What is the difference between tomorrow and yesterday?
tomorrow | yesterday | Antonyms |
On the day after the present day.
The day immediately before today; one day ago.
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)
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, passage=Yesterday , upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}
The (recent) past, often disparaging.
* 1606 (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth) , 5.5
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
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As soon as possible
Yesterday is a coordinate term of tomorrow.
Yesterday is a antonym of tomorrow.
As adverbs the difference between tomorrow and yesterday
is that tomorrow is on the day after the present day while yesterday is on the day before today.As nouns the difference between tomorrow and yesterday
is that tomorrow is the day after the present day while yesterday is the day immediately before today; one day ago.tomorrow
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Adverb
(-)Antonyms
* yesterdayDerived terms
* tomorrow is another day * tomorrow nightSynonyms
* morrowAntonyms
* yesterdaySee also
* last night * nudiustertian * overmorrow * today * tonight * yesterday 1000 English basic words English pro-forms English temporal location adverbs English words prefixed with to-yesterday
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Noun
(en noun)- All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday , of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}