Adverb
used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
Source: WordNetSex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway. Kim Wilde
In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational. Ian McEwan
Until now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together? There have been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was coming, and so forth, but never anything like this. Ronald Reagan
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. Marshall McLuhan
Up until now I'd always thought RSI meant 'I hate my damn job. Terry Pratchett
Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she'd not noticed it until now. Clive Barker