sometime
Adjective Satellite
- belonging to some prior time
Adverb
- At an unspecified point in time, past or future.
- at some indefinite or unstated time
- "let's get together sometime"
- "everything has to end sometime"
- "It was to be printed sometime later"
Adv
- At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
- Sometimes.
- At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.
Adj
- Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
- Occasional; intermittent.
Examples
- an author and sometime lecturer
- I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening.
- It happened sometime yesterday.
- my sometime friend and mentor
- Sometime soon, he hoped to achieve a perfect 800-point Words With Friends game.
- This will certainly happen sometime in the future.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.
Synonyms
erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, at one time, at some point, at some time, drekly, earlier, ex-, formerly, in the past, other, previous, sometime, somewhen, somewhere along the line, whenevs
Antonyms
at this point in time
Scrabble Score: 12
sometime: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsometime: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sometime: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary