- archaic adverbsanon, betimes, ere, erstwhile, forsooth
- formal adverbsaccordingly, consequently, furthermore, hence, hereby
- formal wordshereby, herein, thereof, thereby, whereby
- Old English Wordsthee, thou, thy, thine, hence
- old time wordsfortnight, twelvemonth, yore, erstwhile, ere
hithertohenceforth
From this time onward
henceforward · hereafter · thenceforth · thenceforward · thereafter
- hither and thitherIn various directions