sometime

1. 1.

   at some indefinite or unstated time

   “let's get together sometime”

   “everything has to end sometime”

   “It was to be printed sometime later”

Other forms of sometime

comparative

sometimer·

superlative

sometimest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sometime

What does sometime mean?

sometime means "belonging to some prior time". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sometime?

sometime has 2 syllables: somet-ime. The stress falls on "somet". In IPA it is /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/.

What is another word for sometime?

Close synonyms include erstwhile, former, old, onetime, one-time. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sometime a common word?

sometime is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sometime?

30 words rhyme with sometime. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.