Obsolete Words

noun a state of disuse or inactivity

• The law fell into desuetude after not being enforced for many years.
• The tradition of wearing hats to church has fallen into desuetude.
• No one really uses that slang term anymore, it's in desuetude.
• His once popular music career has now faded into desuetude.

noun A noun is a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea. In this case, 'yester' is not a noun.

adjective An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. 'Yester' is an adjective when used to describe something from the previous day, as in 'yesterday'.

adverb An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. 'Yester' is not an adverb.

• The meeting scheduled for yester afternoon had to be rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances.
• I ran into Sarah at the store yester and we caught up on old times.
• I totally forgot about that party yester, my bad!
• The mistakes of yester should not dictate our actions today.