'Immediate' definitions:
Definition of 'immediate'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of the present time and place; "the immediate revisions"
adjective
Very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past" [syn: contiguous, immediate]
adjective
Having no intervening medium; "an immediate influence" [ant: mediate]
adjective
Immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect; "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble"
adjective
Performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial" [syn: immediate, prompt, quick, straightaway]
Definition of 'Immediate'
From: GCIDE
- Immediate \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. [1913 Webster]
- You are the most immediate to our throne. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible. --Sir. W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'immediate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- up-to-date,
- up-to-the-minute,
- upcoming,
- urgent,
- waiting,
- within call,
- within reach,
- within sight