now

Present; current.

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

Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.

I think this band's sound is very now.

Bernard: What does it do? Fran: It's very in. Bernard: You don't know what it is, do you? Fran: It's very now.

At the present time.

Now I am six.

Stop that now, Jimmy!

Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.

Now, we all want what is best for our children.

Now, Jimmy, stop that.

Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.

Now I am ready.

We all now want the latest toys for our children.

At the time reached within a narration.

Now he remembered why he had come.

He now asked her whether she had made pudding.

Used to indicate a context of urgency.

Now listen, we must do something about this.

Since, because, in light of the fact.

Now all the children have grown up and left, the house is very quiet.

Now that my sister has gotten rid of their cat, we can go to her house this coming Thanksgiving.