immediate

immediate is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.
2. adjective. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
3. adjective. Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.
4. adjective. very close or connected in space or time

   "contiguous events"

   "immediate contact"

   Synonyms: contiguous

5. adjective. having no intervening medium

   "an immediate influence"

6. adjective. performed with little or no delay

   "an immediate reply to my letter"

   "a prompt reply"

   Synonyms: prompt, quick, straightaway

7. adjective. immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect

   "the immediate result"

   "the immediate cause of the trouble"

8. adjective. of the present time and place

   "the immediate revisions"

Synonyms

contiguous, prompt, quick, straightaway

Common word forms

immediately, immediateness

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for IMMEDIATE lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.