Synonyms for Instant:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • instantaneous.
  •approaching, promising (adjective)
  • coming.
  •burning (adjective)
  • significant,
  • compelling,
  • crying,
  • critical,
  • clamorous,
  • crucial,
  • vital,
  • acute,
  • essential.
  •contemporary (adjective)
  • ultramodern,
  • with it,
  • now,
  • newfangled,
  • in vogue,
  • au courant,
  • mod,
  • recent,
  • à la mode,
  • topical,
  • red-hot,
  • up-to-date,
  • abreast,
  • new,
  • latest.
  •current (adjective)
  • trendy,
  • swinging,
  • ruling,
  • accepted,
  • regnant,
  • accustomed,
  • rampant,
  • afoot,
  • popular,
  • rife,
  • ongoing,
  • general,
  • circulating,
  • widespread,
  • modern,
  • prevailing,
  • Doing,
  • state-of-the-art,
  • fashionable,
  • customary,
  • prevalent,
  • fad,
  • in.
  •dire (adjective)
  • extreme,
  • drastic,
  • immoderate,
  • climacteric,
  • desperate.
  •exigent (adjective)
  • needful.
  •expeditious (adjective)
  • fleet,
  • most efficient,
  • more efficient,
  • more diligent.
  •extant (adjective)
  • most undestroyed,
  • re-maining,
  • more undestroyed,
  • more subsisting,
  • be-ingest,
  • be ingest,
  • beingest,
  • most around,
  • un-destroyed,
  • most subsisting,
  • un destroyed,
  • re maining,
  • Subsisting,
  • more around,
  • beinger.
  •immediate (adjective)
  • para mount,
  • most hair trigger,
  • most hairtrigger,
  • more hairtrigger,
  • most hair-trigger,
  • at moment,
  • more hair trigger,
  • more hair-trigger,
  • para-mount,
  • hair trigger,
  • hair-trigger.
  •imperative (adjective)
  • in dispensable,
  • in-dispensable.
  •importunate (adjective)
  • overly solicitous,
  • Harassing,
  • importunate.
  •instant (adjective)
  • quick,
  • present-day,
  • split-second,
  • direct,
  • existent.
  •instantaneous (adjective)
  • in flash.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • in view,
  • that will be,
  • high-priority,
  • in use,
  • immediate,
  • synchronic,
  • up-to-the-minute,
  • getting near,
  • leading-edge,
  • hurry-up,
  • imperative,
  • cutting-edge,
  • urgent,
  • gaining upon,
  • in current use,
  • undestroyed,
  • drawing near,
  • destined,
  • heat-on,
  • in progress,
  • running after,
  • in fashion,
  • wideawake,
  • on the dot,
  • contempo,
  • ultra-modern,
  • to be,
  • exigent,
  • in the offing,
  • on-the-spot,
  • contemporary,
  • at this moment,
  • hanging over,
  • voguish,
  • in prospect,
  • that is to be,
  • predesigned,
  • hairtrigger,
  • pressing,
  • at present time,
  • at once,
  • to come,
  • not lost,
  • in the wind,
  • current,
  • touch and go,
  • extant,
  • expeditious,
  • going around,
  • on hand,
  • hot off press,
  • present,
  • red hot,
  • REDHOT,
  • top-priority,
  • way the ball bounces,
  • on the button,
  • common knowledge,
  • just out,
  • life and death,
  • in store,
  • in circulation,
  • on the spot,
  • on front burner,
  • dire,
  • no turning back,
  • up to the minute,
  • in the news,
  • in the cards,
  • today,
  • in the mainstream.
  •prepared (adjective)
  • ready-made.
  •present (adjective)
  • in process,
  • for the time being,
  • nowadays,
  • under consideration,
  • even now,
  • in duration,
  • just now.
  •present-day (adjective)
  • present day,
  • presentday.
  •pressing (adjective)
  • most hurryup,
  • ex-acting,
  • hurry up,
  • high priority,
  • most heaton,
  • most highpriority,
  • hurryup,
  • heat on,
  • heaton,
  • most heat on,
  • more hurry up,
  • most heat-on,
  • more claiming,
  • more hurry-up,
  • more heaton,
  • more heat-on,
  • most high-priority,
  • more high priority,
  • highpriority,
  • more highpriority,
  • more hurryup,
  • re-quiring,
  • most forcing,
  • re quiring,
  • most hurry-up,
  • more heat on,
  • most claiming,
  • more forcing,
  • ex acting,
  • most hurry up,
  • more high-priority,
  • most high priority.
  •prompt (adjective)
  • un-hesitating,
  • un hesitating,
  • wide awake,
  • on button,
  • on dot.
  •ready-made (adjective)
  • off-the-rack,
  • readymade,
  • ready-to-wear,
  • prefabricated.
  •snappy (adjective)
  • most on-the-spot,
  • more harefooted,
  • most harefooted,
  • more on the spot,
  • harefooted,
  • more on-the-spot,
  • un-premeditated,
  • snappy,
  • most on the spot.
  •synchronic (adjective)
  • co-existent,
  • co existent.
  •urgent (adjective)
  • re-quired,
  • top priority,
  • life death,
  • calledfor,
  • more calledfor,
  • more called-for,
  • most demanded,
  • more demanded,
  • most called for,
  • fore most,
  • more called for,
  • more toppriority,
  • fore-most,
  • wanted,
  • most top priority,
  • toppriority,
  • most toppriority,
  • most top-priority,
  • re quired,
  • most called-for,
  • more impelling,
  • touch go,
  • most calledfor,
  • more top priority,
  • more top-priority,
  • most impelling.

• adv

  •Other relevant words: (adverb)
  • contiguously,
  • Instanter,
  • in a second,
  • straight off,
  • straightaway.

• adv.

  •Other relevant words: (adverb)
  • right off.
  •right off (adverb)
  • in second.

• n.

  •
  • straight,
  • headlong,
  • suddenly,
  • straight away,
  • right now,
  • promptly.
  •
  • a bit,
  • twinkle,
  • bout,
  • big.
  •
  • crispy,
  • chewy,
  • cream,
  • chilled,
  • calorific,
  • cool,
  • caramelized,
  • buttery,
  • crisp.
  •bit (noun)
  • space.
  •blink of an eye (noun)
  • blink of an eye.
  •breath (noun)
  • rest,
  • pause,
  • ten,
  • breather,
  • breathing space.
  •chance (noun)
  • occasion.
  •circumstance (noun)
  • event,
  • landmark,
  • condition,
  • happening,
  • incidence,
  • circumstance,
  • episode,
  • basis,
  • cardinal point,
  • conjuncture,
  • situation,
  • status,
  • milestone,
  • occurrence.
  •clamant (noun)
  • clamant.
  •fast (noun)
  • fast.
  •flash (noun)
  • flash.
  •immediate (noun)
  • ready-to-serve,
  • precooked,
  • prompt,
  • ready-to-eat,
  • premixed,
  • ready-to-use,
  • prepared.
  •insistent (noun)
  • insistent.
  •inst (noun)
  • inst.
  •instant (noun)
  • bat of the eye,
  • crack,
  • short while,
  • jiffy,
  • while.
  •jiff (noun)
  • out-bursts,
  • out-burst,
  • jiffs,
  • out burst,
  • out bursts.
  •juncture (noun)
  • meeting points,
  • cross roads,
  • cross road.
  •minute (noun)
  • sixtieth hour,
  • nothing flats,
  • bat eye,
  • bat of eye,
  • short times,
  • sixty second,
  • bat an eye.
  •moment (noun)
  • no times,
  • trices,
  • three wink,
  • point time.
  •now (noun)
  • here and now,
  • immediacy.
  •occasion (noun)
  • goingson,
  • goings-ons,
  • goingsons,
  • goings on,
  • goings ons.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • hour,
  • years,
  • weeks,
  • short time,
  • time,
  • minute,
  • occasions,
  • nothing flat,
  • sec,
  • week,
  • hours,
  • instant,
  • lastingness,
  • tick,
  • three winks,
  • cross-roads,
  • month,
  • MINS,
  • very minute,
  • chronology,
  • Cross-road,
  • months,
  • tappings,
  • goings-on,
  • twinkling,
  • point,
  • SECS,
  • breathings,
  • JIFF,
  • min,
  • moment,
  • spell,
  • mileposts,
  • stretch,
  • breath,
  • bat of an eye,
  • era,
  • sixty seconds,
  • Mos,
  • juncture,
  • year,
  • little while,
  • clickings,
  • sixtieth of hour,
  • wink,
  • milepost,
  • meeting point,
  • ticktock,
  • bit,
  • trice,
  • second,
  • point in time,
  • many a moon,
  • no time,
  • split second,
  • Chronologies,
  • metallic sound.
  •point (noun)
  • ex-tents,
  • de-gree,
  • ex tents,
  • de-grees,
  • de grees,
  • ex tent,
  • very minutes,
  • de gree,
  • ex-tent.
  •present (noun)
  • this day,
  • time being,
  • the time being,
  • NOWS,
  • present moment,
  • todays,
  • this time,
  • nonce,
  • nonces.
  •split second (noun)
  • micro-second,
  • microsecond,
  • nanosecond,
  • fraction of a second,
  • nanoseconds,
  • milliseconds,
  • half a second,
  • micro-seconds,
  • millisecond,
  • microseconds.
  •tick (noun)
  • metallic sounds,
  • ticktocks.
  •timelessness (noun)
  • instantaneousness,
  • timelessness.
  •without delay (noun)
  • first off.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • duration.

• Other synonyms:

  •New York minute
  • new york minute.
  •
  • eternity,
  • jag.
  •
  • short-term,
  • emergent,
  • dalliance.
  •
  • flirtation.
  •
  • burst.
  •
  • matter.
  •
  • burning.
  •
  • place.
  •prompt
  • ready.
  •without delay
  • instantly,
  • immediately,
  • right away,
  • directly,
  • forthwith.

Paraphrases for Instant:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    immediate, instantaneous.
  • Proper noun, singular
    immediate.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    immediate, instantaneous.
  • Verb, base form
    instantaneous.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    time.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    instantaneous, instantly.

• Independent

  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    snapshot.
  • Adjective
    hair-trigger, momentary, imminent, out-of-the-box, species, minute, snapshots, proximate, expeditious, forthwith.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    minute, point, forthwith.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    snapshot.
  • Proper noun, singular
    snapshots, snapshot.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    snapshot.
  • Adverb
    instantly.

Antonyms for Instant:

• adj.

  • burning
    unimportant.
  • contemporary
    old, old-fashioned, preceding, past.
  • current
    uncontemporary, uncommon, antiquated.
  • destined
    avoidable, unscheduled.
  • dire
    trivial.
  • instant
    delayed, later, late, eventual.
  • Other antonyms:
    terminated, dilatory, ended, archaic, bygone, done, pleading, stable, sluggish, obsolete, unborn, noncritical, outworn, old fashioned, incidental, dated, former, ago, minor, passe, completed, coming, antique, beseeching, prolonged, concluded, fusty, erstwhile, old-time, imploring, over, antediluvian, safe, negligible, tardy, through, up, oldfangled, musty, ancient, protracted, out-of-date, deferred, finished.