Dictionary Entry
instant
instant is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, adverb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.
- 2adjective
Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.
- 3adjective
Present; current.
- 4adverb
Instantly.
- 5adjective
A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment.
- 6adjective
A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant., 3.
- 7noun
a particular point in time
"the moment he arrived the party began"
- 8noun
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"
- 9adjective
demanding attention- H.L.Mencken
"clamant needs"
"a crying need"
- 10adjective
occurring with no delay
"relief was instantaneous"
"instant gratification"
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- 11adjective
in or of the present month
"your letter of the 10th inst"
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