at present

1. 1.

   at the present moment

   “goods now on sale”

   “the now-aging dictator”

   “they are now abroad”

   “he is busy at present writing a new novel”

   “it could happen any time now”

   Synonymsnow

Questions about at present

What does at present mean?

at present means "at the present moment".

What is another word for at present?

Close synonyms include now. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is at present a common word?

at present is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.