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. Marc Wilkins:

   When I sit down with a baseball player, major or minor, they usually know about my background. It offers instant credibility.

2. Ervin Smolinski:

   Every month, I buy some instant tickets and send them as gifts to family members who have birthdays that month, it’s turned into a bit of a tradition, and now everyone sends me scratch offs and chocolate for my birthday.

3. Heidi Snow:

   This is a lifelong journey. ... I feel so blessed that I've been given the opportunity to be with these incredible people who come forward and volunteer their time, they really look at life differently because they start to realize how precious it is and how life can change in an instant.

4. Marcus Aurelius:

   Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.

5. Jack Biltis:

   By accepting cryptocurrencies, you can do it for pennies and at the same time you can transfer money, really, in almost an instant amount of time, so, this new technology is absolutely going to replace what we have now with our inefficient credit cards and banking systems.