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adj. Occurring at once; instant: gave me an immediate response.

adj. Of or near the present time: in the immediate future.

adj. Of or relating to the present time and place; current: "It is probable that, apart from the most immediate, pragmatic, technical revisions, the writer's effort to detach himself from his work is quixotic” ( Joyce Carol Oates).

adj. Close at hand; near: in the immediate vicinity. See Synonyms at close.

adj. Next in line or relation: is an immediate successor to the president of the company.

adj. Directly apprehended or perceived: had immediate awareness of the scope of the crisis.

adj. Acting or occurring without the interposition of another agency or object; direct.

adj. happening right away, instantly, with no delay

adj. Very close; direct or adjacent.

adj. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close.

adj. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.

adj. Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly.

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.

adj. immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect

adj. performed with little or no delay

adj. of the present time and place

adj. having no intervening medium

adj. very close or connected in space or time

"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."

proximate    fast    present    direct    unmediated    close   

immediate agglutination    immediate good    immediate knowledge    immediate testimony    immediate inference    immediate contraries   

immediacy   

immediately   

direct    next    proximate    close    present    instant   

remediate   

actual    direct    final    mutual    electrolytical    solemn    secondary    millstone    memory    practical