different between bygone vs forepast

English

Etymology

From by (adverb) +? gone.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ba???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ba???n/
• Homophone: bigon (depending on the dialect)

Adjective

bygone (not comparable)

1. Having been or happened in the distant past.

Synonyms

• foregone, historical; see also Thesaurus:past

Translations

Noun

bygone (plural bygones)

1. (usually in the plural) An event that happened in the past.
   • 1881, Pearl Hyem, The fisherman's cove; or, Christianity realised (page 54)

     Jennie Fox watched it with thoughtful pleasure, and the rest were chatting and telling of bygones, enjoying a glass of egg-hot; it being a custom for them to partake of this beverage on this particular night.

Related terms

• let bygones be bygones

Translations

Anagrams

• gone by

English

Etymology

From fore- +? past.

Adjective

forepast (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:

     Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best / […] all forepast displeasures to repeale.

   • c.1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, First Folio 1623:

     Take him away, / My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall / Shall taze my feares of little vanitie, / Hauing vainly fear'd too little.

Synonyms

• (that has passed): bygone, foregone; see also Thesaurus:past

Anagrams

• Profetas, fast rope