Immediate definition

(1) Very close or connected in space or time

"Contiguous events"

"Immediate contact"

"The immediate vicinity"

"The immediate past"

(2) Having no intervening medium

"An immediate influence"

(3) Performed with little or no delay

"An immediate reply to my letter"

"Prompt obedience"

"Was quick to respond"

"A straightaway denial"

(4) Immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect

"The immediate result"

"The immediate cause of the trouble"

(5) Of the present time and place

"The immediate revisions"