English Explanatory Dictionary

current

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
  2. The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) ellipsis of ocean current.
  3. Ellipsis of electric current.
  4. electricity, power in general.
  5. A tendency or a course of events.
adj
  1. Existing or occurring at the moment.
  2. Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment; having currency.
  3. Electric; of or relating to electricity.
  4. Running or moving rapidly.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

kŭr′ənt kûr′ənt /ˈkʌɹənt/ en-uk-currant.ogg /ˈkʊɹənt/ /ˈkɐɹənt/ /ˈkʌɹɪnt/ en-us-ne-current.ogg /ˈkɜɹɪnt/ /ˈkɜɹənt/ en-us-current.ogg

Word forms

current currents currenter more current currentest most current

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

flow stream tendency present contemporary current hodiern modern present-day 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 pizazzy spiffing spiffy styleworthy stylish smart snazzy tasteful tippy trendy voguish up-to-the-minute with-it zhoosh speeding

Antonyms

future past out-of-date unfashionable basic cheugy cringe cringey cringeworthy dated démodé fossilized inelegant last year normie old old-fashioned old-hat oldfangled ossified out out of date out of fashion out of touch outdated outmoded passé rinky-dink tacky unchic uncool unhip unpopular unstylish untrendy

Related words

course currency

Derived words

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 Earth current eddy current electrical current electric current fault current Foucault current four-current funny current induced current injury current intercurrent Japan Current Kirchhoff's current law leakage current macrocurrent mesh current microcurrent multicurrent nanocurrent neutral current ocean current Okhotsk Current overcurrent Oyashio Current pacemaker current palaeocurrent paleocurrent pass current phasing current photocurrent Planck current price-current pyroclastic density current Red Current residual-current device return current

Translations

Albanian: rrýmë Albanian: rrýma Albanian: korrént Albanian: korrénti Arabic: تَيَّار Aragonese: corrient Armenian: հոսանք Azerbaijani: cərəyan Basque: korronte Belarusian: ток Bengali: প্রবাহ Bulgarian: ток Burmese: လျှပ်စီး Catalan: corrent Chinese Mandarin: 電流 /电流 Czech: proud Danish: strømstyrke Danish: strøm Dutch: stroom Esperanto: kurento Estonian: elektrivool Finnish: virta Finnish: sähkövirta French: courant Galician: corrente Georgian: დენი German: Strom Greek: εντάση Hebrew: זֶרֶם Hindi: धारा Hindi: प्रवाह Hungarian: áram Interlingua: currente Italian: corrente Japanese: 電流 Kazakh: ток Kazakh: электр тогы Korean: 전류 Kyrgyz: ток Lao: ກະແສໄຟຟ້າ Latvian: strāva Lithuanian: srovė Macedonian: струја Malay: arus Māori: iahiko Central Melanau: karen Mongolian: гүйдэл
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