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immediate
[ ih-mee-dee-it ]
adjective
- occurring or accomplished without delay; instant:
an immediate reply.
Synonyms: instantaneous
- following or preceding without a lapse of time:
the immediate future.
- having no object or space intervening; nearest or next:
in the immediate vicinity.
- of or relating to the present time or moment:
our immediate plans.
- without intervening medium or agent; direct:
an immediate cause.
- having a direct bearing:
immediate consideration.
- being family members who are very closely related to oneself, usually including one’s parents, siblings, spouse, and children:
my immediate family;
her immediate kin;
his immediate relatives.
- Philosophy. directly intuited.
immediate
/ ɪˈmiːdɪət /
adjective
- taking place or accomplished without delay
an immediate reaction
- closest or most direct in effect or relationship
the immediate cause of his downfall
- having no intervening medium; direct in effect
an immediate influence
- contiguous in space, time, or relationship
our immediate neighbour
- present; current
the immediate problem is food
- philosophy of or relating to an object or concept that is directly known or intuited
- logic (of an inference) deriving its conclusion from a single premise, esp by conversion or obversion of a categorial statement
Derived Forms
- imˈmediacy, noun
Other Words From
- im·me·di·ate·ness noun
- im·me·di·ate·ly adverb
- qua·si-im·me·di·ate adjective
- un·im·me·di·ate adjective
- un·im·me·di·ate·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of immediate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of immediate1
Example Sentences
Still, the family maintains that immediate medical attention should have been provided.
Asked Wednesday why that is the case, Biden replied, “I’ve been out of office for four years,” arguing that voters do not have an immediate sense of the progress the Obama administration made.
Three in five voters in Wisconsin express worries that they or someone in their immediate family might contract the coronavirus, with about a quarter overall saying they are very worried.
There was an immediate need to know where their employees are.
The reprieve takes some of the immediate heat off, but change is coming and a lot of businesses aren’t prepared.
It is grandstanding for a right rarely protected unless under immediate attack.
Their immediate response tells an important truth about a police slowdown that has spread throughout New York City in recent days.
Analysts interpreted it as an immediate ripple effect of the newly established US-Cuban détente.
During the immediate protests for Michael Brown I walked in the crowd solo and mostly silent.
JUDNICK: The immediate supremacist reaction is to equalize everything.
The intricacies and abrupt turns in the road separated him from his immediate followers.
It consists in finding relations between the objects of thought with an immediate awareness of those relations.
All immediate danger having now been dispelled, the Spaniards solaced themselves with the sweets of revenge.
I perceive no immediate reason for the evacuation of Peking as far as the supply of game is concerned.
It lay framed within his thoughts, isolated from the rest of life, isolated somehow even from the immediate present.
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