Current
Current adjective - Being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles.
Usage example: current therapies for treating cancer have success rates that were undreamed of only a few decades ago
Past
Past adjective - Having been such at some previous time.
Usage example: a past editor of the newspaper
How words are described
| actual | actual current | actual past |
| new | new current | new past |
| horrifying | horrifying current | horrifying past |
| military | military current | military past |
| Other adjectives: mysterious, alternate, different, said. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Resident Evil: Revelations 2 does the same as Revelations where you play past and current events, only instead you can actually switch between characters.
- Depiction of a number of debilitating diseases such as AIDS and cancer (trigger for people who are either current or past sufferers, or people who know/knew someone who has)
Source: Useful Notes / Trigger - Gossip — We don't care about anyone's current or past legal troubles, their personal habits, their sex lives, their political affiliation, etc.
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Past and Current. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/current/past
Current & Past. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/current/past>.
Past or Current. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/current/past.
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