Adv. | 1. up to now - used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time; "So far he hasn't called"; "the sun isn't up yet"as yet, heretofore, hitherto, so far, thus far, til now, until now, yet | | 2.up to now - prior to the present time; "no suspect has been found to date"to date |