instant

1. (dated) Impending; imminent.Examples: "Impending death is thine, and instant doom."Synonyms: pending, proximate, around the corner, at hand, forthcoming, imminent, impendent, impendingdatednot-comparable

2. (dated) Urgent; pressing; acute.datednot-comparable

3. (dated) Insistent; persistent.Examples: "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer."; "January 2, 1827, Thomas Carlyle, letter to Mrs. Carlyle, Scotsbrig I am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation."Synonyms: exigent, imperious, acute, bad, clamant, crying, dire, exigentdatednot-comparable

4. (law) Present; current; extant.Examples: "He received just two disciplinary reports prior to committing the instant offense, one in March 2019 for activating an alarm during a non-emergency situation, and one in May 2019 for failing to provide a urine specimen."not-comparable

5. (dated) Of the current month.Examples: "I refer to your letter of the 16th instant in regard to traffic disruption."; "Vice-Admiral Kamimura reports that at dawn of the 14th instant, our squadron found, off Ulsan, the south-eastern coast of Corea, three ships of the Vladivostock squadron steaming southward."; "I have maturely reflected on the subject of your letter of the 18th instant; and the more I have reflected the more I have become convinced, that I could not, without manifest impropriety, make the avowal or disavowal which you seem to think necessary."datednot-comparable