beyond
Part of speech: prep
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English beġeondan
Middle English biyonde
English beyond
From Middle English biyonde, from Old English beġeondan, from be- + ġeond; related to yonder.
Base: ġeond
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: beyonds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Further away than.
pos: prep
gloss: On the far side of.
pos: prep
examples: No swimming beyond this point.
England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.
gloss: Later than; after.
pos: prep
gloss: Greater than; so as to exceed or surpass.
pos: prep
examples: Your staff went beyond my expectations in refunding my parking ticket.
He was a painter who was trying to get beyond painting, to escape from purely visual experience and lead his art in a more conceptual direction with a systematic approach.
gloss: In addition to; supplementing.
pos: prep
examples: She had no reason for the conviction beyond the very inadequate one that she had seen him around London.
gloss: Past, or out of reach of.
pos: prep
tags: figuratively
examples: You won't last beyond my first punch.
The patient was beyond medical help.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
The 1300 class (Nos. 1301-16), one of which was damaged beyond repair in an accident, are Co-Cos, weigh 111 tons and have a top speed of 85 m.p.h.
gloss: Not within the comprehension of.
pos: prep
tags: figuratively
examples: He understood geometry well, but algebraic topology was beyond him.
gloss: Farther along or away.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: next year and beyond
gloss: In addition; more.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: extremely, more than
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: But to then write about his allegedly fat girlfriend was beyond stupid, because by doing so he was in fact engaging a woman (me) in the “Am I fat?” discussion, which he supposedly realized he should never do.
Marvel release stirring new set images of Black Panther and we are BEYOND excited [title]
“We are BEYOND not ready for climate change,” Mark Levine, a City Council representative, declared on Twitter.
gloss: The unknown.
pos: noun
gloss: The hereafter.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that is far beyond.
pos: noun
examples: And that is perhaps why I am constantly searching for great beyonds — beyonds that will permit the application of different theoretical models (be they semiotically-inspired, gender-inspired, sexuality-inspired, and so on) beyond any disciplinary confines.
Synonyms: ayond
ayont
Antonyms: before
earlier
Related words: para-
Derived words: above and beyond
beyond a joke
beyond a reasonable doubt
beyond a shadow of a doubt
beyond a shadow of doubt
beyond belief
beyond compare
beyond comparison
beyond dispute
beyond doubt
beyondish
beyond measure
beyondness
beyond one's depth
beyond one's ken
beyond one's pay grade
beyond one's scope
beyond one's wildest dreams
beyond one's years
beyond question
beyond reasonable doubt
beyond redemption
beyond seas
beyond someone's grasp
beyond the black stump
beyond the call of duty
beyond the grave
beyond the pale
beyond the shadow of a doubt
beyondward
beyond words
beyonsense
go beyond
go beyond the pale
Little England beyond Wales
live beyond one's means
look beyond
look beyond the end of one's nose
look beyond the tip of one's nose
beyond the end of one's nose
beyond the tip of one's nose
therebeyond
wise beyond one's years
back of beyond
beyond the beyonds
great beyond
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