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. Mike DelPrete:

   If Zillow is able to count each of those people as a customer, they'll win, and for those people, some of them want an instant sale, some are kicking the tires, some want to sell the traditional way. It's like going to their kitchen table and saying,' What do you want ? To list your house, do an instant offer, get a broker ? It's empowering consumers.

2. William James:

   The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

3. 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.

4. David Nutt:

   We've never had drugs before with an instant effect. This could create a paradigm shift to help people into a different state of thinking that they can then stay in.

5. Maurice Wilkes:

   As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.