About The Word Immediate
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Immediate
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What's The Definition Of Immediate?
[adj] very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past"
[adj] having no intervening medium; "an immediate influence" [adj] performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "prompt obedience"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial" [adj] immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect; "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble" [adj] of the present time and place; "the immediate revisions" Synonyms | Synonyms for Immediate: close | contiguous | direct | fast | present(a) | prompt | proximate | quick | straightaway | unmediated Related Terms | Find terms related to Immediate: about to be | abrupt | accessible | actual | adjacent | adjoining | alert | already in sight | approaching | apt | articulated | as is | at hand | attendant | automatic | available | being | bordering | brewing | catenated | ceaseless | close | close at hand | closest | coming | concatenated | connected | connecting | constant | contemporaneous | contemporary | conterminous | contiguous | continual | continued | continuing | continuous | coterminous | current | cursory | cyclical | decisive | direct | end to end | endless | endways | endwise | existent | existing | expeditious | extant | face to face | featureless | festinate | feverish | firsthand | flying | forthcoming | fresh | furious | future | gapless | gathering | going to happen | hair-trigger | hasty | hurried | immanent | imminent | impendent | impending | in danger imminent | in prospect | in reserve | in store | in the cards | in the offing | in the wind | in view | incessant | indwelling | inherent | instant | instantaneous | instinctive | interminable | irreversible | joined | jointless | juxtaposed | juxtapositional | juxtapositive | last-minute | latest | lightning-like | linked | looming | lowering | lurking | menacing | modern | momentaneous | momentary | monotonous | near | near at hand | nearby | nearest | nearing | nearmost | neighbor | neighboring | never-ending | new | next | nigh | nighest | nonstop | on board | on deck | on hand | on the horizon | on the spot | one-way | overhanging | passing | perennial | periodic | preparing | present | present-age | present-day | present-time | pressing | presto | primary | prompt | proximate | punctual | quick | quick as lightning | quick as thought | ready | recurrent | reflex | repetitive | round-the-clock | running | seamless | serried | slap-bang | slapdash | smooth | snap | speedy | spontaneous | stable | steady | straight | straightaway | straightforward | straightway | sudden | summary | superficial | swift | that be | that is | that will be | threatening | to come | topical | twenty-four-hour | unbroken | unceasing | undeviating | undifferentiated | unending | unhesitating | unidirectional | uniform | unintermitted | unintermittent | unintermitting | uninterrupted | unrelieved | unremitting | unstopped | unswerving | unthinking | upcoming | up-to-date | up-to-the-minute | urgent | waiting | within call | within reach | within sight See Also | Immediate In Webster's Dictionary \Im*me"di*ate\, a. [F. imm['e]diat. See {In-} not, and
{Mediate}.]
1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening;
proximate; close; as, immediate contact.
You are the most immediate to our throne. --Shak.
2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
``Assemble we immediate council.'' --Shak.
Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some
immediate stroke. --Milton.
3. Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the
intervention of another object as a cause, means, or
agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an
immediate cause.
The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore
impossible. --Sir. W.
Hamilton.
{Immediate amputation} (Surg.), an amputation performed
within the first few hours after an injury, and before the
the effects of the shock have passed away.
Syn: Proximate; close; direct; next.
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