Synonym Dictionary

Postponing an immediate pleasure or reward in order to obtain a more valued benefit later.

The usefulness or convenience of an action for achieving an immediate aim.

Useful or convenient for reaching an aim, though not always principled.

Gained directly through personal experience or observation.

Domineering and expecting immediate obedience.

Arising naturally without deliberate thought or conscious planning.

Understood through immediate insight rather than explicit reasoning.

Improvised to meet an immediate need until a better solution is available.

Giving disproportionately greater weight to an immediate outcome than to a later one.

Planned to achieve a particular immediate purpose or support a larger aim.

Forming a deeper basis or cause, sometimes not immediately obvious.