1. Performed with little or no delay
   "an immediate reply to my letter";
   - prompt, quick, straightaway
    
2. Very close or connected in space or time
   "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity";
   - contiguous
    
3. Of the present time and place
   "the immediate revisions"
    
4. Having no intervening medium
   "an immediate influence"
    
5. Immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect
   "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble"

See also: close, direct, fast, immediacy, immediateness, present, proximate, unmediated

Antonym: mediate

Encyclopedia: Immediate