Topical

a.	1.	Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.
	2.	(Rhet. & logic) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics.
	3.	Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument. Evidences of fact can be no more than topical and probable.

Adj.	1.	topical - pertaining to the surface of a body part; "a drug for topical (or local) application"; "a topical anesthesia"
	2.	topical - of or relating to or arranged by topics; "a detailed record on both a chronological and a topical basis"
	3.	topical - of interest at the present time; "a topical reference"; "a topical and timely study of civil liberty"

actual, as is, being, confined, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, existent, existing, extant, fresh, geographically limited, immanent, immediate, instant, insular, latest, limited, local, localized, modern, new, of a place, parochial, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, provincial, running, superficial, that be, that is, thematic, timely, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, vernacular