beyond
The unknown.
Adverb
- Farther along or away.
- next year and beyond
- In addition; more.
- extremely, more than
- 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. - 2009,...
- Marvel release stirring new set images of Black Panther and we are BEYOND excited [title] - 2017 July 13, Joseph Gamp, “Marvel release stirring new set images of Black Panther and we are BEYOND excited”, in Metro:
- “We are BEYOND not ready for climate change,” Mark Levine, a City Council representative, declared on Twitter. - 2021 September 1, Michael Levenson, Anne Barnard, quoting Mark Levine, “Scenes from New York City as Ida...
Synonyms: acutely awfully almighty badly beyond damn drastically exceedingly extraordinarily highly hugely immensely indecently insanely intensely jolly mightily murrain severely strikingly terribly very much violently wicked
Origin
Etymology tree Old English beġeondan Middle English biyonde English beyond From Middle English biyonde, from Old English beġeondan, from be- + ġeond; related to yonder.
Noun
- The unknown.
- The hereafter.
- Something that is far beyond.
- 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...
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Preposition
- Further away than.
- On the far side of.
- 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...
- Later than; after.
- Greater than; so as to exceed or surpass.
- 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. - 2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 55:
- In addition to; supplementing.
- She had no reason for the conviction beyond the very inadequate one that she had seen him around London.
- Past, or out of reach of.
- 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...
- Not within the comprehension of.
- He understood geometry well, but algebraic topology was beyond him.
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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