Definitions for instantly
ˈɪn stənt liin·stant·ly

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

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. instantaneously, outright, instantly, in a flashadverb

   without any delay

   "he was killed outright"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. instantlyadverb

   Urgently; with insistence.

2. instantlyadverb

   At once; without delay.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Instantlyadverb

   Etymology: instanter, Latin.

   1. Immediately; without any perceptible intervention of time.

   In a great whale, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion throughout the whole body. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. cent. x.

   Sleep instantly fell on me. John Milton.

   As several winds arise,
   Just so their natures alter instantly. Thomas May, Virgil.

   2. With urgent importunity.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. instantly

   Instantly refers to happening or done immediately or without any delay. It can also refer to the immediate occurrence of an event or action.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Instantlyadverb

   without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately

2. Instantlyadverb

   with urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly

British National Corpus

1. Adverbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'instantly' in Adverbs Frequency: #334

How to pronounce instantly?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of instantly in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of instantly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of instantly in a Sentence

1. Gene Kerns:

   All signs suggest that this is going to be a multiyear recovery, we can reset instruction back to where it was pre-pandemic, but that isn’t going to instantly move students up to where they would have been had the pandemic not occurred.

2. Jeff Bauman:

   I knew my legs were gone. I know that instantly.

3. Courtesy Casey Maccarone:

   We were waiting for Monique Alexander to come home. I knew something was wrong right away though, so I kind of accepted it instantly, but it’s hard knowing that Monique Alexander was outside for so long, too, because there were no emergency responders allowed to come outside.

4. Ira Carmen:

   I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

5. Jack Greatrex:

   You hear of the plague, and instantly you think of Black Death which ravages Europe, it has that enormous historical baggage, it's where lots of our ideas about what it means to have an epidemic comes from.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=instantly
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Instantly
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=instantly
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/instantly