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Antonyms for immediately
Grammar : Adv |
Spell : ih-mee-dee-it-lee |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈmi di ɪt li |
Definition of immediately
Origin :- "without intervening time or space," early 15c., from immediate + -ly (2).
- adv at once, right away
- Philothea was stooping to unlace her sandal, and she immediately picked it up.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Immediately after this they go to class-meeting at the Methodist Church.
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- We shall not achieve it immediately—but we still shall strive.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- It was immediately observed, that his attention was fixed on me.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Immediately Franks, with a stage-bow, offered Hester a chair.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- I was given a letter to Leadbitter, and immediately started on foot for the railroad.
- Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
- A physician was immediately summoned, who ordered my shackles removed.
- Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
- Immediately to the south rises the steep ridge known as the Chevin.
- Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home
- The doctor bowed; and the subject of Professor Ellis was immediately dropped.
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- The rain, as if falling through a sieve, immediately disappears.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
Synonyms for immediately
- anon
- at short notice
- away
- directly
- double-time
- forthwith
- hereupon
- in a flash
- in a jiffy
- in a New York minute
- in nothing flat
- instantaneously
- instanter
- instantly
- like now
- now
- now or never
- on the dot
- on the double
- on the spot
- PDQ
- promptly
- pronto
- rapidly
- right now
- shortly
- soon
- soon afterward
- straight away
- straight off
- summarily
- thereupon
- this instant
- this minute
- tout de suite
- unhesitatingly
- urgently
- without delay
- without hesitation
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