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Adjective

current (comparative currenter or more current, superlative currentest or most current)

1. Existing or occurring at the moment.
   • current events

   Synonyms:

   present, contemporary, hodiern, modern, de nos jours, present-day

   Antonyms:

   future, past

2. Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment; having currency.
   • current affairs

   Synonyms:

   fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date, a la mode/à la mode, all the rage, chic, sassy, cool

   Antonyms:

   out-of-date, unfashionable, basic, cheugy, cringe, cringey, cringeworthy, dated, démodé, elderly

3. (South-Asia) Electric; of or relating to electricity.
   • current bill
4. (obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
   • For here we met, some ten or twelve of us, / To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 114

   Synonyms:

   speeding

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