Synonyms for instant
ˈɪn stəntin·stant

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. instant

   Synonyms:
   moment, second, minute, twinkling, trice, flash

   Antonyms:
   period, duration, cycle, time, permanence, perpetuity, eternity

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1. blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minutenoun

   a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

   "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"

   Synonyms:
   nictitation, second, blinking, flashbulb, pulse, flashgun, eye blink, beat, heartbeat, minute, news bulletin, moment, flash, photoflash, split second, flare, pulsation, winking, flash bulb, wink, nictation, newsbreak, flashing, newsflash, jiffy, ostentation, flash lamp, blink of an eye, blink, fanfare, trice, twinkling

   Antonyms:
   beseeching, past, imploring, pleading, future, slow

2. moment, minute, second, instantadjective

   a particular point in time

   "the moment he arrived the party began"

   Synonyms:
   endorsement, consequence, present moment, import, second, minute of arc, arcminute, second gear, s, flash, sec, secondment, min, hour, moment, indorsement, wink, twinkling, here and now, heartbeat, jiffy, mo, second base, irregular, blink of an eye, split second, trice, bit, arcsecond, minute

   Antonyms:
   imploring, beseeching, pleading, past, future, slow

3. instantaneous, instant(a)adjective

   occurring with no delay

   "relief was instantaneous"; "instant gratification"

   Antonyms:
   pleading, imploring, slow, beseeching, past, future

4. instant, instadjective

   in or of the present month

   "your letter of the 10th inst"

   Synonyms:
   exigent, clamant, inst, instantaneous, insistent, crying, instant(a)

   Antonyms:
   past, imploring, pleading, future, slow, beseeching

5. clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instantadjective

   demanding attention

   "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"

   Synonyms:
   clamant, insistent, instant(a), egregious, exigent, glaring, gross, flagrant, strident, repetitive, vociferous, crying(a), blatant, clamorous, instantaneous, exacting, rank, crying, inst

   Antonyms:
   pleading, future, beseeching, slow, imploring, past

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1. instantadjective

   Synonyms:
   pressing, urgent, importunate, earnest

2. instantadjective

   Synonyms:
   immediate, quick, instantaneous

3. instantadjective

   Synonyms:
   current, present, now passing

4. instantnoun

   Synonyms:
   moment, second, twinkling, flash, trice, jiffy, twinkling of an eye, smallest conceivable point of time

5. instantnoun

   Synonyms:
   present month, current month

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1. List of paraphrases for "instant":

   instantaneous, snapshot, immediate, snapshots, moment, instantly, hair-trigger, at-a-glance, momentary, present, minute, snap

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1. Henry Louis Mencken:

   A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.

2. Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein:

   Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

3. Henry Adams:

   You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

4. Jean-Paul Sartre:

   I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

5. Angelo Rossini:

   Instant messaging is becoming a threat to telecoms companies -- and also for social media, we definitely expect this to become the case in more and more other regions of the world.