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

1. adjective. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.
2. adjective. Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.
3. adjective. Present; current.
4. adverb. Instantly.
5. adjective. A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment.
6. adjective. 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, a., 3.
7. noun. a particular point in time

   "the moment he arrived the party began"

   Synonyms: minute, moment, second

8. noun. 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: flash, heartbeat, jiffy, trice, twinkling, wink

9. adjective. demanding attention- H.L.Mencken

   "clamant needs"

   "a crying need"

   Synonyms: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent

10. adjective. occurring with no delay

    "relief was instantaneous"

    "instant gratification"

    Synonyms: instantaneous

11. adjective. in or of the present month

    "your letter of the 10th inst"

    Synonyms: inst

Synonyms

minute, moment, second, flash, heartbeat, jiffy, trice, twinkling, wink, clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instantaneous, inst

Common word forms

instants, instanter, instantly, instantness

Words from these letters

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