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[ adjective ] very close or connected in space or time
Synonyms Examples "contiguous events" "immediate contact" "the immediate vicinity" "the immediate past" Used in print (The New York Times,...)When he was unable to bring_about immediate expansion , he sought to convince another National_League club to move here . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually , then , it would seem , the sense_of_touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in_independence_of visual representations , at_least in regard_to two dimensions , and , as we shall see , even this much spatial awareness on_the_part_of unaided touch is denied by the authors . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] having no intervening medium
Examples "an immediate influence" Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Only one other contemporary of More 's evokes so immediate and direct a response , and only one other contemporary work - Niccolo_Machiavelli and The_Prince . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect
Examples "the immediate result" "the immediate cause of the trouble" Used in print (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)Could your future , your immediate future , be made to include taking us upstairs , giving us a_bit of space in which our friend can work , and making available to him your finger_tips '' ? (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)His chelas were required to assume the matsyendra posture dressed in hand-woven diapers while he read aloud from Rig-Veda and an assistant guru examined their purses in another room - nothing was stolen ; the purpose was less immediate . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of the present time and place
Examples "the immediate revisions" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)Aside_from a quaint concern with witches and devils which provides the immediate problem in the opening scene , it is a quite normal community . (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)It will occur to anyone that the teacher must have adequate education , a depth and breadth of knowledge far beyond the immediate necessities of his course plus complete dedication to his subject and to his students . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)But we must never forget , most_of the appropriate heroes and their legends were created overnight , to answer immediate needs , almost always with conscious aims and ends . (Kenneth Hoffman and Ray Kunze, Linear Al...)But then it is immediate that * * f , i.e. , that �a is in the range of * * f . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Both Cook 's and Russell 's lives were threatened by the Mexicans following the killing , but the company officers felt that in_the_end , it would serve to quiet them despite their immediate emotion . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] performed with little or no delay
Synonyms Examples "an immediate reply to my letter" "prompt obedience" "was quick to respond" "a straightaway denial" Related terms |
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