Words Like PRETERIT

We have put together a list of words that are similar to PRETERIT.

2 Alternative Words Similar to preterit

1 Preterite Noun Synonym Words Like Preterite

2 Past Noun Synonym Words Like Past

6 definitions of preterit

1 Bygone; past.

2 In grammar, expressing past time; past: applied especially to the tense which expresses past action or existence simply, without further implication as to continuousness, etc.: as, wrote is the preterit tense of write.

3 Time past; the past.

4 In grammar, the tense which signifies past time, or which expresses action or being as simply past or finished. Abbreviated preterit

5 Alternative form of preterite.

6 a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense

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