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[ UK /ɪmˈiːdɪət/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈmiˌdiət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having no intervening medium
    an immediate influence
  2. performed with little or no delay
    was quick to respond
    a prompt reply
    an immediate reply to my letter
    a straightaway denial
  3. immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect
    the immediate cause of the trouble
    the immediate result
  4. of the present time and place
    the immediate revisions
  5. very close or connected in space or time
    immediate contact
    contiguous events
    the immediate past
    the immediate vicinity

How To Use immediate In A Sentence

  • He comes from nowhere to win this contest and immediately is able to grasp a lot of the intricacies of the moviemaking process.
  • Some spring from immediately below the earth, and may more properly be termed suckers; the others grow on the visible part of the stem or caudex, often close to the oldest leaves; these should be cut off with a sharp knife, in early summer, and if they have a little of the parent bark attached to them all the better. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
  • York were immediately on the back foot but repelled a series of short corners and managed to engineer a breakaway attack.
  • With the Shared Model architecture, changes made in one process element are (depending on access privileges) immediately visible and accessible to other process elements.
  • In an attempt to break the strike, management used megaphones to instruct the afternoon shift, who were gathered in a car park, to return to work or face immediate dismissal.
  • The question of professional refereeing is an urgent issue that needs immediate attention.
  • Anyone found wearing a paperclip was liable to immediate arrest. Times, Sunday Times
  • I still see Mr. Berman's portable shtender in the shul and I have to smile because I immediately see his warm gentle smile and think about how fortunate I was to have met your father.
  • The recession shows no signs of easing in the immediate future.
  • Immediately above the anterior perforated substance, the pear-shaped head of the caudate nucleus is confluent with the putamen of the lentiform nucleus.
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