present
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: prĕzʹənt
ipa: /ˈpɹɛzənt/
rhymes: -ɛzənt
enpr: prĭzĕnt'
ipa: /pɹɪˈzɛnt/
ipa: /pɹiˈzɛnt/
ipa: /pɹəˈzɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: more present
form: most present
form: præsent
form: ps.
Etymology: From Middle English present, from Old French present, from Latin praesent-, praesens, present participle of praeesse (“to be present”), from Latin prae- (“pre-”) + esse (“to be”).
Senses: examples: text: The barbaric practice continues to the present day.
text: The present manager has been here longer than the last one.
text: up to the present day
text: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Relating to now, for the time being; current.
examples: text: Only half of all present members were present at the meeting.
text: Is there a doctor present?
text: Several people were present when the event took place.
text: Being the leader, Jason is always present at class.
glosses: Located in the immediate vicinity.
examples: text: Amongſt this number of Cordials and Alteratiues, J doe not find a more preſent remedy, then a cup of wine, or ſtrong drinke, and if it be ſoberly and opportunely vſed.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Alteratiues and Corials, corroborating, reſoluing the reliques, and mending the Temperament”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 5, member 1, subsection 5:
glosses: Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
examples: text: Sign me a present pardon for my brother,
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: An ambassador[…]desires a present audience.
ref: 1636, Philip Massinger, The Bashful Lover:
glosses: Not delayed; immediate; instant.
examples: text: a present wit
glosses: Ready; quick in emergency.
examples: text: to find a god so present to my prayer
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 1”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Favorably attentive; propitious.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: this (determiner), this (pronoun), current
text: in the present study; the present article; the present results
glosses: Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.
examples: text: Sorry, I was distracted just now, I'll try to be more present from now on.
glosses: Attentive; alert; focused.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Neither for or against (used in voting to express abstention)
Synonyms: sense: relating to now
word: current
sense: in vicinity
word: close
word: nearby
word: near
sense: having an immediate effect
word: presentaneous
sense: not delayed
word: instantaneous
word: instantaneous
sense: attentive
word: audient
sense: attentive
word: heedful
sense: attentive
word: reckful
word: contemporary
word: hodiern
word: modern
word: present
word: present-day
Derived terms: word: all-present
word: all present and correct
word: at present
word: at the present time
word: omnipresent
word: present company excepted
word: presently
word: present participial
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word: copresent
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word: ever-present
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word: historical present
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word: historic present
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word: in present
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word: net present value
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word: present active participle
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word: present company excluded
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word: present conditional
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word: present continuous
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word: present historic
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word: present imperfect
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word: present indefinite
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word: present indicative
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word: present participle
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word: present perfect
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word: present perfect continuous
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word: present perfect progressive
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word: present progressive
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word: present sense impression
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word: present simple
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word: present subjunctive
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word: present system
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word: present tense
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word: present value
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word: preterite-present
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word: preterite-present verb
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word: simple present
Related terms: word: presence
word: the present
word: gift