Lexic.us

Definition of Immediately

1. Adverb. Without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening. "Come here now!"

2. Adverb. Near or close by. "He passed immediately behind her"

3. Adverb. Bearing an immediate relation. "This immediately concerns your future"

Definition of Immediately

1. adv. In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous.

Definition of Immediately

1. Adverb. In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay. ¹

2. Conjunction. (non-gloss definition Indicates that the dependent clause describes something that occurs immediately after the independent clause's referent does.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immediately

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immediately

immediate early gene immediate families immediate family immediate flap immediate hypersensitivity immediate hypersensitivity reaction immediate insertion denture immediate memory immediate mode immediate payment

immediate percussion immediate posttraumatic automatism immediate posttraumatic convulsion immediate reaction immediate transfusion immediately (current term) immediately dangerous to life concentration immediateness immediatenesses immediatism

immedicable immedicably immelodious immemorable immemorably immemorial immemorial(ip) immemorially immense immensely

Literary usage of Immediately

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... that I immediately ordered five guns to be loaded with finall fhot, and four with great; and gave them fuch • a ..."

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