current

Existing or occurring at the moment.

Adjective

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

    Synonyms: present contemporary current hodiern modern present-day

    Antonyms: future past

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

    Synonyms: fashionable prevailing prevalent rife up-to-date a la mode/à la mode all the rage chic sassy cool dapper done elegant groovy happening hep hip in in fashion jaunty modish natty on fleek on trend

    Antonyms: out-of-date unfashionable basic cheugy cringe cringey cringeworthy dated démodé fossilized inelegant last year normie old old-fashioned old-hat oldfangled ossified out out of date out of fashion out of touch outdated outmoded

  3. Electric; of or relating to electricity.
    • current bill
    • current shock
    • In April and May this year, the average daily current consumption dropped to 55 MU[…]Compared to household electricity charges, the current unit charge used by commercial companies is higher.[…]Electricity consumption...
  4. 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 &...

    Synonyms: speeding

Origin

From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere (“to run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.

Forms

currenter more current currentest most current

Derived

cocurrent current account current affairs current asset current events current liability currently currentness current ratio current shock current thing current year discurrent noncurrent price current uncurrent

Noun

  1. The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
    • The mantle is important to our discussion in that its viscous nature can conduct convection currents that have effects on the crust upon which we live. - 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of...
  2. The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) ellipsis of ocean current.

    Synonyms: flow stream

  3. Ellipsis of electric current.

    1. (by extension, South Asia) electricity, power in general.

  4. A tendency or a course of events.

    Synonyms: flow stream tendency

Forms

currents

Related

course currency

Derived

account current alternating current Birkeland current branch current method California Current call-with-current-continuation charged current convective current countercurrent crosscurrent current balance current divider currentless current money current sheet current-traditionalism current-traditionalist current-traditional rhetoric currentwise dark current direct current displacement current down-current downcurrent