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"
Partainyms: Immediate

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

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
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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