Synonyms of the word

instant

• n. A very short period of time; a moment.
• n. A single, usually precise, point in time.
• n. A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
• n. A day of the current month (abbreviated as: inst.).
• adj. (dated) Impending; imminent.
• adj. (dated) Urgent; pressing; acute.
• adj. Occurring immediately; immediate; present.
• adj. Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived.
• adj. Very quickly and easily prepared.
• adj. Of the current month (abbreviation inst.).
• adv. (poetic) At once; immediately.

bit

• n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
• n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
• n. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British…
• n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
• n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first…
• n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly…
• n. A small amount of something.
• n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
• n. A portion of something.
• n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
• n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
• n. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
• n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
• n. The cutting iron of a plane.
• adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
• v. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
• v. simple past tense of bite.
• v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past participle of bite, bitten.
• adj. (colloquial) bitten.
• adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
• n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
• n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
• n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
• n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
• n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

clamant

• adj. Urgent.
• adj. Crying earnestly; beseeching clamorously.

crying

• adj. That demands action or attention.
• adj. That deserves rebuke or censure.
• n. Action of the verb cry.
• v. present participle of cry.

exigent

• adj. Urgent; needing immediate action.
• adj. Demanding; needing great effort.
• n. (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, law) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.

fast

• adj. (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
• adj. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
• adj. (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now only in set phrases like "fast friend".).
• adj. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
• adj. Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
• adj. (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
• adj. Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
• adj. (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or…
• adj. (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
• adj. (colloquial) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
• adj. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
• adj. (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
• adv. In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved.
• adv. (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly.
• adv. Immediately following in place or time; close, very near.
• adv. Quickly, with great speed; within a short time.
• adv. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
• n. (Britain, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination,…
• interj. (archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.
• v. (intransitive) To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things,…
• n. The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food.
• n. The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food.

flash

• v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
• v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
• v. To be visible briefly.
• v. To make visible briefly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
• v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
• v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
• v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
• v. To communicate quickly.
• v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
• v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
• v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
• v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
• v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
• v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
• v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
• n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
• n. A very short amount of time.
• n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
• n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
• n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
• n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
• n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
• n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
• n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
• adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
• adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
• n. A pool.
• n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

heartbeat

• n. One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
• n. The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
• n. A driving impulse or vital force.
• n. A very short space of time; an instant.
• n. (computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize…

imperative

• adj. essential.
• adj. (grammar) of, or relating to the imperative mood.
• adj. (computing theory) Having a semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
• adj. Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
• n. (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative…
• n. (countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood.
• n. (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.

insistent

• adj. (obsolete) Standing or resting on something.
• adj. Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
• adj. Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
• adj. (ornithology) Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so…

instantaneous

• adj. Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of…

jiffy

• n. (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time.
• n. (computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention,…
• n. (electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
• n. (physics) The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre,…

minute

• n. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
• n. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
• n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
• n. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
• n. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent…
• n. A point in time; a moment.
• n. A nautical or a geographic mile.
• n. An old coin, a half farthing.
• n. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
• n. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
• n. (slang, US, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.
• v. (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
• v. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
• adj. Very small.
• adj. Very careful and exact, giving small details.

moment

• n. A brief, unspecified amount of time.
• n. The smallest portion of time; an instant.
• n. Weight or importance.
• n. (physics, mechanics) The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the…
• n. (historical) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth…
• n. (informal) A petit mal episode; such a spell.
• n. (colloquial) A fit, a short-duration tantrum, a hissy.
• n. (mathematics) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
• n. (mathematics) A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

present

• adj. Relating to now, for the time being; current.
• adj. Located in the immediate vicinity.
• adj. (obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
• adj. (obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
• adj. (dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
• adj. (obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
• adj. Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the…
• adj. Attentive; alert; focused.
• n. The current moment or period of time.
• n. The present tense.
• n. A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other…
• n. (military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
• v. To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
• v. (transitive) To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop…
• v. (transitive) To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.
• v. (reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
• v. (transitive) To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
• v. (transitive) To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
• v. (transitive) To put on, stage (a play etc.).
• v. (transitive, military) To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
• v. (reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the…
• v. (intransitive, with "as") To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
• v. (transitive) To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
• v. (transitive) To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
• v. (transitive) To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
• v. (transitive) To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
• v. (transitive) To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.

second

• adj. Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding…
• adj. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
• adj. Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
• adv. (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.
• adv. After the first occurrence but before the third.
• n. One that is number two in a series.
• n. One that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
• n. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
• n. (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
• n. (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
• n. A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this…
• n. (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised…
• n. The second gear of an engine.
• n. (baseball) Second base.
• v. (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two.…
• v. To follow in the next place; to succeed.
• v. (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
• n. One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation…
• n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
• n. (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
• v. (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
• v. (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two.…
• n. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
• n. One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement…
• n. (obsolete) Aid; assistance; help.

trice

• n. A roller; windlass.
• n. A very short time; an instant; a moment; – now used only in the phrase in a trice.
• v. To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
• v. (nautical) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

twinkling

• adj. Sparkling intermittently.
• n. A shining with fast intermittent light.
• n. A very short period, notionally the time it takes to blink the eyes.
• v. present participle of twinkle.

wink

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To turn a blind eye.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion. (When transitive,…
• v. (intransitive) To twinkle.
• v. (intransitive) To be dim and flicker.
• n. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
• n. A brief time; an instant.
• n. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
• n. A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.