immediate

Definition

  • adjective: happening or done without delay
  • adjective: acting or being without the intervention of another object, cause, or agency
  • synonyms: direct, next, proximate

Examples

  • Hospital visits are limited to 'immediate family'. [=a person's parents, brothers and sisters, husband or wife, and children]

  • Turn right onto Main Street and then take your 'immediate' left. [=quickly turn onto the next street on your left]

  • They have evacuated everyone in the 'immediate' area/vicinity of the wildfire.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) You ready? Move Louis. Officer down, officer down, Hamilton. This is detective Alex Murphy in need of immediate medical assistance. Hamilton Road. "Jack." "Jack," come on "Jack," Do you hear me? "Jack," Stay with me. (..)
    2014 RoboCop