Chapter Insensibility to Insulator of I by Soule's Synonymes

2. Immediate, quick, instantaneous.

3. Current, present, now passing.

Instant, n.

1. Moment, second, twinkling, flash, trice, jiffy, twinkling of an eye, smallest conceivable point of time.

2. Time, particular time, hour, moment.

Instantaneous, a. Immediate, quick, instant.

Instantaneously, Instantly, ad. Immediately, forthwith, instanter, in an instant, on the instant, in a moment, right away, without a moment’s delay, all at once, on the moment, on the spur of the moment, in less than no time, quick as thought, quick as lightning, before one can say “Jack Robinson.”

Instanter, ad. [L.] See Instantaneously, Instantly.

Instar omnium. [L.] Like all, a specimen of the whole, an example for all.

In statu quo. [L.] In the same state as before, in the existing condition.

Instauration, n. Restoration, renewal, re-establishment, reinstatement, renovation, reconstruction, redintegration, reconstitution, rehabilitation.

Instead, ad. In lieu, in the room, in (the) place.

Instigate, v. a. [In a bad sense.] Incite, prompt, impel, move, urge, provoke, stimulate, rouse, actuate, persuade, influence, encourage, set on, prevail upon, stir up, spur on.

Instigation, n. Incitement, urgency, encouragement, prompting, influence, solicitation, instance.

Instil, v. a. [Written also Instill.]

1. Infuse, insinuate.

2. Inculcate, impress, enforce, implant, ingraft.

Instillation, n. Infusion, insinuation, gentle introduction.

Instinct, n. Natural impulse, blind impulse, native tendency, innate or inborn proclivity.

Instinct, a. Alive, quick, animated, informed, alert.

Instinctive, a.

1. Natural, spontaneous, involuntary, prompted by instinct.

2. Impulsive, unreflecting, not deliberate.