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Definition of immediate : 1. 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.
2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
3. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

Synonyms:

fast, flying, neighboring, agile, nimble, critical, contiguous, nigh, warm, direct, time, straightaway, pressing, important, clear, ready, now, urgent, next, firsthand, unmediated, live, paramount, later, spry, instant, present, conterminous, someday, primary

contemporary, contemporaneous, today's, current

hairbreadth, adjacent, nearby, local, near, neighborhood, by, close, proximate

prompt, speedy, swift, punctual, expeditious

instantaneous, precipitous, hasty, abrupt, quick, unexpected, sudden

timeless

Usage examples:

• I fell immediate, ere I was come to her. - "The Night Land", William Hope Hodgson.
• No immediate answer came to this; then, after a little,- " Mr. Holbrook, how could I tell them- to each one- about it?" - "Tip Lewis and His Lamp", Pansy.
• At first sight, it would appear as if the circumstance, that the judgment upon Judah is brought into immediate connection with that upon Israel, favoured the first view. - "Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1", Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg.