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Synonyms for instant
ˈɪn stəntin·stant
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
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"
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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, twinklingAntonyms:
beseeching, past, imploring, pleading, future, slowmoment, minute, second, instantadjective
a particular point in time
"the moment he arrived the party began"
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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, minuteAntonyms:
imploring, beseeching, pleading, past, future, slowinstantaneous, instant(a)adjective
occurring with no delay
"relief was instantaneous"; "instant gratification"
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pleading, imploring, slow, beseeching, past, futureinstant, instadjective
in or of the present month
"your letter of the 10th inst"
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exigent, clamant, inst, instantaneous, insistent, crying, instant(a)Antonyms:
past, imploring, pleading, future, slow, beseechingclamant, 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, instAntonyms:
pleading, future, beseeching, slow, imploring, past
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
instantadjective
Synonyms:
pressing, urgent, importunate, earnestinstantadjective
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immediate, quick, instantaneousinstantadjective
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current, present, now passinginstantnoun
Synonyms:
moment, second, twinkling, flash, trice, jiffy, twinkling of an eye, smallest conceivable point of timeinstantnoun
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present month, current month
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "instant":
instantaneous, snapshot, immediate, snapshots, moment, instantly, hair-trigger, at-a-glance, momentary, present, minute, snap
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#90 | s | |
#486 | second | |
#805 | present | |
#982 | bit | |
#1118 | hour | |
#1174 | flash | |
#1647 | min | |
#1975 | sec | |
#1981 | minute | |
#2189 | mo | |
#2219 | rank | |
#2258 | moment | |
#2780 | import | |
#2783 | instant | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3122 | immediate | |
#3843 | pulse | |
#3887 | flashing | |
#4253 | gross | |
#5875 | instantly | |
#7321 | snap | |
#7824 | snapshot | |
#8419 | consequence | |
#9635 | endorsement | |
#9730 | blink | |
#10209 | crying | |
#11479 | inst | |
#13587 | irregular | |
#14938 | repetitive | |
#16217 | snapshots | |
#16626 | wink | |
#16632 | flare | |
#18435 | heartbeat | |
#23765 | newsflash | |
#23870 | instantaneous | |
#26101 | blatant | |
#27279 | blinking | |
#29869 | fanfare | |
#33406 | momentary | |
#34115 | glaring | |
#39188 | exacting | |
#40632 | jiffy | |
#43354 | egregious | |
#48204 | trice | |
#52223 | flagrant | |
#54185 | twinkling | |
#54498 | insistent | |
#65430 | winking | |
#67373 | secondment | |
#69206 | strident | |
#71655 | pulsation | |
#80417 | exigent | |
#94339 | vociferous | |
#111166 | newsbreak | |
#118932 | ostentation | |
#166315 | indorsement | |
#167145 | clamorous | |
#168884 | arcsecond | |
#206655 | flashbulb | |
#240368 | flashgun | |
#314059 | photoflash |
How to use instant in a sentence?
For the business aspect of Instant Detect, we're really just using it for conservation purposes, so we'll roll it out to two different sites for anti-poaching or for remote monitoring. A lot of that will be through grant funded, but also we may sell additional systems to four conservation uses, we want to bring in new transmission methods.
Yesterday, at the same reading, I suddenly heard a word that sounded like "Papulya". I nearly burst into sobs. Again -- this is not a hallucination because the word was pronounced, the voice was similar, and I did not doubt for an instant that my daughter, who was supposed to be in Tobolsk, was talking to me ...
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
If there isn’t clear view down the line, maybe we need to install a camera for that, it was more like a millimeter off the base. ... That’s not what instant replay’s designed for.
Amy Klobuchar is an absolute no-go, a black woman would give him an instant boost.
Translations for instant
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- لَحْظةArabic
- moment, instantní, okamžikCzech
- øjeblikDanish
- dieses Monats, dringend, Moment, fertig-, augenblicklich, vorübergehend, Augenblick, instant, bevorstehend, momentan, hujusGerman
- στιγμήGreek
- momentoEsperanto
- instante, momentoSpanish
- pika-, [[tämän]] [[kuun]], pikaruoka, hetkellinen, hetki, pikakahvi, välitön, kiireellinenFinnish
- instantané, instantFrench
- mòmaid, grad, priobadhScottish Gaelic
- רגעHebrew
- pillanatHungarian
- attimo, istante, immediatoItalian
- 瞬時の, 急ぎの, インスタント, 差し迫った, 即席の, 即席, 今月, 緊急の, インスタントの, 火急の, 切迫した, 瞬間, その場で決めたJapanese
- moment, ogenblikkelijk, ogenblik, kant-en-klaar, dringend, poosje, onmiddelijk, kortstondigDutch
- instantâneo, instante, instantâneaPortuguese
- instantRomanian
- мгнове́ние, моме́нт, предстоя́щий, безотлага́тельный, сро́чный, настоя́тельный, раствори́мый, неме́дленный, теку́щийRussian
- omedelbar, ögonblick, ögonblickligSwedish
- sasaSwahili
- உடனடிTamil
- an, hazırTurkish
- فوریUrdu
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