now

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Present; current.
2. (informal, not-comparable) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
3. (archaic, not-comparable) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.

Adv

1. (not-comparable) At the present time.
2. (not-comparable) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
3. (not-comparable) Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
4. (not-comparable) At the time reached within a narration.
5. (not-comparable) Used to indicate a context of urgency.
6. (informal, not-comparable) At the present point of a recurring cycle or event.
7. (not-comparable, obsolete) Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
8. (not-comparable) Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before.
9. (not-comparable) Sometimes; occasionally; used to list a series of often assumed states.

Conj

Since, because, in light of the fact.

Intj

Indicates a signal to begin.

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) The present time.
2. (often, uncountable, usually) The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
3. (countable, usually) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.

Verb

Misspelling of know.

Synonyms

at present

today

nowadays

immediately

at this time

currently

then

presently

well

already

present time

present

here

right now

at this moment

at once

this time

so

present moment

just now

soon

🔜

right away

these days

this

current

yet

forthwith

for the present

instantly

just

directly

current time

recently

well then

this moment

at the moment

straightaway

𐑌𐐵

hurry

but

again

🔁

from now on

thereupon

at the present time

straight off

first

1st

in these days

like a shot

still

appear

Translations

maintenant

jetzt

ahora

nu

adesso

nun

ora

agora

ara

τώρα

nunc

şimdi

augenblicklich

ya

Pronounced as (IPA)

/naʊ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: now

Inherited from Old English: nū

Cognate with Scots: noo

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: nu

Cognate with Western Frisian: no

Cognate with Dutch: nu

Cognate with German: nu

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: nå

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: no

Cognate with Swedish: -

Cognate with Danish: nu

Cognate with Icelandic: nú

Cognate with Latin: num

Cognate with Latin: nunc

Cognate with Albanian: ni

Cognate with Lithuanian: nù

Cognate with Avestan: 𐬥𐬏

Cognate with Sanskrit: नु

In summary

From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Doublet of nu ("well?").
Cognates
Cognate with Scots noo, nou, now (“now”), Yola neow, now, nowe (“now”), North Frisian nü (“now”), Saterland Frisian nu (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Limburgish noe, Nuu (“now”), Danish, Swedish nu (“now”), Elfdalian nų (“now”), Faroese nú, núgv (“now”), Icelandic nú, núna (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål nu, nå (“now”), Norwegian Nynorsk no, nu, nå (“now”), Gothic 𐌽𐌿 (nu, “now”), Latin num (“even now, whether”), Latin nunc (“now”), Albanian ni (“now”), Lithuanian nù (“now”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “now”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”).

Sentences

Now what do you say ?

It was now near midnight .

Is it raining right now ?

This investigation is now compromised .

To send it now in large amounts is bad .

Now he was here not with his flock , but with a shovel .