Now

Quick meaning: Now is an adjective meaning Present; current.

Meaning

Present; current.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

I think this band's sound is very now.

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

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."

Word Forms

• nows

Synonyms for now

Depending on context, synonyms include as-is, present, forthwith, immediately, instantly, straightaway.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nowadays, instantly, immediately, today, forthwith, directly.

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