up to now

Questions about up to now

What does up to now mean?

up to now means "used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for up to now?

Close synonyms include so far, thus far, hitherto, heretofore, as yet. 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 up to now a common word?

up to now is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.