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beyond

beyond

84 1.0
Further than a given point in space, time, or level
  • adverb
  • /bɪˈjɑnd/
translation icon : más allá de
  • And we'll go, you know, way beyond what we can imagine.
  • go beyond
  • beyond his years
  • decade and beyond

Examples

  • The effects of climate change will extend beyond the next generation.

  • They don't feel that it's worth fighting for beyond the current circumstances.

  • Maybe we're just beyond that as a culture.

  • And I would say beyond that, there are many of you.

  • Whatever lay beyond would not be known to me

  • Students in upper elementary school and beyond are expected to read a variety of texts.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The research establishing this relation in elementary school and beyond is substantial.

    Academic text (2008)
  • And the implications for this go far beyond just Melville's work.

  • Successful organizations of the nineties and beyond must tap the resources, talents, and skills of all employees.

    Academic text (1992)
  • And often, what you'll find is beyond your wildest dreams.

Antonyms

1.0

Inside an agreed place, time, or limit and not beyond it

Idioms

14 6.2

So beautiful or moving that you cannot describe it

beyond the pale
  • Informal
12 9.1

Morally and socially wrong to most people

Being more mature and wiser than other people the same age

Completely certain with no doubt

Completely sure with no chance of being wrong

To a very great degree

4 2.8

Completely certain with no possible reason to think it is wrong

To spend more money than you can afford

Too strong to be stopped or managed

1 8.2

Something I do not have the responsibility or power to decide at work

beyond the beyonds
  • Literature
1 9.9

Far past what people can imagine or expect

1 9.9

Far from towns and cities, often in the Australian outback

More understanding or maturity than people of the same age show

Much better than you could imagine or hope for

Compounds

A place people imagine where they go after they die

1 9.8

A place far from towns and people

How Distant

beyond
84 1.0
yon
  • Archaic
9.9
over there
1.0
there
1.0
here
1.0

Surface Forms

beyond positive

Etymology

Beyond comes from be- + yond, with yond like yonder meaning 'on the other side'. So beyond can mean 'further' in space, time, or degree, as in 'beyond midnight' or 'beyond what we expected'.