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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very short time |
| Synonyms: | bat of an eye, blink of an eye, flash, fraction of a second, half a second, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, microsecond, millisecond, moment, nanosecond, nothing flat, twinkling |
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| Main Entry: | jiffy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instant |
| Synonyms: | breath, crack, flash, jiff, minute, moment, second, shake*, split second, trice, twinkling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brief time period |
| Synonyms: | bat of an eye, breath, breathing, crack, flash, instant, jiffy, min, mo, moment, nothing flat, sec, second, shake, short time, sixtieth of hour, sixty seconds, split second, twinkling |
| Main Entry: | moment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brief time period |
| Synonyms: | bit, breathing, crack, date, flash, hour, instant, jiff, jiffy, juncture, minute, no time, nothing flat, occasion, point, point in time, sec, second, shake, split second, stage, three winks, tick, time, trice, twinkle, twinkling, while, wink |
| Main Entry: | second |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortest interval of time |
| Synonyms: | bat of an eye, flash, instant, jiffy, moment, nothing flat, sec, shake*, split second, twinkling, wink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wink |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moment |
| Synonyms: | flash*, instant, jiffy, minute, second, shake*, split second, twinkle, twinkling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | twinkling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a very short time |
| Synonyms: | blink, flash, instant, moment, second, shake, split second |
| Antonyms: | aeon, eternity, lifetime |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | instant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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