current
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kə′rĕnt
note: Indic
ipa: /kəˈrɛɳʈ/
enpr: kŭr′ənt
homophone: currant
rhymes: -ʌɹənt
ipa: /ˈkʌɹ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈkʌɹ.ɪnt/
note: hurry–furry merger
enpr: kûr′ənt
homophone: courant (with both the hurry–furry merger and cure–fir merger)
ipa: /ˈkɝ.ɪnt/
ipa: /ˈkɝ.ənt/
Forms: form: currenter
form: more current
form: currentest
form: most current
Etymology: From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere (“to run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.
Senses: examples: text: current events
text: current leaders
text: current negotiations
text: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref: 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
synonyms: word: present
word: contemporary
word: current
word: hodiern
word: modern
word: present
word: present-day
antonyms: future
past
glosses: Existing or occurring at the moment.
examples: text: current affairs
text: current bills and coins
text: current fashions
text: That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
ref: 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:
text: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
synonyms: word: fashionable
word: prevailing
word: prevalent
word: rife
word: up-to-date
word: a la mode/à la mode
word: all the rage
word: chic
word: cool
word: dapper
word: done
word: elegant
word: fashionable
word: groovy
word: happening
word: hep
word: hip
word: in
word: in fashion
word: jaunty
word: modish
word: natty
word: on fleek
word: on trend
word: pizazzy
word: spiffing
word: spiffy
word: styleworthy
word: stylish
word: smart
word: snazzy
word: tasteful
word: tippy
word: trendy
word: voguish
word: up-to-the-minute
word: with-it
word: zhoosh
antonyms: word: out-of-date
word: unfashionable
word: fashionable
glosses: Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment; having currency.
examples: text: current bill
text: current shock
text: In April and May this year, the average daily current consumption dropped to 55 MU[…]Compared to household electricity charges, the current unit charge used by commercial companies is higher.[…]Electricity consumption is generally higher in summer as compared to monsoon and winter. The use of ACs will increase not only in homes but also in commercial establishments and current consumption will increase.
ref: 2021 June 13, Ravali Hymavathi, “Telangana: Even The TSSPDCL Is Facing Heavy Losses Due To Covid-19”, in The Hans India:
glosses: Electric; of or relating to electricity.
examples: text: For here we met, some ten or twelve of us, / To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 114:
synonyms: speeding
glosses: Running or moving rapidly.
Derived terms: cocurrent
current account
current affairs
current asset
current events
current liability
currently
currentness
current ratio
current thing
current year
discurrent
noncurrent
price current
uncurrent