current

adj

1. present, immediate, instant, imminent, now-passing, happening, occuring, ongoing, going on, present-day; existent, extant, actual, being, coincident, concomitant, coeval, coexistent, simultaneous, contemporaneous, synchronous.

2. well-known, widely-known, commonly-known, common knowledge, familiar; reported, rumored, circulated, in circulation, in the news, in the air, going around, making the rounds, all over town; talked-of, talked-about, in everyone's mouth, on everyone's lips or tongue.

3. prevalent, prevailing, dominant, predominant, ruling, reigning; widespread, general, universal, rife, rampant, epidemic; common, commonplace, everyday, usual, ordinary, customary, normative, conventional, regular, habitual, standard, average.

4. popular, in fashion, in style, in vogue, a la mode, all the rage, Sl. the thing; new-fashioned, modern, Inf. trendy, Sl. mod, Sl. now; fashionable, stylish, modish.

5. new, present, latest, most-recent, fresh; up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, in the swim, Fr. au courant. enlightened, informed, well-posted, in the know, Sl. hip, Sl. with it, Brit. Sl. suss; up on, abreast of.

n

6. flux, flow, flowing; tide; progress, ongoing.

7. waterway, watercourse, channel, stream, river, brook, creek.

8. draft, updraft, downdraft, wind, air current, crosscurrent, undercurrent, thermal; Jetstream.

9. trend, drift, direction, course, bearing, aim, turn, set, tenor, tone, swing, line; bent, inclination, tendency, general tendency, main course, mainstream, main current, the way the wind blows or river flows, the way things go; spirit, spirit of the age, Ger. Zeitgeist.

10. electricity, direct current, DC, alternating current, AC, power, Sl. juice.