adjective
- Of the present time and place.
- usage: "the immediate revisions"
- Very close or connected in space or time.
- usage: "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past"
- synonyms: contiguous
- Having no intervening medium.
- usage: "an immediate influence"
- Immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect.
- usage: "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble"
- Performed with little or no delay.
- usage: "an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"
- synonyms: prompt, quick, straightaway
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