1. Of the present time and place
   "the immediate revisions" 
2. Very close or connected in space or time
   "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past"
   - contiguous 
3. Performed with little or no delay
   "an immediate reply to my letter"
   - prompt, quick, straightaway 
4. Having no intervening medium
   "an immediate influence" 
5. Immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect
   "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble"

See also: close, direct, fast, immediately, immediateness, present, proximate, unmediated

Antonym: mediate

Encyclopedia: Immediate

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