Definition of Immediate

1. Adjective. Of the present time and place. "The immediate revisions"

Similar to: Present
Derivative terms: Immediateness

2. Adjective. Very close or connected in space or time. "The immediate past"
Exact synonyms: Contiguous
Similar to: Close
Derivative terms: Contiguity, Contiguousness, Immediateness

3. Adjective. Having no intervening medium. "An immediate influence"
Attributes: Immediacy, Immediateness
Similar to: Direct, Unmediated
Derivative terms: Immediateness
Antonyms: Mediate

4. Adjective. Immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect. "The immediate cause of the trouble"
Similar to: Proximate
Derivative terms: Immediateness

5. Adjective. Performed with little or no delay. "A straightaway denial"
Exact synonyms: Prompt, Quick, Straightaway
Similar to: Fast
Derivative terms: Immediateness, Promptness, Quickness

Definition of Immediate

1. a. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

Definition of Immediate

1. Adjective. happening right away, instantly, with no delay ¹

2. Adjective. Very close; direct or adjacent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immediate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Immediate

1. 1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. "You are the most immediate to our throne." (Shak) 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." "Death . . . Not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke." (Milton) 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. "The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible." (Sir. W. Hamilton) Immediate amputation, an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away. Synonym: Proximate, close, direct, next. Origin: F. Immediat. See In- not, and Mediate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immediate

immaturities
immaturity
immeability
immeadiately
immeasurabilities
immeasurability
immeasurable
immeasurableness
immeasurables
immeasurably
immeasured
immechanical
immediable
immediacies
immediacy
immediate (current term)
immediate-early proteins
immediate allergy
immediate amputation
immediate apprehension
immediate constituent
immediate contagion
immediate denture
immediate early gene
immediate families
immediate family
immediate flap
immediate hypersensitivity
immediate hypersensitivity reaction
immediate insertion denture

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