Now

/naʊ/ · adjective

Meaning

Present; current..

Definitions by Sense

1. Present; current.
2. (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
3. At the present time.
4. (sentential) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
5. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
6. At the time reached within a narration.
7. Used to indicate a context of urgency.
8. (informal) At the present point of a recurring cycle or event.

Example Sentences

[…] to my now wife Mabell, my child Elisabeth, & my child now begotten, &c., and they to be joint Exõrs, & if all die, then the same jointly to my brother William Every & my sisters Sarah Skibbowe & Joan Brice.

Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as their Opposites.

The history of the infant colonies teaches us that the country comprised within the limits of the now United States of America was originally patented in the reign of James I., of England, into two portions: that in less than eighty years from that period, the same was again divided into twelve distinct provinces; a thirteenth being after added in the creation of the State of Georgia.

Where in assumpsit for money lent, the defendant pleaded that in an action in which the now defendant was plaintiff, and the now plaintiff was defendant,[…].

Radio 4's continuity announcer said at the end of the show: "As many of you will have noticed, that edition of The Now Show wasn't very now. It was actually last week's programme. Our apologies for that."

For example, the organization has groundlessly denounced Elon Musk, a powerful libertarian voice, as an antisemite in a baldfaced effort to drain his social network, X, of advertising revenue. Yet, when now-Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) came to the defense of his uncle for antisemitic remarks he made in the ’90s, the organization refused to condemn him.

I think this band's sound is very now.

ADAM: I was just thinking, I... (sees the lyre) Hey, brother, do you play? Is it Vulcan? Can I try it? // (Spock gestures his permission and Adam strums a chord) // ADAM: Ho ho, that's now! That's real now! I reach that, brother. I really do. // (He hands the lyre to Spock who plays it briefly)

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• noo
• now!
• nows

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