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Definitions for immediately
ɪˈmi di ɪt liim·me·di·ate·ly

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. immediately, instantly, straightaway, straight off, directly, now, right away, at once, forthwith, like a shotadverb

    without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening

    "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!"

  2. immediatelyadverb

    near or close by

    "he passed immediately behind her"

  3. immediatelyadverb

    bearing an immediate relation

    "this immediately concerns your future"

Wiktionary

  1. immediatelyadverb

    In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.

    I hope we can begin immediately.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Immediatelyadverb

    Etymology: from immediate.

    God's acceptance of it, either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop, is that which vests the whole property of a thing in God. Robert South, Sermons.

    Her father hath commanded her to slip
    Away with Slender, and with him at Eaton
    Immediately to marry. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

Wikipedia

  1. immediately

    In legal usage, "immediately" forms several compounds based on its conventional definitions.

ChatGPT

  1. immediately

    Immediately is an adverb which means right away or without any delay. It refers to an action taking place as soon as another event is completed or occurring at once.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Immediatelyadverb

    in an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous

  2. Immediatelyadverb

    without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once

  3. Immediatelyadverb

    as soon as. Cf. Directly, 8, Note

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'immediately' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #961

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'immediately' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1565

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'immediately' in Adverbs Frequency: #100

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of immediately in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of immediately in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of immediately in a Sentence

  1. Sung Won Sohn:

    Lower income workers will be hit harder, they'll have to cut back their spending immediately. That has a significant multiplying effect throughout the world.

  2. The FDA:

    Manufacturers' failure to immediately recall all potentially affected products is placing consumers in danger of methanol poisoning, a warning letter has been issued to Eskbiochem S.A. de C.V. for distributing product with undeclared methanol, unapproved claims -- including incorrectly stating The FDA approval — and improper manufacturing practices.

  3. Jeff Zucker:

    The Mary Trump media, you know, moves immediately from -- OK, well, never mind -- the unmasking was, you know, found to be completely nonsensical to the latest alleged scandal and expects everybody to just follow suit, so, I dont think that we should be repeating unsubstantiated smears just because the rightwing media suggests that we should.

  4. Danny Cevallos:

    Because the monkey cannot create a copyrightable work, that work can never be copyrightable, in the case of a monkey's selfie by itself, that photograph immediately and forever falls into the public domain, and can be used by anyone, without permission.

  5. Michelle Wolf:

    Ivanka, you’re like that birth control pill Yaz. At first, it seemed like you’d be really cool and helpful but you need to be immediately recalled.

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