Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

for now

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.12 in modern English

Syllables: for now
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

At the moment (suggesting a deferral of the likelihood of change).

Example Sentences

"That's enough for now, we can continue our conversation tomorrow."
"For now the real climate-change refugees may be living not above sea level but below it. Researchers[…]have found that, since 1970, stocks of some fish species have gradually been moving towards the world’s colder regions.[…]The world’s fish stocks, it seems, are heralding a migration that may one day occur above the seas too."

Synonyms

for the present for the moment for the time being

Questions

What does for now mean?: At the moment (suggesting a deferral of the likelihood of change).

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