instantlyadverb
uk/ˈɪn.stənt.li/us/ˈɪn.stənt.li/B2 immediately:
Both drivers were killed instantly.
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- It's some comfort to his wife to know that he died instantly and didn't suffer.
- We can now communicate instantly with people on the other side of the world.
- She was knocked down by a car and killed instantly.
- She jumps on her children instantly if they're disobedient.
- The Eiffel Tower in Paris is an instantly recognizable landmark.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Immediately
- a stitch in time (saves nine) idiom
- ado
- at/in one fell swoop idiom
- bat
- cuff
- directly
- fell
- in a flash idiom
- instant
- instantaneous
- no sooner said than done idiom
- off the bat idiom
- pronto
- quickly
- soon
- spot
- straight
- then
- then and there idiom
- thereupon
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