immediate
occurring or accomplished without delay; instant: an immediate reply.
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.
Origin of immediate
1Other words for immediate
Opposites for immediate
Other words from immediate
- 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
Words Nearby immediate
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How to use immediate in a sentence
Still, the family maintains that immediate medical attention should have been provided.
The policing reforms in the Breonna Taylor settlement, explained | Fabiola Cineas | September 17, 2020 | VoxAsked 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.
Biden questions whether a vaccine approved by Trump would be safe | Sean Sullivan | September 16, 2020 | Washington PostThree 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.
Post-ABC Wisconsin poll shows Biden holding narrow edge over Trump | Dan Balz, Emily Guskin | September 16, 2020 | Washington PostThere was an immediate need to know where their employees are.
Are you ready to start traveling for work again? TripActions’ CEO is banking on it | Michal Lev-Ram, writer | September 15, 2020 | FortuneThe reprieve takes some of the immediate heat off, but change is coming and a lot of businesses aren’t prepared.
Deep Dive: How the Summer of 2020 forced brand marketing to change for the better | jim cooper | September 14, 2020 | Digiday
It is grandstanding for a right rarely protected unless under immediate attack.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead | Luke O’Neil | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir 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.
Venezuela Says Goodbye to Its Lil Friend, While the Rest of the Continent Cheers | Catalina Lobo-Guererro | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDuring the immediate protests for Michael Brown I walked in the crowd solo and mostly silent.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Protesting | Rawiya Kameir, Judnick Mayard | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJUDNICK: The immediate supremacist reaction is to equalize everything.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Protesting | Rawiya Kameir, Judnick Mayard | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe intricacies and abrupt turns in the road separated him from his immediate followers.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterIt consists in finding relations between the objects of thought with an immediate awareness of those relations.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)All immediate danger having now been dispelled, the Spaniards solaced themselves with the sweets of revenge.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanI 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.
The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
British Dictionary definitions for immediate
/ (ɪˈmiːdɪət) /
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
Origin of immediate
1Derived forms of immediate
- immediacy or immediateness, noun
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