immediately
adv/ɪˈmiː.di.ət.li/UK/ɪˈmi.di.ɪt.li/CA/ɪˈmiː.d͡ʒət.li/
Etymology
From Middle English immediatly, equivalent to immediate + -ly.
- inherited from immediatly
Definitions
In an immediate manner
In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.
- I hope we can begin immediately.
- His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
- Spain failed to move through the gears despite exerting control for lengthy spells and a measure of perspective must be applied immediately to the outcome.
Without any intervening time or space.
- A tri-tone chime whistle, operated from the cab by a flexible cable passing down the right hand handrail, is mounted on the top of the smokebox immediately behind the chimney.
As soon as, the moment that.
- Near-synonym: once
- My dog is an open book: immediately he smelled our dinner, he grew more interested in our activities.
- Immediately he saw the firm, he realised what he could do.
The neighborhood
- synonymforthwith
- synonymnow
- synonymright away
- synonymstraightaway
- synonymtout de suite
- synonymdirectly
- synonymanoon
- synonymASAP
- synonymat once
- synonymby and by
- synonymforthwithal
- synonymincontinently
- antonymeventually
- neighborin no time
- neighborquickly
- neighborcurrently
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at immediately. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at immediately. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at immediately
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA