forthwithformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

without delay or waiting
immediatelyPlease report to the office immediately.
nowI need you to get me that report now.
right nowYou put that back right now.
right awayIf you're going to call the doctor, you'd better do it right away - the office is closing in two minutes.
straight awayI called them back straight away.
It's some comfort to his wife to know that he died instantly and didn't suffer.
We can now communicate instantly with people on the other side of the world.我们现在可以与生活在地球另一边的人们进行即时交流。
She was knocked down by a car and killed instantly.她被车撞倒后当即死亡。
She jumps on her children instantly if they're disobedient.孩子们一不听话，她就加以责骂。
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is an instantly recognizable landmark.巴黎的埃菲尔铁塔是一眼就能认出的标志性建筑物。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Immediately
(right) off the batidiom
a stitch in time (saves nine)idiom
ado
at/in one fell swoopidiom
bat
cuff
deferrable
directly
fell
glance
instant
instantaneous
instantaneously
no sooner said than doneidiom
non-deferrable
soon
straight
swiftly
swiftness
waste

instantly | American Dictionary

instantly
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈɪn·stənt·li/
immediately:
With e-mail you can send a message across the world almost instantly.

Examples of instantly

instantly
Almost instantly the new plan was presented: a much closer clinic and earlier times - but there were two warning notes.
Halves, quarters and eighths are more instantly recognizable and appear in most early numerate cultures.
But they are not topics that spring instantly to mind as being the most exciting in social policy.
Far from hobbling the comedy, this piece of business was instantly hailed by his fellow actors as a hoot and adopted.
This relatively new technology made energy for lighting or power instantly available by the simple flick of a switch.
In any case, the students' attitudes towards areas that they were previously concerned about appear to change almost instantly with a positive piece of feedback.
This paper presents a modular distributed control technique for modular and reconfigurable robots that can instantly adapt to robot reconfigurations.
The play is both moving and humorous, and the audience instantly recognizes the characters and the situation.
However, the plasma rotation does not stop instantly.
The person who has one - or better yet, several - is instantly regarded as a cardcarrying member of the information age.
Have a glance at the title, sub-titles and topic sentences of each paragraph of an article and you instantly know its content.
You have a notion of pitch which is instantly there and which can help very much: you don't need to check the internal reference.
Meanwhile, the other women instantly transform into birds and take flight.
The teeming and diverse populace of the growing commonwealth was made instantly recognizable in the tables and charts of mandatory paperwork.
Such suggestions cannot be instantly dismissed as absurd.
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