instant (n.)
- acute
- alert
- approaching
- being
- bit
- breath
- breathing
- brewing
- burning
- close
- coming
- contemporary
- coup
- crack
- crying
- current
- day
- earnest
- extant
- flash
- flying
- future
- gathering
- grasping
- hour
- imperative
- interval
- jiffy
- juncture
- latest
- little
- looming
- loud
- lowering
- microsecond
- millisecond
- minute
- modern
- moment
- new
- passing
- period
- point
- present
- pressing
- prompt
- quick
- ready
- ready-made
- running
- season
- sec
- second
- shake
- snap
- space
- span
- spell
- spurt
- stage
- stretch
- stroke
- summary
- swift
- tick
- time
- trice
- twinkle
- twinkling
- twitch
- urgent
- waiting
- while
- wink
instant (adj.)
- actual
- acute
- alert
- approaching
- apt
- bit
- breathing
- burning
- clamant
- clamorous
- close
- coming
- compelling
- contemporaneous
- contemporary
- crack
- critical
- crucial
- crying
- current
- cursory
- day
- decisive
- demanding
- dire
- direct
- draining
- earnest
- exacting
- exigent
- existent
- existing
- exorbitant
- expeditious
- extant
- extortionate
- feverish
- flash
- flying
- forthcoming
- fresh
- furious
- future
- gathering
- grasping
- hasty
- high-pressure
- hurried
- immanent
- immediate
- imminent
- impendent
- impending
- imperative
- imperious
- importunate
- insistent
- instantaneous
- last-minute
- latest
- little
- looming
- loud
- lowering
- menacing
- minute
- modern
- moment
- momentaneous
- momentary
- near
- new
- overnight
- passing
- persistent
- pertinacious
- pivotal
- point
- prepared
- present
- present-day
- pressing
- presto
- prompt
- punctual
- quick
- ready
- ready-made
- running
- sec
- second
- slapdash
- span
- speedy
- stage
- stretch
- summary
- superficial
- swift
- taxing
- threatening
- tick
- time
- topical
- twinkling
- up-to-date
- up-to-the-minute
- upcoming
- urgent
- waiting
- while
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock.
