instant
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From French instant and Middle English instant, both from Old French, from Latin instans (“standing by, being near, present, also urgent, importunate”), present participle of instō (“to stand upon, press upon, urge, pursue, insist”), from in (“on, upon”) + stō (“to stand”); see state.
Inflected forms:
form: instaunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: instaunt
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Impending; imminent.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: Impending death is thine, and instant doom.
gloss: Urgent; pressing; acute.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
gloss: Insistent; persistent.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.
January 2, 1827, Thomas Carlyle, letter to Mrs. Carlyle, Scotsbrig
I am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation.
gloss: Present; current; extant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He received just two disciplinary reports prior to committing the instant offense, one in March 2019 for activating an alarm during a non-emergency situation, and one in May 2019 for failing to provide a urine specimen.
gloss: Occurring immediately; immediate; present.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I ſee no day to To day, the inſtant Time is alvvayes the fitteſt time.
No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.
Gone are all the days of instant romance / And the nights of slow goodbyes / It was a time of life when foxy was the dance / And then you got wise to all of my abilis
As the body count rose, Tarrant quickly became a hero who had achieved a “new high score,” surpassing the former record holder Seung-Hui Cho of Virginia Tech. Tarrant attained instant cult status in the community.
gloss: Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Very quickly and easily prepared.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: instant coffee; instant noodles; instant mashed potato; instant photo
gloss: Of the current month.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: I refer to your letter of the 16th instant in regard to traffic disruption.
Vice-Admiral Kamimura reports that at dawn of the 14th instant, our squadron found, off Ulsan, the south-eastern coast of Corea, three ships of the Vladivostock squadron steaming southward.
I have maturely reflected on the subject of your letter of the 18th instant; and the more I have reflected the more I have become convinced, that I could not, without manifest impropriety, make the avowal or disavowal which you seem to think necessary.
gloss: At once; immediately.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
poetic
examples: He left the room for his relinquished sword, / And Julia instant to the closet flew.
Related words: instakill
instance
Derived words: iBuyer
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Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: спешен
roman: spešen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 紧急的
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 紧迫的
lang: Dutch
word: dringend
lang: Dutch
word: ogenblikkelijk
lang: Finnish
word: välitön
lang: Finnish
word: kiireellinen
lang: German
word: dringend
lang: Hungarian
word: sürgős
lang: Hungarian
word: sürgető
lang: Irish
word: práinneach
lang: Japanese
word: 急ぎの
roman: isogi no
lang: Japanese
word: 火急の
roman: kakyū no
lang: Japanese
word: 緊急の
roman: kinkyū no
lang: Romanian
word: urgent
lang: Russian
word: сро́чный
roman: sróčnyj
lang: Russian
word: настоя́тельный
roman: nastojátelʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: безотлага́тельный
roman: bezotlagátelʹnyj
lang: Turkish
word: acil