immediatelyadverb
uk/ɪˈmiː.di.ət.li/us/ɪˈmiː.di.ət.li/A2 now or without waiting or thinking:
We really ought to leave immediately.
The purpose of the meeting wasn't immediately obvious.
C1 close to something or someone in distance or time:
Milton Street is on the left, immediately after the bank.
They moved in immediately before Christmas.
We heard a loud crash from the room immediately above us.
closely or directly:
The people most immediately affected by the drought are the farmers themselves.
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Immediately
- a stitch in time (saves nine) idiom
- ado
- at/in one fell swoop idiom
- bat
- cuff
- directly
- fell
- instant
- instantaneous
- instantly
- 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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Closeness in distance and time
immediatelyconjunction
uk/ɪˈmiː.di.ət.li/us/ɪˈmiː.di.ət.li/UKas soon as:
Immediately she'd gone, the boys started to mess about.
I'll call you immediately I hear anything.
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Points in time
- anytime
- as
- as and when idiom
- downstream
- during
- hour
- in midstream idiom
- juncture
- later
- midstream
- midway
- moment
- occasion
- once
- one
- point
- time
- time slot
- under the wire idiom
- wire
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Describing when something happened or will happen