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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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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