yesterday
Twenty-four hours past
Yesterday is the day before today.
It also refers to the recent past more broadly: Yesterday's technology is today's landfill.
As an adverb, it means on that day: I saw her yesterday.
Born yesterday suggests naïveté: I wasn't born yesterday—I know what you're up to.
Recalling past experiences
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- bittersweetWistful yet warm
fondness · sentimental · melancholy · homesickness · pining · reverie · reflection · retrospection
Memory retrieval act
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- reminisceRecall past experiences fondly
- rememberRetain in mind
recollect · forget · hazy · vivid · blur · fading · fresh · clear
Occurring before another
preceding · former · eve · foregoing · recent · overnight · freshly · lately
No longer in use
- obsoleteNo longer in use
- outmodedNo longer in fashion
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- datedOld-fashioned or courted
passé · stale · behind-the-times · superseded · irrelevant · forgotten · discarded · abandoned
history
Record of past events
yore · then · once · formerly · previously · ago · elapsed · expired · passed · gone
reminiscence
Recalling past experiences
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
bittersweet · fondness · sentimental · melancholy · homesickness · pining · reverie · reflection · retrospection · recollection
recall
Memory retrieval act
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- reminisceRecall past experiences fondly
remember · recollect · forget · hazy · vivid · blur · fading · fresh · clear · distinct
previous
Occurring before another
before · preceding · former · eve · foregoing · recent · overnight · freshly · lately · newly
outdated
No longer in use
- obsoleteNo longer in use
- outmodedNo longer in fashion
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
dated · passé · stale · behind-the-times · superseded · irrelevant · forgotten · discarded · abandoned · relic
yesterdaytoday
This present day
now · the present · the here and now · right now · currently
- born yesterdayExtremely naive and credulous
- yesterday's newsInformation no longer current
- not born yesterday
- like yesterdayVery recently recalled
- day before yesterdayTwo sunrises ago
- remember like it was yesterdayRecollect with startling clarity