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immediately

adverbconjunctioncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɪˈmiː.di.ət.li//
  • Canada//ɪˈmi.di.ɪt.li//
  • Canada//əˈmi.di.ət.li//
  • //ɪˈmiː.d͡ʒət.li//
  • //əˈmiː.d͡ʒət.li//

In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.

adverb

  1. 1

    In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.

    I hope we can begin immediately.

    His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.

    Spain failed to move through the gears despite exerting control for lengthy spells and a measure of perspective must be applied immediately to the outcome.

    Because the body was already burned beyond recognition, detectives were not able to immediately determine its gender or identity.

  2. 2

    Without any intervening time or space.

    A tri-tone chime whistle, operated from the cab by a flexible cable passing down the right hand handrail, is mounted on the top of the smokebox immediately behind the chimney.

Etymology

From Middle English immediatly, equivalent to immediate + -ly.

conjunction

  1. 1

    As soon as, the moment that.

    Near-synonym: once

    My dog is an open book: immediately he smelled our dinner, he grew more interested in our activities.

    Immediately he saw the firm, he realised what he could do.

    Immediately you transact on the Redemption and stop the impertinence of debate, God gives you the witness.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).