Immediate

ahd-5
  • adjective. Occurring at once; happening without delay.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of or near the present time.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the present time and place; current.
  • adjective. Close at hand; near: synonym: close.
  • adjective. Next in line or relation.
  • adjective. Acting or occurring without the interposition of another agency or object; direct.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not separated from its object or correlate by any third or medium; directly related; independent of any intermediate agency or action: opposed to remote: as, an immediate cause.
  • Having no space or object intervening; nearest; proximate; having the closest relation: as, immediate contact; the immediate neighborhood.
  • Without any time intervening; without any delay; present; instant: often used, like similar absolute expressions, with less strictness than the literal meaning requires: as, an immediate answer; immediate despatch.
  • In metaphysics, indemonstrable; intuitive; of the character of a direct perception not worked over by the mind.
  • Knowledge of an object as it exists, so that the qualities of our cognition are the qualities of the thing-in-itself.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close.
  • adjective. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
  • adjective. Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly.
  • adjective. an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. happening right away, instantly, with no delay
  • adjective. Very close; direct or adjacent.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect
  • adjective. performed with little or no delay
  • adjective. of the present time and place
  • adjective. having no intervening medium
  • adjective. very close or connected in space or time
  • Word Usage
    "And this is a question which demands immediate attention -- _immediate_ attention; for more than £26,000,000 are paid by taxpayers each year to be spent in great part on our wretched system of poor laws."
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    close  direct  fast  present  proximate  
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    remediate  
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