Antonyms for history
ˈhɪs tə ri, ˈhɪs trihis·to·ry

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. historynoun

   The aggregate of past events.

   Synonyms:
   past

2. historynoun

   A record or narrative description of past events.

   Synonyms:
   account, chronicle, story, tale

3. historynoun

   The list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

   Synonyms:
   medical history

4. historynoun

   Synonyms:
   log

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. history

   History is a systematic record of past events. Annals and chronicles relate events with little regard to their relative importance, and with complete subserviency to their succession in time. Annals are yearly records; chronicles follow the order of time. Both necessarily lack emphasis, selection, and perspective. Archives are public records, which may be annals, or chronicles, or deeds of property, etc. Memoirs generally record the lives of individuals or facts pertaining to individual lives. A biography is distinctively a written account of one person's life and actions; an autobiography is a biography written by the person whose life it records. Annals, archives, chronicles, biographies, and memoirs and other records furnish the materials of history. History recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of interest or importance. History is usually applied to such an account of events affecting communities and nations, tho sometimes we speak of the history of a single eminent life. Compare RECORD.

   See synonyms for FICTION.

   Synonyms:
   account, annals, archives, autobiography, biography, chronicle, memoir, memorial, muniment, narration, narrative, recital, record, register, story

Matched Categories

1. • Cognition
   • Continuum
   • Humanistic Discipline
   • Past

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. historynoun

   the aggregate of past events

   "a critical time in the school's history"

   Synonyms:
   account, chronicle, story

2. history, account, chronicle, storynoun

   a record or narrative description of past events

   "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"

   Synonyms:
   score, tarradiddle, account, narrative, chronicle, tale, storey, report, fib, story, business relationship, news report, account statement, explanation, taradiddle, bill, write up, invoice, floor, accounting, narration, level

3. historynoun

   the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings

   "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"

   Synonyms:
   account, chronicle, story

4. historynoun

   the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future

   "all of human history"

   Synonyms:
   account, chronicle, story

5. historynoun

   all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge

   "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"

   Synonyms:
   account, chronicle, story

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. historynoun

   Synonyms:
   annals, chronicle, record, account, biography, autobiography

   Associated words:
   historic, historicity, historian, historiology, historiography, clio, prehistoric

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. future

   history is record of the past so the opposite of the past would be the future

   Submitted by acronimous on September 7, 2014  

How to use history in a sentence?

1. John Lewis:

   You can not stop the call of history, you may use troopers. You may fire hoses and water. But it can not be stopped. There can not be any turning back. We've come too far, made too much progress to stop now or to go back. The world is seeing what is happening.

2. Bernard Weisberger, America Afire:

   While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities.

3. Steve Halloran:

   It's become abundantly clear with the history of Congress that they have no sense of limiting their spending and the accrued debt that's happening upon our nation.

4. Don Rosenberg:

   The bottom line is that the public was sold a lie, getting a license does not mean you will get insurance and what little history there is says that most don’t.

5. David Lowenherz:

   There's such a story behind the history of the boat and the people who were in it and how their lives were affected by the event.

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