Preterit

Definition:

• (a.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
• (a.) Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
• (n.) The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

Compare preterit with other words:

preterist vs. preterit

preterit vs. pretermit

premerit vs. preterit

preterit vs. preterite