Related Searches
Nearby Words
present day
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | present |
| Synonyms: | ad hoc, already, at this moment, begun, being, coeval, commenced, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, even now, existent, existing, extant, for the time being, going on, immediate, in duration, in process, instant, just now, modern, new, now, nowadays, prompt, started, today, topical, under consideration, up-to-date |
| Main Entry: | current |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemporary; common |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, afoot, circulating, common knowledge, customary, cutting-edge, doing, existent, extant, fad, fashionable, general, going around, hot*, in, in circulation, in progress, in the mainstream, in the news, in use, in vogue, instant, leading-edge, mod, modern, now*, on front burner, ongoing, popular, present, present-day, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, state-of-the-art, swinging, topical, trendy, up-to-date, widespread |
| Antonyms: | antiquated, old, old-fashioned, past, uncommon, uncontemporary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in existence |
| Synonyms: | actual, alive, around, being, contemporary, current, existent, existing, immediate, in current use, instant, living, not lost, present, present-day, real, remaining, subsisting, surviving, undestroyed |
| Antonyms: | dead, extinct, gone |
| Main Entry: | instant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immediate, urgent |
| Synonyms: | burning*, clamant, contemporary, crying*, current, dire, direct, exigent, existent, extant, fast, imperative, importunate, insistent, instantaneous, on-the-spot, present, present-day, pressing, prompt, quick, split-second |
| Antonyms: | delayed, eventual, late, later |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | modern |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, up-to-date |
| Synonyms: | avant-garde, coincident, concomitant, concurrent, contempo, contemporary, current, cutting-edge, fresh, last word, late, latest, latter-day, leading-edge, modernistic, modernized, modish, neoteric, new-fashioned, newfangled, novel, now, present, present-day, prevailing, prevalent, recent, state-of-the-art*, stylish, today, twenty- first century, up-to-the-minute, with-it |
| Antonyms: | ancient, antiquated, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, outdated, passe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | present |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existing; at this time |
| Synonyms: | ad hoc, already, at this moment, begun, being, coeval, commenced, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, even now, existent, extant, for the time being, going on, immediate, in duration, in process, instant, just now, modern, nowadays, present-day, prompt, started, today, topical, under consideration, up-to-date |
| Antonyms: | absent, former, future, past, previous |
| Main Entry: | recent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | current |
| Synonyms: | contempo, contemporary, fresh, hot off the fire, hot off the press, just out, late, latter, latter-day, modern, modernistic, neoteric, new, newborn, newfangled, novel, present-day, the latest, today, up-to-date, young |
| Antonyms: | earlier, future, old, past |
| Main Entry: | ultramodern |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | up-to-date |
| Synonyms: | advanced, ahead of its time, avant-garde, contemporary, current, cutting-edge, fresh, futuristic, latest, leading-edge, modernistic, modish, new, new-fashioned, nontraditional, now, present-day, revolutionary, state-of-the-art*, stylish, today, twenty-first century, up-to-the-minute |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | existent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | present |
| Synonyms: | contemporary, current, existing, immediate, now, occurring now, ongoing, present-day, taking place |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
