meantime

Examples

• All

• And in the meantime, there are real families who need help.

• You'll be doing those things, but in the meantime, now's a chance to work on you.

• But in the meantime, evil forces may take over.

  Alex O'Connor

• And in the meantime, it feels like life is on hold.

  Matthew Hussey

• Listen, I'll be back in a few hours to check up on you; meantime, relax and try not to move around too much.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Find your happiness in the meantime, work on you in the meantime.

• But in the meantime, this is what I'm doing now.

• Israel, meantime, was left once more with the haunting problem of military supply.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Meantime, Roland Turner is a thousand miles away, laughing his ass off.

  Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

• In the meantime, I will finish my homework before dinner.

Synonyms

I

in the meantime

vsmeantime

545 2.8

While you wait for something else to happen

is the single word form used in the same waiting period

I

interim

vsmeantime

31 5.4

The time between one event and the next

describes actions within that period rather than naming the period

M

meanwhile

vsmeantime

3 3.2

The time between two events

is used similarly but often as an action during that period

A

ad interim

vsmeantime

• Formal

8.5

For a short time until a permanent one takes over

is the neutral everyday timing phrase without formal or Latin tone

Antonyms

B

before

∞ 1.0

At an earlier time

A

after

574 1.0

At a later time than something else

Idioms

I

in the meantime

545 2.8

While you wait for something else to happen

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology