Quick and Immediate

noun

• Any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail. )

adjective

• Accomplished rapidly and without delay.
  • usage: "was quick to make friends"; "his quick reaction prevented an accident"; "hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem"; "a speedy recovery"; "he has a right to a speedy trial"
  • synonyms: speedy
• Hurried and brief.
  • usage: "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
  • synonyms: flying, fast
• Moving quickly and lightly.
  • usage: "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"
  • synonyms: agile, nimble, spry
• Apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity.
  • usage: "a quick mind"; "a ready wit"
  • synonyms: ready
• Performed with little or no delay.
  • usage: "an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"
  • synonyms: immediate, prompt, straightaway
• Easily aroused or excited.
  • usage: "a quick temper"; "a warm temper"
  • synonyms: warm

adverb

• With little or no delay.
  • usage: "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick"
  • synonyms: promptly, quickly

• (n.) That which is quick or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn or other plants used in making a living hedge.
• (superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
• (superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.
• (v.t.&i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.
• (superl.) Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.
• (adv.) In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.
• (n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.
• (superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
• (superl.) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
• (superl.) Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.
• (superl.) Pregnant; with child.
• (n.) Quitch grass.

adjective

• Of the present time and place.
  • usage: "the immediate revisions"
• Very close or connected in space or time.
  • usage: "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past"
  • synonyms: contiguous
• Having no intervening medium.
  • usage: "an immediate influence"
• Immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect.
  • usage: "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble"
• Performed with little or no delay.
  • usage: "an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"
  • synonyms: prompt, quick, straightaway

• (a.) Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.
• (a.) Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
• (a.) 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.