immediate
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
immediate/ɪˈmiːdiət/
▶adjective
- 1 occurring or done at once.
■ most urgent; current.
- 2 nearest in time, space, or relationship.
■ (of a relation or action) direct: coronary thrombosis was the immediate cause of death.
- 3 Philosophy (of knowledge or reaction) intuitive.
– derivatives
immediateness noun.
immediateness noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. immediat, or from late L. immediatus, from in- ‘not’ + mediatus ‘intervening’, past part. of mediare (see mediate).
'immediate' also found in these Oxford entries:
ambient
- casualty department
- close
- emergency
- factory ship
- Fifth-monarchy-man
- flake
- force
- hand
- home signal
- micro-environment
- one-two
- opportunistic
- ordinary
- outside
- peremptory
- peril
- phenomenal
- physical
- pressing
- prompt
- ready
- ride
- ritenuto
- sense datum
- short-termism
- sidetrack
- standby
- stock
- strike
- stroke
- tactical
- tip-and-run
- to
- turnkey
- ulterior
- urgent
