THESAURUS
gone
ablated, absconded, absent, ago, all
gone, all in, anemic, annihilated, antiquated, antique, asleep, asleep in Jesus, asthenic, at rest, away, beat, beat up, beaten, bereft of life, beyond recall, beyond remedy, big, bloodless, blown over, bone-weary, breathless, burnt up, bushed, by, by the board, bygone, bypast, called home, carrion, chicken, consumed, cowardly, croaked, cureless, dated, dead, dead and buried, dead and
gone, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, death-struck, debilitated, deceased, defunct, deleted, demised, departed, departed this life, depleted, destitute of life, disappeared, dissipated, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done for, done in, done up, down the drain, drained, drooping, droopy, dull, eaten up, effete, elapsed, eroded, etiolated, exanimate, exhausted, expectant, expecting, expended, expired, extinct, fagged out, faint, faintish, fallen, feeble, finished, flabby, flaccid, floppy, food for worms, forfeit, forfeited, forgotten,
gone away,
gone glimmering,
gone off,
gone to glory,
gone west,
gone-by, grand, gutless, had it, has-been, heavy, imbecile, immedicable, impotent, impoverished, inanimate, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, kaput, kaputt, knocked out, lacking, languid, languorous, lapsed, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, left, lifeless, limber, limp, listless, long-lost, lost, lost to, lost to sight, lost to view, lustless, marrowless, martyred, missing, nerveless, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, obsolete, omitted, out of sight, out the window, over, parturient, passe, passed, passed away, passed on, past, past and
gone, past hope, past praying for, perished, pithless, played out, pooped, pooped out, powerless, prostrate, pushing up daisies, ready to drop, released, remediless, reposing, resting easy, rubbery, ruined, run out, sainted, sapless, shrunken, sinewless, slack, sleeping, smitten with death, soft, spent, spineless, squandered, still, stillborn, strengthless, subtracted, taken away, taken off, terminal, tired out, tired to death, tuckered out, undone, unhardened, unmitigable, unnerved, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, unstrung, used, used up, vanished, wanting, washed-up, wasted, weak, weakly, weary unto death, whacked, wiped out, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, worn away, worn-out, wound up
ROGET THESAURUS
gone
Inexistence
N
inexistence, nonexistence, nonsubsistence, nonentity, nil, negativeness, nullity, nihility, nihilism, tabula rasa, blank, abeyance, absence, no such thing, nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion, annihilation, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration, inexistent, nonexistent, negative, blank, missing, omitted, absent, insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary, unreal, potential, virtual, baseless, in nubibus, unsubstantial, vain, unborn, uncreated, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade, perished, annihilated extinct, exhausted,
gone, lost, vanished, departed,
gone with the wind, defunct, fabulous, ideal, supposititious &c, negatively, virtually, non ens.
The Past
N
the past, past time, days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days
gone by, times
gone by, bygone days, old times, ancient times, former times, fore time, the good old days, the olden time, good old time, auld lang syne, eld, antiquity, antiqueness, status quo, time immemorial, distance of time, remote age, remote time, remote past, rust of antiquity, paleontology, paleography, paleology, paleozoology, palaetiology, archaeology, paleogeography, paleoecology, paleobotany, paleoclimatoogy, archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism, paleography, retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory, laudator temporis acti, medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite, antiquary, antiquarian, archmologist, Oldbuck, Dryasdust, ancestry, past,
gone,
gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone, elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return,
gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable, obsolete, former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant, late, ancestral, foregoing, last, latter, recent, over night, preterperfect, preterpluperfect, looking back, retrospective, retroactive, archaeological, paleo-, archaeo-, formerly, of old, of yore, erst, whilom, erewhile, time was, ago, over, in the olden time, anciently, long ago, long since, a long while, a long time ago, years ago, yesteryear, ages ago, some time ago, some time since, some time back, yesterday, the day before yesterday, last year, ultimo, lately, retrospectively, ere now, before now, till now, hitherto, heretofore, no longer, once, once upon a time, from time immemorial, from prehistoric times, in the memory of man, time out of mind, already, yet, up to this time, ex post facto, time was, the time has been, the time hath been, you can't go home again, fuimus Troes, fruit Ilium, hoc erat in more majorum, O call back yesterday, bid time return, tempi passati, the eternal landscape of the past, ultimus Romanorum, what's past is prologue, whose yesterdays look backward with a smile, Time with reference to a particular period.
Absence
N
absence, inexistence, nonresidence, absenteeism, nonattendance, alibi, emptiness, void, vacuum, vacuity, vacancy, tabula rasa, exemption, hiatus, lipotype, truant, absentee, nobody, nobody present, nobody on earth, not a soul, ame qui vive, absent, not present, away, nonresident,
gone, from home, missing, lost, wanting, omitted, nowhere to be found, inexistence, empty, void, vacant, vacuous, untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited, tenantless, barren, sterile, desert, deserted, devoid, uninhabitable, without, minus, nowhere, elsewhere, neither here nor there, in default of, sans, behind one's back, the bird has flown, non est inventus, absence makes the heart grow fonder, absent in body but present in spirit, absento nemo ne nocuisse velit, Achilles absent was Achilles still, aux absents les os, briller par son absence, conspicuous by his absence, in the hope to meet shortly again and make our abs.
Hopelessness
N
hopelessness, despair, desperation, despondency, depression, pessimism, pessimist, Job's comforter, bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen, abandonment, desolation, resignation, surrender, submission, hope deferred, dashed hopes, vain expectation, airy hopes &c, forlorn hope,
gone case, dead duck,
gone coon, goner, bad job, bad business, enfant perdu, gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon, slough of Despond, cave of Despair, immedicabile vulnus, hopeless, desperate, despairing,
gone, in despair, au desespoir, forlorn, desolate, inconsolable, broken hearted, unpromising, unpropitious, inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over, out of the question, not to be thought of, impracticable, past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall, at one's last gasp, given up, given over, incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy, incorrigible, irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable, ruined, undone, immitigable, lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate, its days are numbered, the worst come to the worst, no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure, O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, mene mene tekel upharson.
Death
N
death, decease, demise, dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall, loss, bereavement, mortality, morbidity, end of life &c, cessation of life &c, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life, death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed, stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death, last breath, last gasp, last agonies, dying day, dying breath, dying agonies, chant du cygne, rigor mortis, Stygian shore, King of terrors, King Death, Death, doom, Hell's grim Tyrant, euthanasia, break up of the system, natural death, natural decay, sudden death, violent death, untimely end, watery grave, debt of nature, suffocation, asphyxia, fatal disease, death blow, necrology, bills of mortality, obituary, death song, dead, lifeless, deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct, late,
gone, no more, exanimate, inanimate, out of the world, taken off, released, departed this life, dead and
gone, dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits, launched into eternity,
gone to one's eternal reward,
gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead, dying, moribund, morient, hippocratic, in articulo, in extremis, in the jaws of death, in the agony of death, going off, aux abois, one one's last legs, on one's death bed, at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp, near one's end, given over, booked, with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave, stillborn, mortuary, deadly, post obit, post mortem, life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread, one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed, Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face, the breath is out of the body, the grave closes over one, sic itur ad astra, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, honesta mors turpi vita potior, in adamantine chains shall death be bound, mors ultima linea rerum est, ominia mors aequat, Spake the grisly Terror, the lone couch of this everlasting sleep, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Disappearance
N
disappearance, evanescence, eclipse, occultation, departure, exit, vanishing point, dissolving views, disappearing, evanescent, missing, lost, lost to sight, lost to view,
gone, Int, vanish!, disappear!, avaunt!, get lost!, get out of here.
