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Definition of Immediate
1. Adjective. Of the present time and place. "The immediate revisions"
2. Adjective. Very close or connected in space or time. "The immediate past"
Similar to: Close
Derivative terms: Contiguity, Contiguousness, Immediateness
3. Adjective. Having no intervening medium. "An immediate influence"
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"
5. Adjective. Performed with little or no delay. "A straightaway denial"
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
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Medical Definition of Immediate
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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.