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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"
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, 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
Synonyms:
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?
If you'd asked me yesterday what I thought the timeline would be of Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO, I would not have guessed now. But if you'd said,' Okay, Jeff Bezos's stepping down, who will Jeff Bezos choose ?' the first, instant name out of my mouth would be Andy Jassy, i watched Andy Jassy blossom into this beautiful complimentary executive to Jeff Bezos, where Andy Jassy learned to anticipate the questions Jeff Bezos would ask, the things Jeff Bezos would hate, the things Jeff Bezos would love, Jeff Bezos leadership style.
I immediately talked back to my rope guy and told him give me some slack on the line, it was an instant thing. Turned around. We grabbed him.
My heart goes out to the families of both Kern County Sheriff Deputies. Nothing can prepare us for tragedies such as these, in an instant our lives can change forever. I pray that God surrounds these families with his love and gives them the strength to make it through this devastating time.
We need instant, really strong fire, otherwise, I think it will kill the business.
No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!
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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