immediate

immediate
adj.
VERBS
be, seem

The effect seems immediate.

ADVERB
almost

The painkillers brought almost immediate relief.

Immediate is used with these nouns: ↑acceptance, ↑access, ↑action, ↑aftermath, ↑aim, ↑ancestor, ↑answer, ↑appeal, ↑area, ↑assistance, ↑attention, ↑cause, ↑ceasefire, ↑circle, ↑closure, ↑confines, ↑consequence, ↑context, ↑danger, ↑death, ↑delivery, ↑descendant, ↑dislike, ↑dismissal, ↑effect, ↑enquiry, ↑environment, ↑evacuation, ↑expulsion, ↑family, ↑feedback, ↑follow-up, ↑freeze, ↑future, ↑gain, ↑goal, ↑halt, ↑heir, ↑help, ↑hit, ↑impact, ↑impetus, ↑implementation, ↑importance, ↑impression, ↑improvement, ↑interest, ↑intervention, ↑liking, ↑necessity, ↑need, ↑neighbour, ↑neighbourhood, ↑notification, ↑origin, ↑outcome, ↑outcry, ↑past, ↑payment, ↑peril, ↑plan, ↑priority, ↑problem, ↑prospect, ↑rapport, ↑reaction, ↑recognition, ↑reduction, ↑reform, ↑relative, ↑release, ↑relevance, ↑relief, ↑removal, ↑repair, ↑replacement, ↑reply, ↑resignation, ↑response, ↑retaliation, ↑return, ↑reward, ↑situation, ↑solution, ↑step, ↑success, ↑successor, ↑superior, ↑supervisor, ↑surrender, ↑surroundings, ↑suspension, ↑target, ↑task, ↑thought, ↑threat, ↑transformation, ↑treatment, ↑use, ↑vicinity, ↑withdrawal, ↑worry

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