What does IMMEDIATELY mean?

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. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:

    The Vehicle Safety Act prohibits manufacturers from selling vehicles with defects posing unreasonable risks to safety, including intentional design choices that are unsafe. If the information shows that a safety risk may exist, NHTSA will act immediately.

  2. Vidya Thakur:

    Mumbai Police was completely fine when Mumbai Police was admitted but we were a little worried because Mumbai Police was abandoned and found in a drain, but she was fine, our doctors immediately treated her... she was discharged yesterday, she is doing fine.

  3. The Attorney General Office:

    At this point, we don't have information that indicates that the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) isn't working as intended on our end when it comes to the ability to access information regarding individuals entered into the system. Generally speaking, law enforcement are able to access information about an individual's probation or parole status by directly querying the supervised release file via CLETS upon the arrest or detention of an individual who is suspected of having committed a crime. That information should be available immediately upon being queried.

  4. Olya Voytovich:

    The Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee is closely monitoring the situation in Afghanistan, and consistently engaging with the VA to ensure veterans have access to critical mental health resources and the Department can meet the increased demand for its services, any veteran struggling during this difficult time should know that the VA is standing by and ready to help. Veterans in crisis should immediately utilize VA’s mental health resources, including the Veterans Crisis Line that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

  5. Roger Goodell:

    When these allegations first came out, we immediately began our own investigation, we do not have an independent investigation going on at this point other than working with the other leagues and World Anti-Doping Agency( World Anti-Doping Agency).

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