instant

1. a. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Source: opted

2. a. Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay. Source: opted

3. a. Present; current. Source: opted

4. adv. Instantly. Source: opted

5. a. A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment. Source: opted

6. a. A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3. Source: opted

7. adj. occurring with no delay Source: wordnet

8. adj. in or of the present month Source: wordnet

9. adj. demanding attention Source: wordnet

10. n. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) Source: wordnet

11. n. a particular point in time Source: wordnet

12. 1. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation. Carlyle. 2. Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay. Impending death is thine, and instant doom. Prior. 3. Present; current. The instant time is always the fittest time. Fuller. Note: The word in this sense is now used only in dates, to indicate the current month; as, the tenth of July instant. Instantly. [Poetic] Instant he flew with hospitable haste. Pope. 1. A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment. There is scarce an instant between their flourishing and their not being. Hooker. 2. A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3. Syn. -- Moment; flash; second. Source: webster

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