immediate
pronunciation
How to pronounce immediate in British English:
UK [ɪˈmiːdiət]
How to pronounce immediate in American English:
US [ɪˈmiːdiət]
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- Adjective:
- very close or connected in space or time
- having no intervening medium
- immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect
- of the present time and place
- performed with little or no delay
Word Origin
- immediate
- immediate: see medium
- immediate (adj.)
- late 14c., "intervening, interposed;" early 15c., "with nothing interposed; direct," also with reference to time, from Old French immediat, from Late Latin immediatus "without anything between," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + mediatus, past participle of mediare "to halve," later, "be in the middle," from Latin medius "middle" (see medial (adj.)).
Antonym
Example
- 1. The immediate crisis is over .
- 2. This condition requires immediate medical treatment .
- 3. The gravest and most immediate threat is to the banking system .
- 4. Mckinsey is unlikely to suffer any immediate disaster .
- 5. This immediate crisis may well pass .