Word Meanings - INSTANTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately. Macaulay. 2. With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. "They besought him instantly." Luke vii. 4. Syn. -- Directly; immediately; at once. See Directly.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSTANTLY)

• Directly
• Straightly
• straightway
• immediately
• undeviatingly
• at once
• promptly
• quickly
• instantly
• Forthwith
• Immediately
• directly
• instantaneously
• Without delay
• forthwith
• presently

Related words: (words related to INSTANTLY)

• PRESENTLY
  1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• INSTANTLY
  1. Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately. Macaulay. 2. With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. "They besought him instantly." Luke vii. 4. Syn. -- Directly; immediately; at once. See Directly.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• STRAIGHTWAY
  Immediately; without loss of time; without delay. He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• STRAIGHTWAYS
  Straightway.
• FORTHWITH
  As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Immediately; without delay; directly. Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith.
• IMMEDIATELY
  1. In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• QUICKLY
  Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
• DELAY
  A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay. (more
• WITHOUT
  1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
• DIRECTLY
  1. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. "To run directly on." Shak. Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak. 2. In a straightforward way; without anything intervening;
• DELAYER
  One who delays; one who lingers.
• DELAYINGLY
  By delays. Tennyson.
• DELAYMENT
  Hindrance. Gower.
• STRAIGHTLY
  In a right line; not crookedly.
• UNDIRECTLY
  Indirectly. Strype.
• ROUNDELAY
  See ROUNDEL
• INDIRECTLY
  In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly. To tax it indirectly by taxing their expense. A. Smith. Your crown and kingdom indirectly held. Shak.