for now
Just right now
For now means temporarily or for the present moment, with the implication that circumstances may change: This solution will work for now.
It acknowledges a situation as provisional rather than permanent: Let's leave it here for now.
The phrase often signals that something better, different, or more definitive will come later.
- temporarilyFor a limited time
- meanwhileDuring the intervening time
- waitingRemaining in expectation
- at this timeIn the present
- in the meantimeDuring intervening time
pause · on hold · holding pattern · provisional · interim · until further notice · short-term · transient · reversible · pro tem · fleeting · modifiable · stopgap · quick fix · band-aid solution · adaptable · flexible · present
- time phrasesall day, all night, in time, on time, any minute
- Temporarilybriefly, temporarily, meanwhile, in the meantime, pro tem
- time expressionstoday, soon, tomorrow, later, yesterday
- phrasesnoun phrases, noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, prepositional phrases
- nowpresent, moment, instant, today, currently
- temporarytemporary, temp job, interim, temp worker, provisional
for nowpermanently
In an unchanging manner
forever · for good · once and for all · indefinitely · for all time
for nowin the future
At a subsequent time
eventually · ultimately · someday · back then · in the past