🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

unmittelbar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: un-mit-tel-bar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Immediate/ɪˈmiːdiət/
adjectivenounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #450 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Das erfordert eine unmittelbare Maßnahme."

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Occurring or done at once; happening without any delay.

    "The patient requires immediate medical attention."
  2. 2

    Closest in relationship or connection; direct.

    "Her immediate family gathered to celebrate the holiday."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin word immediatus, combining the prefix in- (meaning not) and mediatus (past participle of mediare, to be in the middle). Entering the English language in the late 14th century, it originally meant acting without any intermediate agency or intervening space of time.

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