Instant
[n] a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"
[n] a very short time (as the time it takes to blink once); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
[adj] demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"
[adj] in or of the present month; "your letter of the 10th inst"
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Synonyms
blink of an eye, clamant, crying, exigent, flash, imperative, insistent, inst, jiffy, minute, moment, New York minute, present(a), second, split second, trice, twinkling, wink
Related Terms
a breath, about to be, actual, acute, alert, already in sight, approaching, apt, as is, at hand, being, bit, breath, breathing, brewing, burning, clamant, clamorous, close, close at hand, coming, compelling, contemporaneous, contemporary, coup, crack, cri