Definition of Immediate

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Immediate

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.

Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.

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Immediate Quotations

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Wilson Mizner

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Pope John Paul II

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
Charles Spurgeon

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Reinhold Niebuhr

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.
Joe Biden

Immediate Translations

immediate in Dutch is ogenblikkelijk, prompt
immediate in German is unmittelbar
immediate in Italian is immediato
immediate in Portuguese is imediato
immediate in Swedish is omedelbar

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