2023-08-03 17:06:42
What is immediately?
Immediately means that something is about to happen very soon, and is related to the verb stretching, to stretch.
You might eat dessert immediately after dinner or finish a project your boss asked you to work on immediately.
It therefore means to do something immediately, or close to immediately. It can also be passive, describing an immediate effect when something has happened.
While it’s not always an exact substitute for “immediately”, how soon it signifies depends entirely on the context. However, it is usually understood that it is sooner than another word, soonwhich means “soon”.
There is a bit of a grey area between the two words, though. For example, you can say I’ll be right back if you’re going to the nearest shop to get something and won’t be long, but (for obvious reasons) won’t be back immediately.
The two are nearly interchangeable, but there will be occasions when immediately doesn’t make sense as an alternative to soon, and vice versa.
Why do I need to know immediately?
It can be used both when talking about the future (“oh yes, I’ll definitely do that thing you asked me to do immediately“) and the past (“my grandmother became pregnant immediately after she married”).
You might see it used to emphasis something surprising or unexpected, like in there was immediately a different mood when the invited guest arrived (“the atmosphere changed at once when the uninvited guest arrived”), or something expected: the offer was good and was immediately accepted by the seller (“the offer was a good one and the seller accepted immediately”).
Finally, you might see it employed to describe a continuation of something. In these instances, you can’t substitute it for “immediately” if translated to English. An example of this is the great game continued immediately after the break, or “the excellent play continued unbroken after the break”.
Examples:
I’ll be right back
I’ll be there right away
It is promptly twelve o’clock
It is almost 12 o’clock
They went on honeymoon immediately after the wedding
They went on their honeymoon straight after the wedding
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