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Immediate

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

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Similar meaning 10

Close 84% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Close 84% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Direct 84% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Direct 84% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Fast 84% connected

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

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Fast 84% connected

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

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Present 84% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Present 84% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Proximate 84% connected

Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Proximate 84% connected

Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 2

Immediateness 74% connected

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Immediateness 74% connected

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Attribute 4

Immediacy 66% connected

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.

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Immediacy 66% connected

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.

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Immediateness 66% connected

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

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Immediateness 66% connected

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

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Synonym 3

Contiguous 92% connected

In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prompt 92% connected

A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Quick 92% connected

Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Mediate 94% connected

Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mediate 94% connected

Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.

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